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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Information Patent Grant
Head velocity derating for data storage devices including disk media
- Patent number 12,223,982
- Issue date Feb 11, 2025
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Hiroshi Uchida
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding control circuit...
- Patent number 12,119,024
- Issue date Oct 15, 2024
- STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
- Ezio Galbiati
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Zero skew elevator system
- Patent number 11,948,612
- Issue date Apr 2, 2024
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Riyan Alex Mendonsa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Load/unload ramp for high-capacity hard disk drive
- Patent number 11,869,541
- Issue date Jan 9, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Taichi Nakamura
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Moveable ramp for data storage device
- Patent number 11,756,579
- Issue date Sep 12, 2023
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Brett R. Herdendorf
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Disk device with ramps
- Patent number 11,749,308
- Issue date Sep 5, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Yasuhiko Kato
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Disk device
- Patent number 11,600,298
- Issue date Mar 7, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Yasuhiko Kato
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Disk device and method of manufacturing disk device
- Patent number 11,574,653
- Issue date Feb 7, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Manabu Uehara
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Managing unexpected shutdown in a disk drive with multiple actuator...
- Patent number 11,455,250
- Issue date Sep 27, 2022
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Bryce L. DeClercq
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Grant
Zero skew elevator system
- Patent number 11,348,611
- Issue date May 31, 2022
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Riyan Alex Mendonsa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Load/unload ramps with channels
- Patent number 11,341,993
- Issue date May 24, 2022
- Seagate Technology LLC
- YiChao Ma
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Drive controller-override mechanism
- Patent number 11,335,376
- Issue date May 17, 2022
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Riyan Alex Mendonsa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Retractable ramp for data storage devices
- Patent number 11,308,984
- Issue date Apr 19, 2022
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Brett R. Herdendorf
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Disc device with head placement responsive to shock detection
- Patent number 11,114,125
- Issue date Sep 7, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Masami Yamane
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Split ramp for data storage devices
- Patent number 11,094,347
- Issue date Aug 17, 2021
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Brett R. Herdendorf
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Suspension assembly with limiter and disk drive
- Patent number 11,074,932
- Issue date Jul 27, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Yasuo Suzuki
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Methods of measuring friction between a slider and ramp, and relate...
- Patent number 10,989,649
- Issue date Apr 27, 2021
- Seagate Technology LLC
- Jian Chen
- G01 - MEASURING TESTING
Information Patent Grant
Vertically translating load/unload ramp mechanism for cold storage...
- Patent number 10,971,178
- Issue date Apr 6, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Jon M. Garbarino
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Angled and elongate lift tab for magnetic storage device
- Patent number 10,950,263
- Issue date Mar 16, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Kia Moh Teo
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Eliminating lead screw hysteresis for vertically translating load/u...
- Patent number 10,916,271
- Issue date Feb 9, 2021
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Jon Jacoby
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device employing dynamic track trajectories
- Patent number 10,748,568
- Issue date Aug 18, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Alain Chahwan
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Vertically translating load/unload ramp mechanism for cold storage...
- Patent number 10,706,879
- Issue date Jul 7, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Jon M. Garbarino
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Information processing apparatus, control method thereof and storag...
- Patent number 10,573,345
- Issue date Feb 25, 2020
- Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Tatsuya Ogawa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Control device, magnetic disk control system, and control method fo...
- Patent number 10,056,107
- Issue date Aug 21, 2018
- RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Minoru Kurosawa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device detecting minimum stable fly height of a head o...
- Patent number 9,786,309
- Issue date Oct 10, 2017
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Bernhard E. Knigge
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device detecting lasing threshold of laser by measurin...
- Patent number 9,786,310
- Issue date Oct 10, 2017
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Hans J. Richter
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Data storage device optimizing spindle motor power when transitioni...
- Patent number 9,761,266
- Issue date Sep 12, 2017
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Michael T. Nicholls
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Semiconductor integrated circuit and operating method for the same
- Patent number 9,502,060
- Issue date Nov 22, 2016
- Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Hideho Koyama
- H02 - GENERATION CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER
Information Patent Grant
Correction value calculating method, manufacturing method of disk d...
- Patent number 9,466,330
- Issue date Oct 11, 2016
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Ryuzo Nishihara
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Grant
Magnetic head providing write protrusion suppression and methods of...
- Patent number 9,245,581
- Issue date Jan 26, 2016
- HGST Netherlands B.V.
- Koji Tanaka
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
HARD DISK DRIVES WITH PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASONIC MOTOR
- Publication number 20240412762
- Publication date Dec 12, 2024
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- YiChao Ma
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
RAMP SUPPORT FOR A MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE
- Publication number 20240386910
- Publication date Nov 21, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Katsuhiko Ohta
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
SINGLE ARM STEPPER ELEVATION SYSTEM
- Publication number 20240221780
- Publication date Jul 4, 2024
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- YiChao Ma
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHOD OF OPERATING HARD DISK DRIVES, CORRESPONDING CONTROL CIRCUIT...
- Publication number 20240096371
- Publication date Mar 21, 2024
- STMicroelectronics S.r.l
- Ezio Galbiati
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
LOAD/UNLOAD RAMP FOR HIGH-CAPACITY HARD DISK DRIVE
- Publication number 20240021215
- Publication date Jan 18, 2024
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Taichi Nakamura
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DEVICE WITH RAMPS
- Publication number 20230088522
- Publication date Mar 23, 2023
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Yasuhiko Kato
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ZERO SKEW ELEVATOR SYSTEM
- Publication number 20230005502
- Publication date Jan 5, 2023
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Riyan Alex Mendonsa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISK DEVICE
- Publication number 20220399041
- Publication date Dec 15, 2022
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Manabu UEHARA
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ZERO SKEW ELEVATOR SYSTEM
- Publication number 20220335970
- Publication date Oct 20, 2022
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Riyan Alex Mendonsa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DEVICE
- Publication number 20220310124
- Publication date Sep 29, 2022
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Yasuhiko Kato
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISC DEVICE WITH HEAD PLACEMENT RESPONSIVE TO SHOCK DETECTION
- Publication number 20210257002
- Publication date Aug 19, 2021
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Masami Yamane
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MANAGING UNEXPECTED SHUTDOWN IN A DISK DRIVE WITH MULTIPLE ACTUATOR...
- Publication number 20210004327
- Publication date Jan 7, 2021
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Bryce L. DeClercq
- G06 - COMPUTING CALCULATING COUNTING
Information Patent Application
Vertically Translating Load/Unload Ramp Mechanism For Cold Storage...
- Publication number 20200302959
- Publication date Sep 24, 2020
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Jon M. Garbarino
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAG...
- Publication number 20190304505
- Publication date Oct 3, 2019
- Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Tatsuya Ogawa
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC DISK CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FO...
- Publication number 20180096704
- Publication date Apr 5, 2018
- RENESAS ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
- Minoru KUROSAWA
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC HEAD INCLUDING TWO CONTACT SENSORS
- Publication number 20150235659
- Publication date Aug 20, 2015
- SAE MAGNETICS (H. K) LTD.
- Yoshitaka SASAKI
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
METHODS AND DEVICES FOR HEAD-MEDIA CONTACT DETECTION
- Publication number 20150103432
- Publication date Apr 16, 2015
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Huazhou Lou
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
WRITE CURRENT AND FLY HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT FOR COMPENSATING MEDIA COER...
- Publication number 20150036235
- Publication date Feb 5, 2015
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Abhishek Dhanda
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
AIR BEARING SURFACE HAVING TEMPERATURE/HUMIDITY COMPENSATION FEATURE
- Publication number 20150015989
- Publication date Jan 15, 2015
- SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
- Igor Sytine
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC HEAD PROVIDING WRITE PROTRUSION SUPPRESSION AND METHODS OF...
- Publication number 20140362674
- Publication date Dec 11, 2014
- Koji Tanaka
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
BACK ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE MONITORING CIRCUIT, MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE, MA...
- Publication number 20140340783
- Publication date Nov 20, 2014
- Rohm Co., Ltd.
- Shinichi MIURA
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DRIVE
- Publication number 20140265966
- Publication date Sep 18, 2014
- TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
- Masaki Yamashita
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
CALIBRATION OF RAMP LOCATION IN A DISK DRIVE EMPLOYING SPIRAL-BASED...
- Publication number 20140226227
- Publication date Aug 14, 2014
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Gabor SZITA
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ERROR RECOVERY BASED ON APPLYING CURRENT/VOLTAGE TO A HEATING ELEME...
- Publication number 20140226237
- Publication date Aug 14, 2014
- HGST NETHERLANDS B.V.
- Yukimasa Okada
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE, MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC AP...
- Publication number 20140078613
- Publication date Mar 20, 2014
- ROHM CO., LTD.
- Yoshito OTAGURO
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
CIRCUITRY FOR CONTROLLING A VOICE COIL MOTOR
- Publication number 20140063641
- Publication date Mar 6, 2014
- STMicroelectronics S.r. I.
- Ezio Galbiati
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
DISK DRIVE
- Publication number 20140001994
- Publication date Jan 2, 2014
- Masaki Yamashita
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
Fly Height Extraction System
- Publication number 20130222942
- Publication date Aug 29, 2013
- International Business Machines Corporation
- Robert Glenn Biskeborn
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
ERROR RECOVERY BASED ON APPLYING CURRENT/VOLTAGE TO A HEATING ELEME...
- Publication number 20130141814
- Publication date Jun 6, 2013
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
- Yukimasa Okada
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE
Information Patent Application
MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF HEAD
- Publication number 20130070368
- Publication date Mar 21, 2013
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Shinji Takakura
- G11 - INFORMATION STORAGE

Raising and lowering Back-spacing or forward-spacing along track Returning to starting position otherwise than during transducing operation

Industry

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Current Industry

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Head velocity derating for data storage devices including disk media

Method of operating hard disk drives, corresponding control circuit...

Zero skew elevator system

Load/unload ramp for high-capacity hard disk drive

Moveable ramp for data storage device

Disk device with ramps

Disk device

Disk device and method of manufacturing disk device

Managing unexpected shutdown in a disk drive with multiple actuator...

Zero skew elevator system

Load/unload ramps with channels

Drive controller-override mechanism

Retractable ramp for data storage devices

Disc device with head placement responsive to shock detection

Split ramp for data storage devices

Suspension assembly with limiter and disk drive

Methods of measuring friction between a slider and ramp, and relate...

Vertically translating load/unload ramp mechanism for cold storage...

Angled and elongate lift tab for magnetic storage device

Eliminating lead screw hysteresis for vertically translating load/u...

Data storage device employing dynamic track trajectories

Vertically translating load/unload ramp mechanism for cold storage...

Information processing apparatus, control method thereof and storag...

Control device, magnetic disk control system, and control method fo...

Data storage device detecting minimum stable fly height of a head o...

Data storage device detecting lasing threshold of laser by measurin...

Data storage device optimizing spindle motor power when transitioni...

Semiconductor integrated circuit and operating method for the same

Correction value calculating method, manufacturing method of disk d...

Magnetic head providing write protrusion suppression and methods of...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

HARD DISK DRIVES WITH PIEZOELECTRIC ULTRASONIC MOTOR

RAMP SUPPORT FOR A MAGNETIC STORAGE DEVICE

SINGLE ARM STEPPER ELEVATION SYSTEM

METHOD OF OPERATING HARD DISK DRIVES, CORRESPONDING CONTROL CIRCUIT...

LOAD/UNLOAD RAMP FOR HIGH-CAPACITY HARD DISK DRIVE

DISK DEVICE WITH RAMPS

ZERO SKEW ELEVATOR SYSTEM

DISK DEVICE AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING DISK DEVICE

ZERO SKEW ELEVATOR SYSTEM

DISK DEVICE

DISC DEVICE WITH HEAD PLACEMENT RESPONSIVE TO SHOCK DETECTION

MANAGING UNEXPECTED SHUTDOWN IN A DISK DRIVE WITH MULTIPLE ACTUATOR...

Vertically Translating Load/Unload Ramp Mechanism For Cold Storage...

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND STORAG...

CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC DISK CONTROL SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD FO...

MAGNETIC HEAD INCLUDING TWO CONTACT SENSORS

METHODS AND DEVICES FOR HEAD-MEDIA CONTACT DETECTION

WRITE CURRENT AND FLY HEIGHT ADJUSTMENT FOR COMPENSATING MEDIA COER...

AIR BEARING SURFACE HAVING TEMPERATURE/HUMIDITY COMPENSATION FEATURE

MAGNETIC HEAD PROVIDING WRITE PROTRUSION SUPPRESSION AND METHODS OF...

BACK ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE MONITORING CIRCUIT, MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE, MA...

DISK DRIVE

CALIBRATION OF RAMP LOCATION IN A DISK DRIVE EMPLOYING SPIRAL-BASED...

ERROR RECOVERY BASED ON APPLYING CURRENT/VOLTAGE TO A HEATING ELEME...

MOTOR DRIVE DEVICE, MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC AP...

CIRCUITRY FOR CONTROLLING A VOICE COIL MOTOR

DISK DRIVE

Fly Height Extraction System

ERROR RECOVERY BASED ON APPLYING CURRENT/VOLTAGE TO A HEATING ELEME...

MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD OF HEAD