Brian K. Tanner

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San Jose, CA, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Data storage device employing smart braking to unload multiple voic...
- Patent number 9,972,348
- Issue date May 15, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Timothy A. Ferris
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Data storage device employing delayed braking to unload multiple vo...
- Patent number 9,940,958
- Issue date Apr 10, 2018
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Toshihisa Kiyonaga
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Head actuator velocity control for electrical power off in a disk d...
- Patent number 8,179,640
- Issue date May 15, 2012
- Seagate Technology International
- Brian K. Tanner
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Method and apparatus for detecting rapid off track following and pr...
- Patent number 8,174,785
- Issue date May 8, 2012
- Seagate Technology International
- Brian K. Tanner
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Method and apparatus for adaptive control and/or use of a vibration...
- Patent number 8,077,420
- Issue date Dec 13, 2011
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Method and apparatus for adaptive gain balancing of at least one of...
- Patent number 7,864,483
- Issue date Jan 4, 2011
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Disk drive apparatus having shock adaptive filters
- Patent number 7,480,112
- Issue date Jan 20, 2009
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Brian K. Tanner
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Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...
- Patent number 7,479,713
- Issue date Jan 20, 2009
- Panasonic Corporation
- Brian K. Tanner
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Voice coil motor effective resistance determination
- Patent number 7,468,859
- Issue date Dec 23, 2008
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Fred R. Hansen
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Shock feed forward adaptive filters
- Patent number 7,453,660
- Issue date Nov 18, 2008
- Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Brian K. Tanner
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Current pulsing for unloading
- Patent number 7,436,616
- Issue date Oct 14, 2008
- Toshiba Corporation
- Fred R. Hansen
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Systems and methods for dynamically affecting power dissipation in...
- Patent number 7,375,441
- Issue date May 20, 2008
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...
- Patent number 7,170,707
- Issue date Jan 30, 2007
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Spindle speed control using feed-forward estimation in a hard disk...
- Patent number 7,136,248
- Issue date Nov 14, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...
- Patent number 7,068,455
- Issue date Jun 27, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...
- Patent number 7,035,032
- Issue date Apr 25, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Method for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk dr...
- Patent number 7,009,354
- Issue date Mar 7, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Apparatus for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk...
- Patent number 7,005,820
- Issue date Feb 28, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device
- Patent number 7,002,884
- Issue date Feb 21, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Direct detection of coil resistance
- Patent number 6,917,486
- Issue date Jul 12, 2005
- Matsushita Electrical Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian Tanner
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Method of calibrating a write current-setting for servo writing a d...
- Patent number 6,525,892
- Issue date Feb 25, 2003
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Gary L. Dunbar
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Velocity control method for ramp unloading heads off of disks in a...
- Patent number 6,512,650
- Issue date Jan 28, 2003
- Brian Tanner
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Disk drive including N-current preamplifier for generating N-indepe...
- Patent number 6,310,740
- Issue date Oct 30, 2001
- Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Gary L. Dunbar
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Disk drive with staggered calibration bursts that are disposably lo...
- Patent number 6,198,584
- Issue date Mar 6, 2001
- Western Digital Corporation
- Raffi Codilian
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Hybrid method of determining a fractional track position of a read...
- Patent number 6,122,133
- Issue date Sep 19, 2000
- Western Digital Corporation
- Ara W. Nazarian
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Method of seamlessly recording circumferentially successive servo b...
- Patent number 5,946,157
- Issue date Aug 31, 1999
- Western Digital Corporation
- Raffi Codilian
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Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

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HARD DISK DRIVE SYSTEM WITH OFF TRACK DETECTION MECHANISM AND METHO...
- Publication number 20130114162
- Publication date May 9, 2013
- Tao Zhang
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING RAPID OF TRACK FOLLOWING AND PRO...
- Publication number 20110069415
- Publication date Mar 24, 2011
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE GAIN BALANCING OF AT LEAST ONE OF...
- Publication number 20100246052
- Publication date Sep 30, 2010
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHOCK AND ROTATIONAL VIBRATION SENSING IN...
- Publication number 20100208575
- Publication date Aug 19, 2010
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
HEAD ACTUATOR VELOCITY CONTROL FOR ELECTRICAL POWER OFF IN A DISK D...
- Publication number 20100149695
- Publication date Jun 17, 2010
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Method and apparatus for adaptive control and/or use of a vibration...
- Publication number 20090279198
- Publication date Nov 12, 2009
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Disk drive apparatus having shock adaptive filters
- Publication number 20080239546
- Publication date Oct 2, 2008
- TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
ADJUSTABLE OUTPUT VOLTAGE REGULATOR FOR DISK DRIVE
- Publication number 20070279790
- Publication date Dec 6, 2007
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
CURRENT PULSING FOR UNLOADING
- Publication number 20070279793
- Publication date Dec 6, 2007
- Fred R. T. Hansen
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Information Patent Application
VOICE COIL MOTOR EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE DETERMINATION
- Publication number 20070279797
- Publication date Dec 6, 2007
- TOSHIBA AMERICA INFORMATION SYSTEMS, INC.
- Fred R. Hansen
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Information Patent Application
SHOCK FEED FORWARD ADAPTIVE FILTERS
- Publication number 20070279792
- Publication date Dec 6, 2007
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Spindle speed control using feed-forward estimation in a hard disk...
- Publication number 20060187566
- Publication date Aug 24, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...
- Publication number 20060103965
- Publication date May 18, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...
- Publication number 20060098556
- Publication date May 11, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Systems and methods for dynamically affecting power dissipation in...
- Publication number 20060097708
- Publication date May 11, 2006
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Operating a rotatable media storage device at multiple spin-speeds
- Publication number 20050141375
- Publication date Jun 30, 2005
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
- Richard M. Ehrlich
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Information Patent Application
Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...
- Publication number 20050018339
- Publication date Jan 27, 2005
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...
- Publication number 20050018340
- Publication date Jan 27, 2005
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Direct detection of coil resistance
- Publication number 20050013037
- Publication date Jan 20, 2005
- Brian Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Apparatus for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk...
- Publication number 20040124799
- Publication date Jul 1, 2004
- Brian K. Tanner
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Information Patent Application
Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device
- Publication number 20040125727
- Publication date Jul 1, 2004
- Thorsten Schmidt
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Information Patent Application
Method for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk dr...
- Publication number 20040124800
- Publication date Jul 1, 2004
- Brian K. Tanner
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Brian K. Tanner

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Data storage device employing smart braking to unload multiple voic...

Data storage device employing delayed braking to unload multiple vo...

Head actuator velocity control for electrical power off in a disk d...

Method and apparatus for detecting rapid off track following and pr...

Method and apparatus for adaptive control and/or use of a vibration...

Method and apparatus for adaptive gain balancing of at least one of...

Disk drive apparatus having shock adaptive filters

Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...

Voice coil motor effective resistance determination

Shock feed forward adaptive filters

Current pulsing for unloading

Systems and methods for dynamically affecting power dissipation in...

Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...

Spindle speed control using feed-forward estimation in a hard disk...

Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...

Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...

Method for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk dr...

Apparatus for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk...

Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device

Direct detection of coil resistance

Method of calibrating a write current-setting for servo writing a d...

Velocity control method for ramp unloading heads off of disks in a...

Disk drive including N-current preamplifier for generating N-indepe...

Disk drive with staggered calibration bursts that are disposably lo...

Hybrid method of determining a fractional track position of a read...

Method of seamlessly recording circumferentially successive servo b...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

HARD DISK DRIVE SYSTEM WITH OFF TRACK DETECTION MECHANISM AND METHO...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING RAPID OF TRACK FOLLOWING AND PRO...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE GAIN BALANCING OF AT LEAST ONE OF...

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHOCK AND ROTATIONAL VIBRATION SENSING IN...

HEAD ACTUATOR VELOCITY CONTROL FOR ELECTRICAL POWER OFF IN A DISK D...

Method and apparatus for adaptive control and/or use of a vibration...

Disk drive apparatus having shock adaptive filters

ADJUSTABLE OUTPUT VOLTAGE REGULATOR FOR DISK DRIVE

CURRENT PULSING FOR UNLOADING

VOICE COIL MOTOR EFFECTIVE RESISTANCE DETERMINATION

SHOCK FEED FORWARD ADAPTIVE FILTERS

Spindle speed control using feed-forward estimation in a hard disk...

Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...

Systems and methods for reducing power dissipation in a disk drive...

Systems and methods for dynamically affecting power dissipation in...

Operating a rotatable media storage device at multiple spin-speeds

Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...

Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable med...

Direct detection of coil resistance

Apparatus for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk...

Intermediate power down mode for a rotatable media data storage device

Method for spindle bearing friction estimation for reliable disk dr...