Michael McNeil

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Boulder, CO, US

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

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Patterned medium and recording head
- Patent number 7,471,484
- Issue date Dec 30, 2008
- WD Media, Inc.
- David Wachenschwanz
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Flying-type disk drive slider with self-blending contact pad
- Patent number 7,262,938
- Issue date Aug 28, 2007
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Magnetic storage device with flux-guided magnetoresistive head usin...
- Patent number 7,170,719
- Issue date Jan 30, 2007
- Maxtor Corporation
- Moris M. Dovek
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Flying-type disk drive slider with self-blending contact pad
- Patent number 7,038,884
- Issue date May 2, 2006
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Patterned medium and recording head
- Patent number 7,019,924
- Issue date Mar 28, 2006
- Komag, Incorporated
- Michael McNeil
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Method to accurately predict hard error rates resulting from encroa...
- Patent number 6,975,468
- Issue date Dec 13, 2005
- Maxtor Corporation
- Thomas Oran Melrose
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Method and apparatus for increasing track density by adapting write...
- Patent number 6,940,679
- Issue date Sep 6, 2005
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Method for controlling a spin motor in a disk drive during cleaning...
- Patent number 6,687,077
- Issue date Feb 3, 2004
- Maxtor Corporation
- Jim French
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Method for cleaning a slider in a disk drive
- Patent number 6,493,168
- Issue date Dec 10, 2002
- Maxtor Corporation
- Jim French
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Disk drive with adaptive channel optimization
- Patent number 6,404,570
- Issue date Jun 11, 2002
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Method for controlling a voice coil motor in a disk drive during cl...
- Patent number 6,373,651
- Issue date Apr 16, 2002
- Jim French
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Mr head read signal preconditioning circuitry
- Patent number 6,366,417
- Issue date Apr 2, 2002
- Maxtor Corporation
- Harlan Mathews
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Method for fabricating a dual element head
- Patent number 6,094,806
- Issue date Aug 1, 2000
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Disk drive using off-track margin to obtain optimal performance par...
- Patent number 5,995,305
- Issue date Nov 30, 1999
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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MR head read signal preconditioning circuitry for reducing pulse -t...
- Patent number 5,943,177
- Issue date Aug 24, 1999
- Maxtor Corporation
- Harlan Mathews
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Disk drive head having a read wide/write narrow architecture
- Patent number 5,940,250
- Issue date Aug 17, 1999
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Self-cleaning proximity recording interface
- Patent number 5,850,321
- Issue date Dec 15, 1998
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Adaptive preamplifier for resonance tuning useful in a disk drive
- Patent number 5,671,098
- Issue date Sep 23, 1997
- Maxtor Corporation
- Harlan Mathews
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Etched erase band feature for thin film recording heads
- Patent number 5,555,482
- Issue date Sep 10, 1996
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Erase bands for vertical recording
- Patent number 5,495,379
- Issue date Feb 27, 1996
- Maxtor Corporation
- Michael McNeil
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Method of making a vertical recording head for contact and near con...
- Patent number 5,327,638
- Issue date Jul 12, 1994
- Maxtor Corporation
- William Haines
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Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Information Patent Application
Patterned medium and recording head
- Publication number 20060139814
- Publication date Jun 29, 2006
- David Wachenschwanz
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Information Patent Application
Patterned medium
- Publication number 20030179481
- Publication date Sep 25, 2003
- Michael McNeil
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Michael McNeil

Person

Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Patterned medium and recording head

Flying-type disk drive slider with self-blending contact pad

Magnetic storage device with flux-guided magnetoresistive head usin...

Flying-type disk drive slider with self-blending contact pad

Patterned medium and recording head

Method to accurately predict hard error rates resulting from encroa...

Method and apparatus for increasing track density by adapting write...

Method for controlling a spin motor in a disk drive during cleaning...

Method for cleaning a slider in a disk drive

Disk drive with adaptive channel optimization

Method for controlling a voice coil motor in a disk drive during cl...

Mr head read signal preconditioning circuitry

Method for fabricating a dual element head

Disk drive using off-track margin to obtain optimal performance par...

MR head read signal preconditioning circuitry for reducing pulse -t...

Disk drive head having a read wide/write narrow architecture

Self-cleaning proximity recording interface

Adaptive preamplifier for resonance tuning useful in a disk drive

Etched erase band feature for thin film recording heads

Erase bands for vertical recording

Method of making a vertical recording head for contact and near con...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

Patterned medium and recording head

Patterned medium