William J Klimowicz

US Patent 11170806 Magnetic sensor array with single TMR film plus laser annealing and characterization

US Patent 7089570 Optical disc changer

US Patent 7095585 Hard disk drive for perpendicular recording with transducer having submicron gap between pole tips

US Patent 7095586 Soft magnetic film having saturation magnetic flux density Bs of at least 2.0 T and magnetic head including the same

US Patent 7099110 Dead on demand disk technology

US Patent 7099112 Balance ring

US Patent 7099121 Perpendicular magnetic recording head having a reduced field under the return pole and minimal eddy current losses

US Patent 7102855 Microelectronic device with closely spaced contact studs

US Patent 7103896 Mechanism to aid optical beam focusing on optical disc

US Patent 7106553 Hard disk drive having a disk fluttering reducing unit that uses an air damping effect to reduce the fluttering of a rotation disk

US Patent 7106561 Current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistive sensor with free layer stabilized by in-stack orthogonal magnetic coupling to an antiparallel pinned biasing layer

US Patent 7107600 System and method for cleaning electrical delivery systems

US Patent 7107604 Disk cartridge

US Patent 7110221 Disk drive

US Patent 7116521 Head slider and disk drive employing same head slider, and method for providing water repellent treatment to same head slider

US Patent 7116522 System and method related to a flexible circuit

US Patent 7123439 Aerodynamic diffuser, contraction, and fairing for disk base and re-acceleration drag reduction in hard disk drives

US Patent 7127730 Optical pickup head adjusting mechanism for optical disc drive

US Patent 7127731 Apparatus for reading information, supporting means for use in the apparatus and method for rotating a date carrier

US Patent 7130157 Head suspension having a displacement limiter

US Patent 7133254 Magnetic recording head with heating device

US Patent 7133257 Control of twist, crown and camber for sliders using location sensitive scribing

US Patent 7142393 Magnetic head and magnetic disk apparatus

US Patent 7142394 Method and apparatus for an improved magnetic head arm assembly

US Patent 7142395 Method for making noble metal conductive leads for suspension assemblies

US Patent 7149171 Apparatus for writing data and method for generating DVD format data

US Patent 7150027 Transfer device for information carriers

US Patent 7154705 Magnetic head for rotary head drum

US Patent 7154707 Thin film magnetic head and magnetic recording apparatus

US Patent 7154716 Tunnel valve free layer stabilization system and method using additional current in lead

US Patent 7154822 Optical disc recording control method, drive, and recording system for recording data in a pre-gap, all tracks, a lead-out area, a lead-in area, and a program memory area

US Patent 7158342 Hard disk drive with aerodynamic diffuser, contraction, and fairing for disk base and re-acceleration drag reduction

US Patent 7158354 Dual-type magnetic detecting element in which free magnetic layer and pinned magnetic layer have suitably selected β values

US Patent 7158355 Magneto-resistance effect element, magneto-resistance effect head, magneto-resistance transducer system, and magnetic storage system

US Patent 7159227 CD-ROM drive capable of rapidly detaching and installing

US Patent 7161767 Wireless suspension design with ground plane structure

US Patent 7161768 Disk drive including an orthogonally disposed actuator coil and an E-shaped voice coil motor yoke for supporting a pair of voice coil magnets

US Patent 7161773 High linear density tunnel junction flux guide read head with in-stack longitudinal bias stack (LBS)

US Patent 7161774 Magneto-resistance effect element, magneto-resistance effect head, magneto-resistance transducer system, and magnetic storage system

US Patent 7168082 Optical actuator

US Patent 7170710 Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus

US Patent 7170711 Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus

US Patent 7170717 Head suspension assembly and disk drive using the same

US Patent 7170721 Method of producing flux guides in magnetic recording heads

US Patent 7171676 Stamper for producing optical recording medium, optical recording medium, and methods of producing the same

US Patent 7174558 Memory device

US Patent 7177247 Optical disc recording control method, drive, and recording system

US Patent 7180698 Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus

US Patent 7180706 Magnetic heads and semiconductor devices and surface planarization processes for the fabrication thereof

US Patent 7180707 Thin-film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive

US Patent 7180709 Information-storage media with dissimilar outer diameter and/or inner diameter chamfer designs on two sides

US Patent 7185351 Cartridge for an information recording medium

US Patent 7187523 Method of marking sintered body and method for manufacturing magnetic head wafer

US Patent 7187525 Magnetoresistive device and method for manufacturing same

US Patent 7190549 Slim spindle motor and micro-drive apparatus comprising the same

US Patent 7190560 Self-pinned CPP sensor using Fe/Cr/Fe structure

US Patent 7191459 Adapter for non-circular disc

US Patent 7191460 Disk protection casing and drive for receiving the same

US Patent 7193814 Pole piece for high track density recording

US Patent 7193821 Thin film magnetic head and method for manufacturing the same

US Patent 7193823 Magnetoresistive device exhibiting small and stable bias fields independent of device size variation

US Patent 7196872 Sliders bonded by a debondable encapsulant comprising different polymers formed via in situ polymerization

US Patent 7196881 Adaptive domain stabilization for magnetic recording read sensors

US Patent 7199984 Current-perpendicular-to-plane magnetoresistive sensor with free layer stabilized by in-stack orthogonal magnetic coupling

US Patent 7203030 System, method, and apparatus for aerodynamic diverter integrated with a diffuser in a bypass channel for applications in a disk storage device

US Patent 7206166 Thin film magnetic head and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7206172 Electrical lapping guide embedded in a shield of a magnetic head

US Patent 7209315 Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus

US Patent 7209326 Magnetoresistive head and manufacturing method thereof

US Patent 7210149 Disc insertion preventive device

US Patent 7210156 Disk cartridge

US Patent 7212375 Automated storage library gripper apparatus and method

US Patent 7213253 Optical recording medium and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7215505 Pole base assembly for magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7215509 Pop-on disc clamp for a data storage device

US Patent 7215513 Disk drive including a one-piece stamped actuator arm assembly and method of making same

US Patent 7218473 Two-stage sealing of a data storage assembly housing to retain a low density atmosphere

US Patent 7218475 Thin film magnetic head and magnetic recording apparatus

US Patent 7218480 Magnetic detent for transducer positioning mechanism

US Patent 7221537 Plastic spacer and disk clamp assembly

US Patent 7221538 Thin film perpendicular magnetic recording head, their fabrication process and magnetic disk drive using it

US Patent 7221545 High HC reference layer structure for self-pinned GMR heads

US Patent 7222352 Cartridge for an information recording medium

US Patent 7224550 Hard disk drive device and method of assembling the hard disk drive device

US Patent 7225452 Optical head

US Patent 7227717 Asymmetric disk surface properties in one head disk drives

US Patent 7227724 Head actuator assembly for a tape drive

US Patent 7227725 Head stack assembly with locking pins for retaining flex cable

US Patent 7227727 Method and apparatus for a side-by-side thin film head with minimal separation between the read and write structures

US Patent 7230798 Head support device and disk drive using the same

US Patent 7230805 Semiconductor slider with an integral spin valve transistor structure and method for making same without a bonding step

US Patent 7234151 Disk player

US Patent 7236336 Method and apparatus for providing a free layer having higher saturation field capability and optimum sensitivity

US Patent 7239479 Thin film magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof

US Patent 7239488 MR sensor on an insulating substrate and method of manufacture

US Patent 7243357 Disk device

US Patent 7243361 Disk cartridge

US Patent 7245456 Head support device and disk drive using the same

US Patent 7248431 Method of fabricating a perpendicular recording write head having a gap with two portions

US Patent 7248434 Planarized perpendicular pole tip system and method for manufacturing the same

US Patent 7248436 Thin film magnetic head and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7248444 Electromagnetic heads, flexures, gimbals and actuators formed on and from a wafer substrate

US Patent 7249364 Methods and systems for scaling and rotating an image in a single operation

US Patent 7251102 ABS through aggressive stitching

US Patent 7253991 Planar perpendicular recording head

US Patent 7254819 Recording medium drive unit

US Patent 7254822 Disk drive avoiding flying disk

US Patent 7256971 Process and structure to fabricate CPP spin valve heads for ultra-high recording density

US Patent 7257827 Optical disk drive assembly that is rotatable with respect to a computer casing

US Patent 7257829 Optical reproducing/recording apparatus

US Patent 7265939 Spindle motor and disk drive unit

US Patent 7265948 Magnetoresistive element with oxide magnetic layers and metal magnetic films deposited thereon

US Patent 7265949 Magneto-resistance effect element, magneto-resistance effect head, magneto-resistance transducer system, and magnetic storage system

US Patent 7268974 Magnetic write head having a notched yoke structure with a trailing shield and method of making the same

US Patent 7268975 High data rate writer with low resistance coil and short yoke

US Patent 7268981 Spin valve sensor having antiferromagnetic (AFM) pinning layer structures formed in the end regions

US Patent 7272840 Objective lens driving apparatus used with an optical pickup

US Patent 7274531 Extendable storage bin mounting for automatic storage library

US Patent 7277258 Dual-stage actuator disk drive with optimal location of the movable portion of the secondary actuator

US Patent 7277261 Magneto-resistance effect element, magneto-resistance effect head, magneto-resistance transducer system, and magnetic storage system

US Patent 7280313 High aspect ratio co-planar structure fabrication consisting of different materials

US Patent 7280324 Magnetoresistive sensor having improved antiparallel tab free layer biasing

US Patent 7281255 Disc guiding mechanism

US Patent 7281256 Disk transport mechanism for a disk drive

US Patent 7283332 Suspension with improved gimbal

US Patent 7283335 Magnetic detecting element

US Patent 7284249 Orientation of drive mechanics to allow for disc loading in an off-axis position

US Patent 7286321 Thin film magnetic head having toroidal coil and manufacturing method of the same

US Patent 7287265 Disk cartridge

US Patent 7289293 Perpendicular recording magnetic disk apparatus

US Patent 7290273 Disc cartridge

US Patent 7292406 Disk drive including a spindle motor and a pivot bearing cartridge attached to different layers of a laminated cover

US Patent 7298596 Magneto-resistance effect element, magneto-resistance effect head, magneto-resistance transducer system, and magnetic storage system

US Patent 7301735 Higher flip threshold structure for in-stack bias layer

US Patent 7304821 Magnetic head coil structure and method for manufacturing the same

US Patent 7305682 Sensor mechanism for detecting tray in/out motion

US Patent 7305685 Inserting and extracting device for rotatable data carrier plates

US Patent 7305687 Apparatus for supporting a storage container

US Patent 7305688 Tilting movement optical pickup actuator and optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus using the same and method

US Patent 7307817 Disk drive suspension with limiter feature

US Patent 7307818 Method and system for providing a stable spin filter

US Patent 7308692 Feed roller, optical disk carrying unit and optical disk recording/playback device

US Patent 7312952 Thin-film magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording

US Patent 7312953 Head suspension assembly and disk drive using the same

US Patent 7312958 Method for manufacturing magnetic disk apparatus

US Patent 7313801 Disk-chucking device of disk drive

US Patent 7317596 Magnetic recording disk drive having read head with high cross-track resolution and disk with low bit-aspect-ratio

US Patent 7324304 Tapered write pole for reduced skew effect

US Patent 7327535 Hybrid coating for magnetic heads

US Patent 7328441 Optical disc drive

US Patent 7328442 Robotic corner negotiating systems and methods for automated storage libraries

US Patent 7328444 Shaft support mechanism of optical disk drive and skew adjustment mechanism of optical disk drive

US Patent 7334239 Optical disc apparatus

US Patent 7336440 Magnetic disc unit with gap between magnetic disc and shroud

US Patent 7340753 Disk drive

US Patent 7342748 System with matrix array of write heads and matrix array of magnetoresistive (MR) read heads

US Patent 7345847 Tape cartridge

US Patent 7345849 Magnetic head slider material, magnetic head slider, and method of manufacturing magnetic head slider material

US Patent 7345852 Magnetoresistive element and magnetic memory device

US Patent 7345987 Optical disc which stores digital information in informational units which diffract a line of laser light at one of 1024 angles and a corresponding light detecting apparatus for reproducing information from said optical disc

US Patent 7349177 Cartridge loading devices

US Patent 7352531 Head slider having a flat first step and a second flat step with a groove therein, and disk drive employing the head slider

US Patent 7352541 CPP GMR using Fe based synthetic free layer

US Patent 7355815 Recording medium cartridge and recording/reproducing apparatus thereof

US Patent 7355820 Head drum assembly for tape recorder and method of assembling the same

US Patent 7356827 Disk cartridge

US Patent 7359144 Overmold component seal in an electronic device housing

US Patent 7359155 Slider, head assembly and disk apparatus

US Patent 7360228 Multi-stack optical data storage medium and use of such medium

US Patent 7362541 Two-stage sealing of a data storage assembly housing to retain a low density atmosphere

US Patent 7365940 Hard disk drive device, and fluid dynamic bearing spindle motor and assembling method thereof

US Patent 7365942 Thin-film magnetic head

US Patent 7369375 Magneto-resistance effect element and magneto-resistance effect head

US Patent 7370341 Disk driving apparatus and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7372668 Recording and/or reproducing device having a positioning arrangement for positioning a cleaning brush

US Patent 7372669 Magnetic disk drive, wiring connection structure and terminal structure

US Patent 7375920 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7375927 Laminated headlift structure for disk drive suspensions

US Patent 7379263 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7380256 Disk device

US Patent 7382587 Magnetic head having self-pinned SV structures for CPP GMR applications

US Patent 7385788 Carriage assembly of a hard disk drive

US Patent 7385789 Magnetostrictive actuator in a magnetic head

US Patent 7386866 Disk drive with improved tray control

US Patent 7388733 Method for making noble metal conductive leads for suspension assemblies

US Patent 7392529 Optical disc drive

US Patent 7392578 Thin film magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof

US Patent 7397631 Stamped stators for disk drives

US Patent 7398538 Pickup unit homing mechanism for a disk drive unit

US Patent 7400474 Conductive pairing for piggyback magnetic head

US Patent 7401343 Disk apparatus

US Patent 7403355 Information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and stamper

US Patent 7403358 Thin film magnetic head, magnetic head device, magnetic recording/reproducing device and method for fabricating a thin film magnetic head

US Patent 7404197 Disk drive

US Patent 7408736 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7408746 Magnetoresistive device and method of manufacturing same, thin-film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly and magnetic disk drive

US Patent 7409698 Optical disc case usable in player with disc encased therein

US Patent 7411763 Electrical connection between a suspension flexure cable and a head stack assembly flexible circuit

US Patent 7411764 Head gimbal assembly with precise positioning actuator for read/write head and disk drive device with the head gimbal assembly

US Patent 7417829 Head slider having a flat first step and a second flat step with a groove therein, and disk drive employing the head slider

US Patent 7417830 Head gimbal assembly with dual-mode piezo microactuator

US Patent 7417831 Micro-actuator and head gimbal assembly for a disk drive device

US Patent 7417832 Magnetoresistive structure having a novel specular and filter layer combination

US Patent 7420767 Recording and/or reproducing device having a positioning arrangement for fixing a grabber in place

US Patent 7420768 Cartridge loading apparatus

US Patent 7420774 Housing with a rail shaped to reduce impact damage

US Patent 7420775 Hard disk drive

US Patent 7420781 Head actuator assembly for a tape drive

US Patent 7420783 Slim actuator and slim micro-drive apparatus comprising the same

US Patent 7421720 Optical disk device

US Patent 7423847 Current-perpendicular-to-the-plane spin-valve (CPP-SV) sensor with current-confining apertures concentrated near the sensing edge

US Patent 7423848 Process and structure to fabricate CPP spin valve heads for ultra-high recording density

US Patent 7426094 Magnetic tape cassettes and processes for producing them

US Patent 7430095 Tapered write pole for reduced skew effect

US Patent 7436609 Apparatus method and system for concurrent gain control in a magnetic read channel

US Patent 7436612 Storage apparatus, storage apparatus control method, and computer product

US Patent 7437743 Optical disk drive

US Patent 7440211 Apparatus and/or method of controlling timing of servo pulses and disk drive using the method

US Patent 7440226 Cartridge loading devices

US Patent 7443634 Asymmetrical storage disk for a disk drive

US Patent 7443638 Magnetoresistive structures and fabrication methods

US Patent 7443780 Optical pickup device and optical disk device having a diffraction element so that a first light beam and a second light beam comport with each other

US Patent 7444649 Tray for disc drive

US Patent 7444650 Disk apparatus

US Patent 7444652 Protective device

US Patent 7448266 Fabrication method of optical disk drive

US Patent 7450352 Fabrication of magnetic tunnel junctions with epitaxial and textured ferromagnetic layers

US Patent 7450485 Additional data channel in between marks

US Patent 7451462 Disk drive having a resilient structure for sealingly closing a tray opening

US Patent 7453667 Hard disk drive, hard disk damper, and method for the same

US Patent 7453668 Thin film magnetic head, method of manufacturing the same, and magnetic recording apparatus

US Patent 7453671 Magnetic head having a pair of magneto-resistive (MR) readers of the same type with each reader being tuned differently

US Patent 7454767 Memory storage disk handling system

US Patent 7454770 Apparatus for reading information, supporting means for use in the apparatus and method for rotating a data carrier

US Patent 7458085 Method for opening tray door of optical disc device and its structure

US Patent RE40598 Memory storage disk handling system having a servo-driven elevator pin

US Patent 7460334 Spindle motor and recording-disk drive furnished with the spindle motor

US Patent 7461387 Disk device

US Patent 7461391 Spindle motor with stability and vibration reduction mechanism

US Patent 7463442 Impedance-matched write driver circuit and system using same

US Patent 7463449 Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly and magnetic disk drive

US Patent 7463458 Magnetoresistive-effect device with a multi-layer magnetoresistive-effect film

US Patent 7463459 Self-pinned read sensor design with enhanced lead stabilizing mechanism

US Patent 7464387 Stack type disk changer

US Patent 7466512 Electric power supply device of a tape-end detecting sensor for a tape recorder

US Patent 7466513 Airflow shroud for HDD tracking microactuator

US Patent 7466518 Slidably engaging snap-on arm mounts for disk drive head suspensions

US Patent 7466526 Ferromagnetic tunnel junction, magnetic head using the same, magnetic recording device, and magnetic memory device

US Patent 7467393 Slim-type recording and reproducing apparatus having positioning structure for positioning a tray therein

US Patent 7467394 Recording medium drive

US Patent 7467395 Disc drive device

US Patent 7467396 Disc drive and flexible cable assembly therein

US Patent 7474501 Outer hub assembly and spindle motor including the same in hard disk drive and method for servo-track writing

US Patent 7474506 Magnetic recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and stamper

US Patent 7474511 Voice-coil motor and positioning device or servo-track writer including a voice-coil motor

US Patent 7475410 Disc recording and/or playback apparatus

US Patent 7477478 Deep storage slot with a constant spring force

US Patent 7477485 Information recording medium, recording/reproducing apparatus, and stamper

US Patent 7477486 Air bearing slider with a side pad having a shallow recess depth

US Patent 7477487 Multi-layered and shaped load beam for disk drive suspensions

US Patent 7478412 Clamper and disk drive with the same

US Patent 7483234 Control device, control method, and storage apparatus for controlling read head and write head clearance by thermal protrusion

US Patent 7483357 Optical pickup and optical disc apparatus

US Patent 7484229 Optical pickup and optical disk apparatus

US Patent 7484232 Disc cartridge, and method of installing shutter to same

US Patent 7486467 Magnetic disk drive and method for registering defective sector using timing control of pattern writing

US Patent 7486606 Optical head and optical information apparatus for recording or reproducing information on an information recording medium

US Patent 7489597 Electromagnetic field generating element, information recording/reproducing head, and information recording/reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7495863 Hydrodynamic bearing device, and spindle motor and information device using the same

US Patent 7495864 Perpendicular magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7496937 Safety device and storage medium player having the same

US Patent 7496938 Media drive with a luminescence detector and methods of detecting an authentic article

US Patent 7502288 Method and apparatus for overwriting data on recording-medium and the recording medium

US Patent 7503107 Method for manufacturing a magnetic head using a multi-stage ion milling

US Patent 7505232 Magnetic head with side shield and manufacturing method thereof

US Patent 7505233 Magnetic sensor

US Patent 7506348 Disc cartridge, and disc recording and/or reproducing device using the same

US Patent 7508634 Micro-actuator, vibration canceller, head gimbal assembly, and disk drive unit with the same

US Patent 7511926 Larger dR CPP GMR structure

US Patent 7515382 Tape guide roller with zoned non-smooth surface

US Patent 7516461 Disk device

US Patent 11189306 Reduced-stress tape head module

US Patent 11189318 Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording and reproducing device

US Patent 11189322 Support assembly

US Patent 7518978 Information storage medium and method and system for recording data on the same

US Patent 7519981 Cartridge for an information recording medium

US Patent 7522378 Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic writing

US Patent 7522385 Rotating disk storage device with suppressed arm fluttering

US Patent 7525761 Method of making a multi-channel time based servo tape media

US Patent 7525764 Suspension board with circuit

US Patent 7525768 Electrical connection between a suspension flexure cable and a head stack assembly flexible circuit

US Patent 7525772 Magnetoresistive device, magnetic reproducing head, and magnetic information reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7525776 Magnetoresistive element, magnetoresistive head, magnetic recording apparatus, and magnetic memory

US Patent 7526782 Shutter member for disc cartridge, disc cartridge and disc recording/reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7532433 Thin film perpendicular magnetic recording head, their fabrication process and magnetic disk drive using it

US Patent 7533397 Disc cartridge

US Patent 7535678 Method and system for utilizing flexible members in a head gimbal assembly to reduce impact of operational disturbances of slider flying height

US Patent 7535680 Micro-actuator with integrated trace and bonding pad support

US Patent 7535681 Micro-actuator including side arms having back-turned extensions, head gimbal assembly and disk drive unit with the same

US Patent 7538977 Method and apparatus for providing diamagnetic flux focusing in a storage device

US Patent 7540004 Ultra-small optical/magnetic head actuator with pivot hinge and Halbach magnet array

US Patent 7540005 Disk drive

US Patent 7540006 Optical information recording medium and manufacture method thereof

US Patent 7542235 Perpendicular magnetic recording medium

US Patent 7542247 Magnetic disk apparatus

US Patent 7542249 Bottom spin valve with laminated CoFe free layer for ultra-high density recording

US Patent 7543314 Optical disc drive having impact absorbing member

US Patent 7543315 Disk-clamping device providing little noise during the disk clamping operation in a disk drive

US Patent 7545603 Magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof

US Patent 7545606 Head element support apparatus with elastic material

US Patent 7551396 Perpendicular magnetic write head having a studded trailing shield compatible with read/write offset

US Patent 7555759 Optical pickup device and optical disk device

US Patent 7555760 Optical head

US Patent 7555763 Disk cartridge

US Patent 7558024 Load/unload-type head suspension and method of processing the same

US Patent 7559069 Optical disc device

US Patent 7564649 Head assembly having a sensing element to provide feedback for head-media instability

US Patent 7565667 Disc apparatus having blower for selectively directing air to pickup or loading device

US Patent 7565668 Optical disc apparatus

US Patent 7567413 Magnetic detecting element with diffusion-preventing layer between spacer Cu and magnetic layer, and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7568206 Disc changer

US Patent 7576943 Magnetic disk drive with positioning control system

US Patent 7580230 Magnetoresistive sensor having shape enhanced pinning, a flux guide structure and damage free virtual edges

US Patent 7583456 Method and apparatus to limit DC-level in coded data

US Patent 7583459 Method and apparatus for write precompensation in a magnetic recording system

US Patent 7583466 Disk drive determining operating fly height by detecting head disk contact from disk rotation time

US Patent 7586707 Magnetic disk drive with increased storage capacity

US Patent 7586821 Data storage apparatus that either certifies a recording medium in the background or verifies data written in the recording medium

US Patent 7589925 Method of accessing variable density data tracks in a disk drive

US Patent 7589939 Magnetic sensor using giant magnetoresistive elements and method for manufacturing the same

US Patent 7593188 Low protrusion compensation air bearing

US Patent 7593193 Magnetoresistive element and magnetic memory device

US Patent 7593196 Method and apparatus for providing a magnetic read sensor having a thin pinning layer and improved magnetoresistive coefficient ΔR/R

US Patent 7593294 Optical pickup

US Patent 7596796 Disk cartridge, and disk recording and/or reproducing device

US Patent 7599140 Output control device and recording-medium-driver control device

US Patent 7602583 Disc clamping device and disc drive having the same

US Patent 7602678 Lens holder and lens protector for use in optical pick-up and method of manufacturing same

US Patent 7606000 Offset structure for disk drive head suspension

US Patent 7607145 Structure for fixing spindle motor to traverse chassis

US Patent 7609478 Magnetic writer pole with a graded magnetic moment

US Patent 7609479 Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording and method of manufacturing same

US Patent 7609484 Magnetic disk device

US Patent 7609490 Magnetoresistive device, thin film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly, magnetic disk apparatus, synthetic antiferromagnetic magnetization pinned layer, magnetic memory cell, and current sensor

US Patent 7616407 Disk drive apparatus

US Patent 7616411 Current perpendicular to plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor having a flux guide structure and synthetic free layer

US Patent 7623320 Discrete mounting arm for hard disk drive and method for making the same

US Patent 7626787 Method and apparatus for using a specular scattering layer in a free layer of a magnetic sensor while stabilizing the free layer by direct coupling with an antiferromagnetic layer

US Patent 7627877 Objective lens actuator and optical pickup unit employing the same

US Patent 7630167 Method and apparatus to detect sub-micron particles in a hard disk drive with optical pickup

US Patent 7633714 Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording and method of manufacturing same

US Patent 7633724 Dual-type tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) elements

US Patent 7634783 Scanning device for optical discs

US Patent 7639452 Magnetic head for perpendicular recording and fabrication process

US Patent 7643243 Damper for information storage device

US Patent 7643245 Magnetic disc unit with gap between magnetic disc and shroud

US Patent 7643247 β-phase tantalum thin-film resistor and thin-film magnetic head with the resistor

US Patent 7646564 Perpendicular magnetic recording head for high frequency drive

US Patent 7646566 Slider deformation control by thermal-structural compensators

US Patent 7649719 Current perpendicular to plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor with improved pinned layer

US Patent 7650611 Disc apparatus

US Patent 7650613 Disc drive

US Patent 7652849 Flexible cable positioning structure and magnetic disk drive

US Patent 7653919 Optical article having anti-theft feature and a system and method for inhibiting theft of same

US Patent 7656610 Bi-directional magnetic recording head built on a common substrate

US Patent 7656616 Magnetic head device having slider and magnetic function unit

US Patent 7656617 Slider and manufacturing method thereof, head gimbal assembly, disk drive with same

US Patent 7660077 Method and system for reduction of off-track write errors in disk drives

US Patent 7660080 Read/write head with dynamic flying height control by magnetostriction

US Patent 7663844 Actuator arm with arm hole to improve dynamic characteristics and actuator assembly having the same

US Patent 7665101 Optical pickup apparatus

US Patent 7667923 Hard drive data platter impairment tool

US Patent 7667926 Disk device

US Patent 7668056 Warpage angle measurement apparatus and warpage angle measurement method for optical recording medium

US Patent 7672077 Auto loading device for data storage cartridges

US Patent 7672081 Perpendicular magnetic recording head

US Patent 7672082 Flexible wiring board for magnetic head assembly

US Patent 7672090 Magnetic read sensor employing oblique etched underlayers for inducing uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a hard magnetic pinning layer

US Patent 7672093 Hafnium doped cap and free layer for MRAM device

US Patent 7673309 Scalable integrated high density optical data/media storage delivery system

US Patent 7675716 Composite thin-film magnetic head, magnetic head assembly and magnetic disk drive apparatus

US Patent 7679859 Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with circuit board attachment device

US Patent 7679860 Thin film magnetic head with layer having high saturation magnetic flux density, and magnetic storage apparatus

US Patent 7679864 Narrow width actuator for tape drive systems

US Patent 7679866 CPP spin valve with long spin diffusion length AP1 layers

US Patent 7681210 Ejection apparatus for data storage device

US Patent 7681211 Mechanism for guiding airflows within optical disc drive

US Patent 7681212 Photosensitive recording medium cartridge

US Patent 7684146 Hermetic seal for a spindle motor of a disk drive

US Patent 7684158 Electromagnetic heads, flexures, gimbals and actuators formed on and from a wafer substrate

US Patent 7684159 Magnetic head device provided with lead electrode electrically connected to upper shield layer and lower shield layer

US Patent 7684293 Write once optical disc, and method and apparatus for recovering disc management information from the write once optical disc

US Patent 7685614 Optical disk drive

US Patent 7688549 Head suspension

US Patent 7690009 Electromagnetic field generating element, information recording/reproducing head and information recording/reproduction apparatus

US Patent 7690010 Photosensitive recording medium cartridge

US Patent 7692890 Flying height control method and circuit

US Patent 7692892 Two-material base for a data storage system

US Patent 7692902 Tunnel magnetoresistance effect device, and a portable personal device

US Patent 7697233 Disk drive comprising a servo accelerator implementing state space equations for a plurality of task objects

US Patent 7697237 Shielded copper-dielectric flexure for disk drive head suspensions

US Patent 7697245 CPP-GMR magnetic head having GMR-screen layer

US Patent 7698714 Slim optical disc drive

US Patent 7698715 Emergency ejection device for a slot-in optical disk drive

US Patent 7701665 Wear pads for timing-based surface film servo heads

US Patent 7701674 Head suspension with multilayer ground, flexure with multilayer ground, and methods of manufacturing them

US Patent 7706102 Secure data storage

US Patent 7707596 Queue hand

US Patent 7710682 Method and apparatus for writing spiral servo pattern in a disk drive

US Patent 7710684 Library apparatus with cartridge type sensor

US Patent 7710691 Three terminal magnetic sensor having an in-stack longitudinal biasing layer structure in the collector region and a pinned layer structure in the emitter region

US Patent 7715149 Disk drive including an actuator latch with a catch portion and a crash stop portion of lesser material stiffness than the catch portion

US Patent 7715156 Tunnel magnetoresistive effect element and thin-film magnetic head with tunnel magnetoresistive effect read head element

US Patent 7716689 Disk-storing disk device with vibrational proofing

US Patent 7716693 Optical disc drive with static electricity

US Patent 7719782 Fast forward magnetic tape cartridge at first mount

US Patent 7719783 Hard disk drive with mechanism for controlling protrusion of head

US Patent 7719786 Active fly height control using radio frequency feedback

US Patent 7719789 Controlling device, magnetic storage medium, storage device, and method for determining offset amount

US Patent 7719799 Magnetoresistive element, magnetic head and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7719938 Optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus and optical disk recording method

US Patent 7724469 High frequency field assisted write device

US Patent 7724473 Slider with actuator-transducer separation and roll activation

US Patent 7724478 Magnetic disk drive, wiring connection structure and terminal structure

US Patent 7724481 Magnetic sensing element including free magnetic layer or pinned magnetic layer having two sublayers that are composed of different CoMn-based heusler alloys

US Patent 7729085 Thermally assisted recording of magnetic media using an optical resonant cavity

US Patent 7729091 Clip for mounting a flex cable within a head stack assembly

US Patent 7730504 Disc cartridge

US Patent 7733604 Perpendicular magnetic recording head with return pass layer

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US Patent 7742257 Acoustic damping pad that reduces deflection of a circuit board

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US Patent 7746596 Linear tape drive module for a linear tape drive system

US Patent 7751146 Abs through aggressive stitching

US Patent 7751147 Air bearing surface with shallow center channel

US Patent 7751148 Multi-level, multi-track magnetic recording head

US Patent 7751150 Ramp for polyoxmethylene resin hard disk drive

US Patent 7751152 Head suspension

US Patent 7752641 Disk apparatus

US Patent 7755864 Magnetic recording head for perpendicular recording, fabrication process, and magnetic disk storage apparatus mounting the magnetic recording head

US Patent 7760464 Base for data storage device with parallelism mounting features

US Patent 7760465 Magnetic head having selectively defined reader gap thicknesses

US Patent 7760467 Substrate for magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording apparatus

US Patent 7760469 Method and apparatus for an air bearing surface to reduce contamination due to saturation water vapor pressure in a hard disk drive

US Patent 7760470 Electrical connection between a suspension flexure cable and a head stack assembly flexible circuit

US Patent 7760475 Magneto-resistance effect element having free layer including magnetostriction reduction layer and thin-film magnetic head

US Patent 7764464 Thin film magnetic head having solenoidal coil and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7764470 Magneto-resistance effect element and thin-film magnetic head having non-magnetic spacer layer composed of one semiconductor layer and two metal layers

US Patent 7764471 Magneto-resistance effect element having diffusion blocking layer and thin-film magnetic head

US Patent 7768740 Apparatus and method for attaching a disk to a spindle of a spinstand

US Patent 7768742 Method and apparatus for providing a truncated profile probe for perpendicular recording

US Patent 7770190 Disk unit having at least one limit switch for detecting a size of an inserted disk

US Patent 7773470 Pickup control device, optical disk apparatus and pickup control method for the same

US Patent 7774805 Disk clamping device

US Patent 7779433 3D actuator for optical disc system

US Patent 7787214 Disk device

US Patent 7787217 Suspension bend section with stiffness-reducing features

US Patent 7791833 Spindle motor having a deep-drawn baseplate

US Patent 7796360 Perpendicular magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7802272 Chucking device, and motor and disc drive device having loaded thereon a chucking device

US Patent 7802273 Turntable assembly

US Patent 7802274 Optical data storage article having a physical surface modification as an anti-theft feature and a system and method for inhibiting theft of same

US Patent 7804743 Thermally assisted magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7808750 Thin-film magnetic head comprising magneto-resistive effect device, and hard disk system

US Patent 7808875 Data recording apparatus

US Patent 7813079 Thin film perpendicular magnetic recording head, their fabrication process and magnetic disk drive using it

US Patent 7826313 Disk changer

US Patent 7826323 Reproducing apparatus and method with reduced bit error rate

US Patent 7827568 Integration of structural and cosmetic bezel having a disk guide for a slot loading optical drive

US Patent 7827570 Cartridge locking mechanism and tray locking mechanism for cartridge drive apparatus

US Patent 7830638 Structure and method for localizing solder ball strain on hard disk drive suspension gimbal

US Patent 7830756 Demodulation of tracking error signal to obtain lens position for lens motion control in an optical disc system

US Patent 7830757 Tracking control method for reading/writing optical disk

US Patent 7836462 Optical disk device

US Patent 7839751 Objective lens and optical system for optical pick-up

US Patent 7840974 Disc identification device, disc insertion-ejection device, and disc device

US Patent 7843667 Thin film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly and magnetic disk device

US Patent 7844979 Disc player

US Patent 7844984 Optical recording medium and manufacturing method thereof

US Patent 7848058 Voice coil damper

US Patent 7855854 Head with an air bearing surface having a shallow recessed trailing air flow dam

US Patent 7855860 Magnetoresistance element magnetic random access memory, magnetic head and magnetic storage device

US Patent 7872832 Magnetic head device having hook for mechanically pressure-mounting slider

US Patent 7881011 Perpendicular pole structure and method of fabricating the same

US Patent 7881019 Two step corner recess for secondary stray field reduction in a perpendicular magnetic recording head

US Patent 7881022 Magnetic head and method for fabricating the same

US Patent 7885037 Disk storage cartridge

US Patent 7885148 Disc processing apparatus

US Patent 7890966 Disk drive access door

US Patent 7890968 Optical disc device having two optomechanical mechanisms

US Patent 7894157 Variable spring-force mechanism for advancing tape media cartridges in a deep slot cell

US Patent 7894158 Magnetic disk apparatus

US Patent 7894160 Thin-film magnetic head controlling floating amount by locally projecting element portion toward recording medium by thermal expansion and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7894162 Method to protect the magnetic recording head from thermal asperities during disk drive operation

US Patent 7894314 Recording system and program for recording data

US Patent 7894319 Optical recording medium, method of producing the same, and, optical recording method and optical reproducing method

US Patent 7898764 System, method, and apparatus for slit shroud with integrated bypass channel wall feature for disk drive applications

US Patent 7898774 Magnetoresistive effect element with resistance adjustment layer of semimetal, magnetic head and magnetic reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7898908 Head for thermally assisted magnetic recording device and thermally assisted magnetic recording device

US Patent 7903372 Magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same

US Patent 7903373 Thin film magnetic head having heating element

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US Patent 7904918 Disk device for recording and reading information

US Patent 7911739 Writing and reading multi-level patterned magnetic recording media

US Patent 7916427 Electromagnetic heads, flexures, gimbals and actuators formed on and from a wafer substrate

US Patent 7916429 Magnetic field detecting element having thin stack with a plurality of free layers and thick bias magnetic layer

US Patent 7916430 Thin-film magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof

US Patent 7916431 Magnetoresistive element including insulating film touching periphery of spacer layer

US Patent 7921437 Optical pick apparatus

US Patent 7924527 Magnetic disk drive, magnetic disk drive manufacturing method and method of estimating gas amount in magnetic disk drive

US Patent 7924528 Magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording and method of manufacturing same

US Patent 7924534 Magnetic sensor

US Patent 7924665 Pickup device and recording medium drive unit

US Patent 7929251 Assembly, apparatus and method for fabricating a structural element of a hard disk drive air bearing

US Patent 7933097 Disk drive head suspension with damper hinge

US Patent 7933191 Optical disc drive having two optomechanical mechanisms

US Patent 7934226 Optical pickup apparatus

US Patent 7936537 Substrate for magnetic recording medium, magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus

US Patent 7937720 Disk carrying device and optical disk recording/reproducing device

US Patent 7940486 Thermally assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive

US Patent 7944650 Magnetoresistive element including layered film touching periphery of spacer layer

US Patent 7948709 Thin-film magnetic head

US Patent 7948717 Magneto-resistance effect element, magnetic head, magnetic recording/reproducing device and magnetic memory

US Patent 7952834 Flex circuit assembly with thermal energy dissipation

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US Patent 7957085 Thermally assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive

US Patent 7957098 Magnetic recording head and magnetic recording apparatus

US Patent 7957109 Magnetic head of magnetoresistance effect type with high resistance to external stress

US Patent 7958520 Disk drive device

US Patent 7969684 Write head design and method for reducing adjacent track interference at very narrow track widths

US Patent 7969689 Spacer keys with pivoting supports

US Patent 7969834 Optical pickup device having a structure providing efficient light usage

US Patent 7969839 Apparatus and method for detecting an optimal writing power

US Patent 7969847 Disc apparatus

US Patent 7974043 Thermally assisted magnetic head

US Patent 7974170 Application of wavelet transform filtering for processing data signals from optical data storage devices

US Patent 7978434 Magnetic recording medium, method of fabricating the same, and magnetic recording apparatus

US Patent 7978587 Optical pickup apparatus and optical disc apparatus with a single beam system

US Patent 7983118 Record carrier and scanning device

US Patent 7986492 Process for filling a patterned media of a hard disk with UV-cured lubricant

US Patent 7986601 Multi-purpose high-density optical disc

US Patent 7990650 Reducing the obstruction of air flow through a bypass channel associated with a disk drive using an electrostatic pass-by filter

US Patent 7990808 Performing error-free access operation on multi-layered disc

US Patent 7990822 Sound recording/reproducing method and apparatus

US Patent 7990830 Optical pickup, optical information recording apparatus and optical information recording and reproducing apparatus using the optical pickup

US Patent 8000195 Signal processing system

US Patent 8004791 Information storage device with a bridge controller and a plurality of electrically coupled conductive shields

US Patent 8004950 Optical pickup, optical information recording and reproducing apparatus and method for optically recording and reproducing information

US Patent 8009530 Information providing system, reproduction device and method, information providing device and method, recording medium, and program

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