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8164853 Perpendicular magnetic write head with side shield saturation magnetic flux density increasing away from magnetic pole  
A perpendicular magnetic write head is provided with a magnetic pole and a pair of side shields disposed on both sides of the magnetic pole in a cross track direction with side gaps in between....
8159782 Thin film magnetic head having heating element  
A thin film magnetic head is provided, in which the amount of protrusion in the periphery of an element portion can be reduced or a local temperature increase of electrode leads of a heating...
8149540 Magnetic head structure with diagonal of rectangular-shaped height monitor extending along track width direction  
In a magnetic head structure that forms a medium facing surface of a head element unit by polishing processing, a height monitor that is exposed in the vicinity of the head element unit during the...
8144427 Magnetic head, head assembly and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus  
The present invention relates to a magnetic head, a head assembly, and a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus which are capable of effectively detecting thermal asperity. The magnetic head...
8111486 Head gimbals assembly of hard disk and method of assembling thereof  
A head gimbals assembly for a hard disk for use in a thermally assisted magnetic disk recording medium, in which a laser diode is applied so as to record information with high density. The head...
8089726 Method for counteracting longitudinal oscillations of magnetic tape in a tape drive system  
A method for counteracting longitudinal oscillations in a magnetic tape as it passes over a head in a tape drive system includes the steps of passing the magnetic tape over the head, detecting the...
8049990 Cleaning tape and method of producing same  
A cleaning tape has a base tape made of a synthetic resin and a cleaning layer formed on a surface of this base tape. The cleaning layer has a binding agent and a large number of spherical...
8045293 Thin film magnetic head including thermal deformation-preventing layer  
A thin film magnetic head includes a recording and playback element, a lead conductor layer for feeding a power to the recording and playback element, an electrically conductive bump for...
8023228 Heat assisted magnetic recording head and method of manufacturing the same  
A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head and manufacturing method are provided. The HAMR head is mounted on a slider having an air-bearing surface (ABS) and includes a substrate; a recording...
8004794 Perpendicular magnetic recording head laminated with AFM-FM phase change material  
A PMR writer is disclosed that minimizes pole erasure during non-writing and maximize write field during writing through an AFM-FM phase change material that is in an AFM state during non-writing...
7965469 Tape cartridge and tape loading system using same  
There are provided a tape cartridge which can reliably remove contamination adhering to the surface of a head and a tape loading system using the same. A tape such as recording tapes and leader...
7957098 Magnetic recording head and magnetic recording apparatus  
A magnetic writing head includes: a main magnetic pole; a laminated body; and a pair of electrodes. The laminated body includes a first magnetic layer having a coercivity lower than magnetic field...
7957085 Thermally assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive  
A thermally assisted magnetic head has a slider substrate having a first surface located on the opposite side to a medium-facing surface, and side surfaces located between the medium-facing surface...
7948711 Article of manufacture to automatically clean a tape drive  
A system, a method, and article of manufacture are employed to clean the input/output transducers on tape drives, verified by the tape drives reading alphanumeric information from data tracks and...
7908739 Motor assembly and method of manufacturing thereof  
In a manufacturing method, energy beam heat is radiated to a target area of the motor assembly which is used for a storage disk drive. By radiating energy beam thereto, a portion of the motor...
7911738 Magnetic head slider with resistive heating film meandering in stacking direction  
According to embodiments of the present invention, a magnetic head slider provided with a heater disposed near a read element to adjust flying height, is required to increase a thermal protrusion...
7903373 Thin film magnetic head having heating element  
A thin film magnetic head is provided, in which the amount of protrusion in the periphery of an element portion can be reduced or a local temperature increase of electrode leads of a heating...
7895731 Method for manufacturing magnetic field detecting element utilizing diffusion and migration of silver  
A method for manufacturing a magnetic field detecting element having a free layer whose magnetization direction is variable depending on an external magnetic field and a pinned layer whose...
7889458 Write head with self-cross biased pole for high speed magnetic recording  
A magnetic write head having a magnetic cross yoke arranged to provide a cross magnetic field in a pole tip region of the magnetic head. The cross field, which is perpendicular to the magnetization...
7869154 Magnetic tape driving apparatus  
A magnetic tape driving apparatus includes a magnetic head (2), a temperature/humidity sensor (4), a Peltier element (11), and a controller (15). The temperature/humidity sensor (4) that detects...
7817375 Magnetic recording head having spin wave oscillator which locally heats a recording track  
A magnetic recording head includes a spin wave oscillator having a lamination film including a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer, and a pair of electrodes adapted to inject a current...
7782567 Cleaning system for tape head and tape drive system implementing same  
A tape drive system according to one embodiment includes a tape head; a guide mechanism for passing a magnetic recording tape over the head; and a cleaning device for cleaning the head, wherein,...
7777990 Magnetic disk unit and magnetic head slider  
In a magnetic disk unit, the flying height margin of a magnetic recording element part during recording is reduced, whereby improvement in recording density and increase in capacity or decrease in...
7773347 Electrostatic protection for a magnetic tape head having multiple MR read elements  
A thin-film magnetic head has a plurality of MR read head elements. Each MR read head element includes shield layers electrically insulated from the ground. An electrical resistor layer is...
7738214 Thin film magnetic head  
When exogenous noise is applied to the ground wire of a thin film magnetic head, crosstalk noise occurs in a lead line and a ground lines located near the ground wire. Embodiments in accordance...
7726565 Insertable and removable magnetic stripe reader head protection device  
An insertable and removable reader head protection device for a magnetic stripe reader is provided including a thin, non-ferromagnetic insertable panel that is disposed between the reader head and...
7729085 Thermally assisted recording of magnetic media using an optical resonant cavity  
The media heating device of the magnetic head includes an optical resonant cavity produces a high intensity near-field optical beam of subwavelength dimension adjacent to the write pole. A suitable...
7724471 Thin-film magnetic head with heating means for adjusting magnetic spacing  
A thin-film magnetic head that the protrusion of the head end surface due to heat generated from the heating means becomes large enough to set the magnetic spacing dMS to the smaller value...
7724472 System and method for cleaning a tape drive  
A system, a method, and article of manufacture are employed to clean the input/output transducers on tape drives, verified by the tape drives reading alphanumeric information from data tracks and...
7724469 High frequency field assisted write device  
A magnetic writer includes a write element and an oscillation device disposed adjacent to the write element. The first oscillation device includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer...
7688547 Mechanism for read/write device, read/write device, and method of cleaning read/write head  
A head cleaning mechanism for a read/write device includes an arm with serially connected arm members that supports a cleaning component. The arm members fold as the arm is wound about a shaft...
7672081 Perpendicular magnetic recording head  
A perpendicular magnetic recording head which moves in a track direction of a recording layer of a perpendicular magnetic recording medium to write information on the recording layer or read...
7660080 Read/write head with dynamic flying height control by magnetostriction  
A read/write head for use in a data storage device to control the low dynamic flying height in order to achieve high data recording storage capacity of magnetic hard drives. The read/write head is...
7656614 Tape drive  
A tape back-up drive having a head assembly. The head assembly includes a head configured to read data from a tape and to write data to the tape. The head assembly also includes at least one tape...
7646566 Slider deformation control by thermal-structural compensators  
A disk drive includes a drive circuitry, a storage disk, a suspension and a slider. The slider is supported by the suspension and receives electrical current from the drive circuitry. The slider...
7643247 β-phase tantalum thin-film resistor and thin-film magnetic head with the resistor  
A thin-film resistor that has a stable electric resistance, the phase transformation to the α-phase being suppressed even in the high temperature environment, is provided. The thin-film resistor ...
7630167 Method and apparatus to detect sub-micron particles in a hard disk drive with optical pickup  
A hard disk drive that includes an optical pick-up coupled to a head of a hard disk assembly (“HDA”). The head is located adjacent to a disk. The optical pick-up can sense the surface of the dis...
7612965 Thin-film magnetic head having heatsink wider on air bearing surface side  
A thin-film magnetic head with a higher protrusion efficiency is provided, which comprises: a substrate with an air bearing surface (ABS); a read head element including a lower and upper shield...
7609482 Magnetic head slider supporting device including conductor for reducing crosstalk between lines  
A magnetic head slider supporting apparatus comprises: a suspension flexibly supporting a slider; and a flexible wiring board. The suspension incorporates a load beam. The flexible wiring board is...
7593188 Low protrusion compensation air bearing  
Magnetic head sliders having air-bearing surfaces designed to reduce the protrusion compensation effect. The magnetic head slider includes: at least one front pad located an upstream portion of the...
7573682 Writer heater for thermal protrusion shape control in a magnetic writer  
A transducing device having a storage interface surface includes a writer having a pole tip region, a coil having a width positioned around the writer, and a heating element. The heating element...
7558021 Hub lock/head cleaning dual purpose mechanism  
An exemplary embodiment provides for a tape drive that includes one or more processors, a memory and a mechanism for locking a hub and cleaning a magnetic head. The mechanism includes a plate a...
7551385 Systems and method for selectively controlling a state of hydration of a magnetic data storage medium  
A magnetic storage system according to one embodiment includes a magnetic head adapted for at least one of reading from a magnetic medium and writing to the medium; a drive mechanism for directing...
7538977 Method and apparatus for providing diamagnetic flux focusing in a storage device  
A method and apparatus for providing improved flux focusing in a write head is disclosed. The present invention uses a diamagnetic material to provide flux focusing in a storage device. An...
7538978 Heat assisted magnetic recording head and heat assisted magnetic recording apparatus for heating a recording region in a magnetic recording medium during magnetic recording  
A heat assisted magnetic recording head is provided, which can prevent an effect of a heat in a laser diode when a magnetic recording region is heated by a heating laser beam and which can reduce...
7495856 Disk drive slider design for thermal fly-height control and burnishing-on-demand  
An embodiment of the invention is a slider with a lift pad and a thermal protrusion pad in which the heads are located. The lift pad is located immediately in front of the thermal protrusion pad...
7486476 Magnetic data system having a shield biasing circuit with resistor coupled between the shield and substrate  
A magnetic data system according to one embodiment includes a head having a plurality of readers formed above a common substrate, each reader further comprising a shield and a sensor, a bias...
7486475 Magnetic data system having bias circuit with bias resistor  
A magnetic data system according to one embodiment includes at least one reader formed above a substrate, the at least one reader further comprising a shield and a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor. A...
7483229 Optical coupling to data recording transducer  
In a recording transducer, radiant energy is incident to be coupled to a recording head via a path defined in the support (e.g., slider) for the head. The radiant energy may be directed via a fiber...
7474504 Magnetic head heating element in a disk drive  
A magnetic head slider including: a head element which records or reproduces information on a magnetic disk, a slider having said head element, and an electric conducting film in which paired first...