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7352530 Method and apparatus for reducing a suspension gram load to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems  
An apparatus and method for reducing a suspension gram load to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems. The method provides a suspension for reaching over a disk....
7345850 Method and apparatus for utilizing an off-center gimbal to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems  
An apparatus and method for utilizing an off-center gimbal to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems. The method provides a suspension for reaching over a disk. A...
7289285 Information storage systems  
An information storage apparatus includes a storage media including a plurality of information tracks. Each storage medium has a head assembly having a substantially planar surface and a plurality...
6914752 Magnetic recording disk drive with continuous contact air-bearing slider  
A magnetic recording disk drive achieves continuous contact recording with a head-suspension assembly that compensates for the moment generated from an adhesive force between the head carrier or...
6493191 Planar magnetic ring head for contact recording with a rigid disk  
A transducer for a hard disk drive system has a planar magnetic core and a pair of poletips that project transversely from the core for sliding contact with the disk during reading and writing. The...
6473267 Floppy disk drive unit with mounting plate between carriage and lower magnetic head  
The height of the lower head is equal to that of the upper heads. A mounting plate is provided between the lower head and a carriage to provide penetration arrangement. The lower head is fixed on...
6445547 Magnetic disc device having head control mechanism capable of effecting head contact during high speed medium rotation  
When loading an upper head, it is brought into contact with a disc, with a lower head being in contact with the disc. In this process, the entire surface of the upper head which slides on the disc...
6411470 Durable, low-vibration, dynamic-contact hard disk drive system  
A disk drive system for contact recording has a flexure beam holding a transducer at one end, the flexure beam being oriented substantially along the direction that the transducer slides on a rigid...
6366433 Large-capacity magnetic disk drive having head load pressure adjustment  
Head load pressure generation means 36 is provided that flexibly supports an upper read/write head 25 , via a leaf spring 27 attached to a main body 22 , that moves forward and backward along...
6252737 Contact magnetic disk apparatus  
A contact magnetic disk apparatus includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a contact pad, a suspension, an arm, an actuator, and a control section. The control section has a lubricant uniforming...
6229673 Magnetic head assembly with contact-type head chip mounting and electrically connecting arrangements  
A magnetic disk drive has a magnetic disk and a magnetic head assembly mounted on an arm. The assembly is utilized in the recording and reproducing of data on and from a recording/reproducing...
6212047 Hard disk drive with magnetoresistive head and perpendicular media  
An information storage system having a ring head in such close proximity to a rigid magnetic storage disk that the magnetic field felt by the media layer or layers of the disk has a larger...
6141182 Magnetic head assembly with contact-type head chip mounting and electrically connecting arrangements  
This invention relates to a magnetic head assembly for information recording and reproduction on and from a magnetic disk using a magnetic head, a method manufacturing the same and a magnetic disk...
6084748 Magnetic disc apparatus with a magnetic space member  
A magnetic disc apparatus capable of selectively driving at least two types of the magnetic discs having signal recording portions on their major surfaces and having different recording densities....
5949612 Low friction sliding hard disk drive system  
A operationally contacting hard disk drive system has reduced friction due to lower capillary adhesion between the disk surface and a transducer in a substantially continuous sliding relationship...
5936799 Magnetic head with core portions connected by shock-absorbing portion  
A magnetic head for use in a magnetic disk drive and for recording and reproducing data to and from adjacent magnetic disks, the magnetic head being in contact with the magnetic disks while the...
5909341 Hard disk drive  
A hard disk drive includes a magnetic disk used as a magnetic recording medium, and a magnetic head for applying magnetic fields to the disk to record data and for detecting magnetic fields from...
5825592 Magnetic head with bobbin attached to a slidable contact body  
A magnetic head which is slidably in contact with a magneto-optical recording medium at the time of carrying out recording of information signals onto the magneto-optical recording medium. This...
5801906 Magnetic head device incorporating a ferroelectric thin film  
A ferroelectric thin film (6) is formed on the surface of a support spring (4) for pressing a magnetic head (3) against a magnetic disc (1) so that the magnetic head (3) is in close contact with...
5771137 Thermally stable magnetic head assembly with magnetic head legs bonded to insular portions connected to flexible frame via bridges  
A magnetic head unit has a pair of spaced apart mounting legs bonded to a flexure seat thereby to be resiliently supported. Being made from sheet steel or the like, the flexure seat is more...
5768054 Tribo-attractive contact data storage system  
A contact magnetic storage system in which the slider, which supports the magnetic read/write head, is in physical contact with a rigid magnetic storage medium during system operation at a selected...
5742452 Low mass magnetic recording head and suspension  
A integral magnetic head and suspension and method for making the same. The integral head and suspension are fabricated completely on silicon (Si) wafers using semiconductor processes. A N+ silicon...
5734519 Contact magnetic recording disk file with improved head assembly  
A contact recording disk file uses an integrated head-suspension assembly having a head carrier with a dual-layer wear pad for contacting the disk during read and write operations. The outer wear...
5729408 Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus having a magnetic head with a linearly movable arm provided with a plurality of recording/reproducing elements  
A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus comprises a magnetic recording medium provided with tracks for recording/reproducing information, an arm situated above the magnetic recording medium in a...
5726832 Information recording/reproducing device including a head loading/unloading mechanism having decoupling means  
An information recording/reproducing apparatus removably holding a disk cartridge including a case having a head window and a recording medium stored in the case is provided. The apparatus...
5719726 Magnetic head for recording signals on and reproducing signals from magnetic media and mounted on a support plate having stress reducing grooves  
A magnetic head comprising a magnetic core 1, a slider 2 constructed of a non-magnetic ceramic, a supporting plate 3 made of a metal which securely bonds the slider 2, and one or more grooves 4...
5682281 Magnetic disk driver capable of preventing occurrence of a data error resulting from static electricity  
A flexible printed wiring board (29-1) is brought into contact with an insulating tape (31-1) attached onto an internal wall of an upper case (30) with the movement of a head carriage (25). The...
5677814 Recording/reproducing apparatus  
A head feeding mechanism of a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a 0-side carriage which carries a 0-side magnetic head provided on a surface area close to the tip end of the 0-side...
5673161 Low wear rate magnetic head slider with high recording density  
A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic head for performing recording and reproduction with respect to a magnetic disk medium, and an actuator for driving the magnetic head. The magnetic head...
5666240 Magnetic head assembly for temporarily holding magnetic head members  
A magnetic head assembly for an elongated integral type magnetic head. The assembly includes a plurality of elongated integral magnetic head bodies formed on a substrate. The head bodies are formed...
5606474 High density disk drive with accelerated disk access  
A high density fixed head disk drive is shown. Small track width and small inter-track spacing is accomplished by small head-to-media distances, which are maintained by fabricating both read/write...
5600515 Sliding type magnetic head assembly having a spherical contact surface offset from a magnetic pole  
A magnetic head assembly used for an information storage medium including a sliding surface according to the present invention includes a magnetic-field generation means having a magnetic pole and...
5557488 Gimbaled micro-head/flexure/conductor assembly and system  
A low-mass head/flexure/conductor assembly for reading and writing information with respect to a rigid magnetic recording disk. The assembly includes a read/write transducer unit, an elongate...
5550691 Size-independent, rigid-disk, magnetic, digital-information storage system with localized read/write enhancements  
An electromagnetic disk drive system including a rigid disk and electromagnetic read/write head structure and elongate flexure structure which cooperatively offer unique features and performance in...
5543987 Head carriage device having applying force means disposed within pillar portion  
In a head carriage device, a carriage has a first head at a first end thereof. The carriage extends approximately in a disc radial direction, in which a recording-medium disc is loaded in an...
5541789 Magnetic recording apparatus with magnetic head on slider having applied load larger than buoyant force acting on slider so that gap between magnetic head and magnetic disk is smaller than total thickness of protective layer and lubricating layer on disk  
A magnetic recording device includes a magnetic disk for storing information, a magnetic head for writing and reading information relative to the magnetic disk, a device for rotating the magnetic...
5530605 Magnetic-head slider support mechanism and magnetic recording apparatus  
A slider support mechanism of a leaf-spring type movable only in a direction perpendicular to a surface of a disk and having a torsional rigidity equal to or more than 100 gfmm/rad and a spring...
5483025 Unitary micro-flexure structure  
A unitary micro-flexure structure and a method of making the same, wherein the structure takes the form of an elongate dielectric flexure body having a mounting end and a free end, and which is...
5454158 Method of making integral transducer-suspension assemblies for longitudinal recording  
An integral combination magnetic transducer and suspension assembly suitable for use in both contact recording and in winchester-type applications is described. A generally rectangular elongate...
5408373 Integrated transducer-suspension assembly for vertical recording  
An integral combination magnetic transducer and suspension assembly suitable for use in both contact recording and in winchester-type applications is described. A generally rectangular elongated...
5396385 Floppy disk drive  
The present invention aims at reducing the thickness of a floppy disk drive by minimizing a vertical movement of a floppy disk-retaining disk holder and reducing the height of a chassis. The disk...
5305167 Magnetic disk apparatus having magnetic head insulated from metal head carriage  
The present inventor provides a magnetic disk apparatus that has a moving unit, a magnetic head and a wiring plate that electrically insulates the magnetic head and the moving unit. The moving unit...
5303102 Disk drive apparatus having head guard  
A disk drive apparatus for recording and reproducing desired information on and from floppy disks, is simply and thinly structured and has an excellent shock resistance. The disk unit includes a...
5303104 Disk drive apparatus having carriage driving mechanism  
A disk drive apparatus for recording and reproducing signals movement-positions a head, mounted on a carriage, in a disk radial direction with the aid of a pinion provided on an output shaft of a...
5293289 Head carriage device  
A head carriage device for use in a disk recording/reproducing unit of the type in which a head mounted on a head carriage is positionable to read or write data on a recording medium accommodated...
5278712 Removable disk drive having two heads formed with a gimbal structure  
A removable disk system includes a disk which can be recorded on both surfaces thereof and a disk drive for recording input data on tracks on both surfaces of the disk. The disk drive includes head...
5237474 Head cartridge apparatus having head supporting arm partially inserted into disk case through window formed therein  
A head carriage apparatus includes a carriage main body, a first magnetic head inserted into a disk case via a window formed therein and coming into contact with a recording medium in a...
5222005 Loading unit for case which houses recording disk  
A loading unit loads a case housing a disk recording medium at a loading position which is set between an upper head and a lower head. The loading unit includes: an insertion path for guiding the...
5204795 Magnetic recording and reproduction system having opposed magnetic heads  
A magnetic recording and reproduction system having magnetic heads opposing each other across a magnetic disk. The heads have shaped control portions to generate a negative pressure between the...
5187624 Magnetic head carriage with reinforcing ribs  
To reduce the number of parts of a floppy disk drive as well as the steps required for assembling the floppy disk drive, a shielding ring for protecting a magnetic head from the influence of an...
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