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US5822153AOct 13, 1998
Hard disk drive having contact write and recessed magnetorestive read head
CENSTOR CORP104 citations97
US5041932AAug 20, 1991
Integrated magnetic read/write head/flexure/conductor structure
CENSTOR CORP118 citations97
US5111351AMay 5, 1992
Integrated magnetic read/write head/flexure/conductor structure
CENSTOR CORP68 citations96
US4423450ADec 27, 1983
Magnetic head and multitrack transducer for perpendicular recording and method for fabricating
CENSTOR CORP81 citations96
US5909340AJun 1, 1999
Hard disk drive having contact write and recessed magnetoresistive read head
CENSTOR CORP62 citations95
US5557488ASep 17, 1996
Gimbaled micro-head/flexure/conductor assembly and system
CENSTOR CORP56 citations95
US5490027AFeb 6, 1996
Gimbaled micro-head/flexure/conductor assembly and system
CENSTOR CORP59 citations95
US4757402AJul 12, 1988
Slider assembly for supporting a magnetic head
CENSTOR CORP66 citations94
US4636894AJan 13, 1987
Recording head slider assembly
CENSTOR CORP63 citations94
US6600631B1Jul 29, 2003
Transducer/flexure/conductor structure for electromagnetic read/write system
CENSTOR CORP45 citations92
US6320725B1Nov 20, 2001
Hard disk drive having ring head with predominantly perpendicular media fields
CENSTOR CORP36 citations92
US6212047B1Apr 3, 2001
Hard disk drive with magnetoresistive head and perpendicular media
CENSTOR CORP38 citations92
US6198607B1Mar 6, 2001
Contact planar magnetoresistive head
CENSTOR CORP25 citations92
US5885131AMar 23, 1999
Interactive device for lapping transducers
CENSTOR CORP55 citations92
US5632669AMay 27, 1997
Interactive method for lapping transducers
CENSTOR CORP53 citations92
US5453315ASep 26, 1995
Unitary micro-flexure structure and method of making same
CENSTOR CORP37 citations92
US5174012ADec 29, 1992
Method of making magnetic read/write head/flexure/conductor unit(s)
CENSTOR CORP22 citations92
US5163218ANov 17, 1992
Method of making integrated magnetic read/write head/flexure/conductor structure
CENSTOR CORP42 citations92
US5073242ADec 17, 1991
Method of making integrated magnetic read/write head/flexure/conductor structure
CENSTOR CORP35 citations92
US4751598AJun 14, 1988
Thin-film, cross-field, closed-flux, anisotropic electromagnetic field device
CENSTOR CORP32 citations92
US6493191B1Dec 10, 2002
Planar magnetic ring head for contact recording with a rigid disk
CENSTOR CORP26 citations91
US5949612ASep 7, 1999
Low friction sliding hard disk drive system
CENSTOR CORP47 citations91
US5063712ANov 12, 1991
Micro-burnishing flex head structure
CENSTOR CORP60 citations91
US5625515AApr 29, 1997
Compact, high-speed, rotary actuator and transducer assembly with reduced moment of inertia and mass-balanced structural overlap with drive motor, and organizing method for the same
CENSTOR CORP22 citations90
US4860139AAug 22, 1989
Planarized read/write head and method
CENSTOR CORP23 citations82
US5550691AAug 27, 1996
Size-independent, rigid-disk, magnetic, digital-information storage system with localized read/write enhancements
CENSTOR CORP38 citations81
US5396388AMar 7, 1995
Compact, high-speed, rotary actuator and transducer assembly with reduced moment of inertia and mass-balanced structural overlap with drive motor and organizing method for the same
CENSTOR CORP18 citations80
US6160685ADec 12, 2000
Hard disk drive with lightly contacting head
CENSTOR CORP10 citations74
US6535361B2Mar 18, 2003
Contact planar magnetoresistive head
CENSTOR CORP7 citations73
US6411470B1Jun 25, 2002
Durable, low-vibration, dynamic-contact hard disk drive system
CENSTOR CORP12 citations73
US5483025AJan 9, 1996
Unitary micro-flexure structure
CENSTOR CORP7 citations73
US5476131ADec 19, 1995
Unitary micro-flexure structure and method of making same
CENSTOR CORP6 citations73