Assignee
MAXTOR CORP
US·715 granted patents·14 pending applications·20,881 citations·filing 1982–2007
Top patents by PatentIndex Score
729 records- 0198US7403357B1Disk drive flexure assembly with a plurality of support bond pad apertures with a bond pad disposed over a bond pad support and part of each support bond pad apertureMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jul 22, 2008·77 cites·36 claims
- 0298US7308057B1Baseline wander compensation for perpendicular recordingMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 11, 2007·100 cites·17 claims
- 0398US6381726B1Architecture for soft decision decoding of linear block error correcting codesMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 30, 2002·208 cites·20 claims
- 0497US7573683B1Write heads with floating side shields and manufacturing methodsMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Aug 11, 2009·44 cites·24 claims
- 0597US7430095B2Tapered write pole for reduced skew effectMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Sep 30, 2008·40 cites·19 claims
- 0697US7375918B1Method of self-servo writing in a disk drive using multiple timing windowsMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted May 20, 2008·84 cites·50 claims
- 0797US7369345B1Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protectionMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted May 6, 2008·82 cites·56 claims
- 0897US7266750B1Error recovery strategies for iterative decodersMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 4, 2007·87 cites·34 claims
- 0997US7253984B1Disk drive that generates a position error signal and a fly height signal from a servo burst patternMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Aug 7, 2007·95 cites·19 claims
- 1097US7230790B1Magnetic disk drive with servo bursts and alternating magnetic polarity regions therebetweenMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 12, 2007·40 cites·11 claims
- 1197US7230789B1Method and apparatus for performing a self-servo write operation in a disk drive using spiral servo informationMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jun 12, 2007·91 cites·26 claims
- 1297US7154690B1Dynamic shock detection in disk drive using accumulated average position errorMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Dec 26, 2006·40 cites·50 claims
- 1397US7019924B2Patterned medium and recording headMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Mar 28, 2006·100 cites·51 claims
- 1497US6975123B1Method and apparatus for calibrating piezoelectric driver in dual actuator disk driveMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 13, 2005·118 cites·9 claims
- 1597US6842313B1Floating down stream perpendicular write head shieldMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jan 11, 2005·77 cites·52 claims
- 1697US6519107B1Hard disk drive having self-written servo burst patternsMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Feb 11, 2003·241 cites·36 claims
- 1797US5546250AElastomer gasket that extends around the outer edge of a hard driveMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Aug 13, 1996·147 cites·8 claims
- 1896US7684146B1Hermetic seal for a spindle motor of a disk driveMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Mar 23, 2010·54 cites·19 claims
- 1996US7345837B1Disk drive that refreshes data on portions of a disk based on a number of write operations theretoMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Mar 18, 2008·43 cites·15 claims
- 2096US7283321B1Disk drives and methods allowing for dual stage actuator adaptive seek control and microactuator gain calibrationMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Oct 16, 2007·57 cites·45 claims
- 2196US7173783B1Media noise optimized detector for magnetic recordingMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 6, 2007·92 cites·100 claims
- 2296US7158325B1Disk drive head touchdown detection with improved discriminationMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Jan 2, 2007·71 cites·130 claims
- 2396US7154689B1Apparatus for writing servo bursts on a disk with servo track pitch based on read element width and methods of manufacturing sameMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 26, 2006·75 cites·21 claims
- 2496US7088533B1Method of self-servo writing in a disk drive using a spiral patternMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Aug 8, 2006·98 cites·100 claims
- 2596US7075756B1Shielded pole writerMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 11, 2006·62 cites·41 claims
- 2696US6961203B1Hybrid printed servo patterns for magnetic media and hard disk systems implementing sameMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Nov 1, 2005·78 cites·110 claims
- 2796US6950277B1Concave trailing edge write pole for perpendicular recordingMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Sep 27, 2005·98 cites·16 claims
- 2896US6704156B1Self-writing of servo patterns in a disk drive using a printed reference patternMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 9, 2004·147 cites·54 claims
- 2996US6374383B1Determining error locations using error correction codesMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Apr 16, 2002·143 cites·23 claims
- 3096US6336174B1Hardware assisted memory backup system and methodMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Jan 1, 2002·391 cites·80 claims
- 3196US5454157AMethod of manufacturing a hermetically sealed disk driveMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1994·Granted Oct 3, 1995·188 cites·29 claims
- 3295US7813083B2Disk drive load arm structure having a strain sensor and method of its fabricationMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Oct 12, 2010·36 cites·19 claims
- 3395US7596196B1Timing recovery in error recovery for iterative detectionMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 29, 2009·34 cites·20 claims
- 3495US7474491B2Adaptive write unsafe thresholds for self servo writingMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jan 6, 2009·20 cites·21 claims
- 3595US7362536B1Disk drive that compensates for phase incoherence between radially adjacent servo tracks and methods thereofMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 22, 2008·83 cites·23 claims
- 3695US7350394B1Zero-g offset identification of an accelerometer employed in a hard disk driveMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Apr 1, 2008·29 cites·8 claims
- 3795US7324299B1Disk drive that positions a head at multiple head-to-disk spacingsMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2005·Granted Jan 29, 2008·47 cites·24 claims
- 3895US7199956B1Disk drive self-servo writing using fundamental and higher harmonics of a printed reference patternMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 3, 2007·53 cites·160 claims
- 3995US7019937B1Method and apparatus for determining a transducer's reference position in a disk drive having a disk surface with spiral servo information written thereonMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2004·Granted Mar 28, 2006·60 cites·31 claims
- 4095US6894854B1Disk drive which detects head flying height using first and second non-overlapping data patterns with different frequenciesMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2001·Granted May 17, 2005·61 cites·42 claims
- 4195US6883079B1Method and apparatus for using data compression as a means of increasing buffer bandwidthMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 19, 2005·190 cites·43 claims
- 4295US6882489B1Dynamic off-track detectorMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 19, 2005·52 cites·43 claims
- 4395US6738205B1Self-writing of servo patterns in disk drivesMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2001·Granted May 18, 2004·264 cites·88 claims
- 4495US6525899B2Hermetically sealed data storage device with adhesive sealMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2002·Granted Feb 25, 2003·65 cites·23 claims
- 4595US6446236B1Reading encoded information subject to random and transient errorsMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Sep 3, 2002·129 cites·26 claims
- 4695US4953041ARead channel detector for use in digital magnetic recording systemsMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1989·Granted Aug 28, 1990·61 cites·17 claims
- 4795US4754351AMethod and apparatus for controlling radial disk displacement in Winchester disk drivesMAXTOR CORP·Filed 1985·Granted Jun 28, 1988·70 cites·6 claims
- 4894US7636222B1Tuned mass actuator arms for decreasing track misregistration in a depopulated head suspension disk driveMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Dec 22, 2009·33 cites·41 claims
- 4994US7559008B1Nested LDPC encoders and decoderMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2006·Granted Jul 7, 2009·31 cites·11 claims
- 5094US7551387B2Servo writing with offset compensation for prewritten referenceMAXTOR CORP·Filed 2007·Granted Jun 23, 2009·26 cites·22 claims
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