Inventor

GREGORY THOMAS A

US18 patents

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GREGORY THOMAS A

IBM

Disk drive breather filter

Servo controlled lubricant thickness for near contact magnetic recording

Apparatus and method for controlling vapor phase within an enclosure

Method and apparatus for lubricating a magnetic disk continuously in a recording file

Direct access storage device with vapor phase lubricant system and a magnetic disk having a protective layer and immobile physically bonded lubricant layer

Method and apparatus for cleaning disks upon reaching a disk drive start-stop cycle threshold

Method and apparatus for cleaning disks

Slider bearing design for near contact magnetic recording

Integral lubricating fluid delivery system for a flying head in a magnetic disk storage system

Spacer ring reservoir for magnetic recording disk lubricant

Servo controlled lubricant thickness for near magnetic recording

Seal for bearings in small angle oscillation applications

Disk drive lubricant reservoir systems and lubricants used therein

Magnetic slider design for precision wear-in

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH

Magnetic disk drive with load/unload structure having lubricant reservoir

Leak detection system of hard disk drives with lubricant reservoir

Closed loop lubrication system for moving magnetic media

Device and method for monitoring lubricant within a disk drive