Inventor

ALBRECHT THOMAS ROBERT

US39 patents

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ALBRECHT THOMAS ROBERT

IBM

Timing based servo system for magnetic tape systems

Timing based servo system for magnetic tape systems

Timing based servo system for magnetic tape systems

Timing based servo system for magnetic tape systems

Timing based servo longitudinal addressing

Timing based servo system for magnetic tape systems

Bistable micromechanical switches

Disk drive with composite sheet metal and encapsulated plastic base

Shock mount for a device packaged in a portable cartridge

Flying height adjustment for air bearing sliders

Contact start/stop disk drive with minimized head-disk wear in textured landing zone

Serial bitstream code for timing-based servo

Storage device mounted in portable data storage media type cartridges

Lapping monitor for monitoring the lapping of transducers

Load/unload disk drive with multistage retract circuit for parking the head carriers on power down

Pulse modulated capacitive retract device for a voice coil actuator

Magnetic disk stack having laser-bump identifiers on magnetic disks

Gripper assembly for interfacing with portable storage devices in a storage library

Head-disk interface tester with optically servo controlled rotary voice coil motor actuator

Method of protecting read sensors from electrostatic discharge damage during the manufacture of magnetic heads

Melting and refreezing method for smothing and load/unloading lift tab for disk drive smoothed lift tab and gimbal assembly and data storage device incorporating smoothed lift tab

ALBRECHT THOMAS ROBERT

Magnetoresistive sensor having a structure for activating and deactivating electrostatic discharge prevention circuitry

System and apparatus for patterned media with reduced magnetic trench material

Patterned media for self-servowriting integrated servo fields

System, method and apparatus for master pattern generation, including servo patterns, for ultra-high density discrete track media using e-beam and self-assembly of block copolymer microdomains

Off-axis ion milling device for manufacture of magnetic recording media and method for using the same

Method of manufacturing a bit patterned media on a magnetic media disk

Magnetoresistive sensor having a structure for activating and deactivating electrostatic discharge prevention circuitry

Servo patterns for patterned media

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH

Positioning of a magnetic head in a magnetic data recording device using a multiple sensor array

Servo patterns for patterned media

Method apparatus and system for accessing discontinuous media tracks

Actuator retract circuit for dual speed hard disk drive

Apparatus, system, and method for increasing data storage density in patterned media

Method and apparatus for creating a topographically patterned substrate

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH NL

Apparatus, method and system for fabricating servo patterns on high density patterned media

System, method, and apparatus for characterizing, tracking, and segregating known defective disk regions on patterned disks

Encryption methods for patterned media watermarking

HGST Netherlands BV

System, method and apparatus for master pattern generation, including servo patterns, for ultra-high density discrete track media using E-beam and self-assembly of block copolymer microdomains