Inventor
NAZARIAN ARA W
US22 patents
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WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC
6 patentsUS6445524B1Sep 3, 2002
Method of operating a disk drive for writing to an addressable location after detecting that a head is within a safe-to-write window
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC145 citations98
US6710953B1Mar 23, 2004
Method and disk drive for improving data storage capacity of data tracks using push-down wedges
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC116 citations97
US6614618B1Sep 2, 2003
Disk drive with feed-forward control path that receives a reference position signal to apply a feed-forward command effort at a rate greater than a servo sampling rate
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC124 citations97
US6310742B1Oct 30, 2001
Repeatable runout cancellation in sectored servo disk drive positioning system
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC189 citations97
US6757481B1Jun 29, 2004
Disk drives and disk drive-containing devices having selectively controllable and/or adaptive quiet and high performance modes of operation
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC157 citations94
US6388829B1May 14, 2002
High servo sampling disk drive with minimum overhead
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC34 citations92
WESTERN DIGITAL CORP
6 patentsUS6198584B1Mar 6, 2001
Disk drive with staggered calibration bursts that are disposably located in data regions and method of using the same for calibrating a read head
WESTERN DIGITAL CORP146 citations98
US6141175AOct 31, 2000
Repeatable runout cancellation in sectored servo disk drive positioning system
WESTERN DIGITAL CORP206 citations97
US6122133ASep 19, 2000
Hybrid method of determining a fractional track position of a read transducer in a hard disk drive
WESTERN DIGITAL CORP119 citations97
US6014283AJan 11, 2000
Non-quadrature servo burst pattern for micro-jogging a magnetoresistive head in a magnetic disk drive
WESTERN DIGITAL CORP121 citations97
US5946157AAug 31, 1999
Method of seamlessly recording circumferentially successive servo bursts that overlap one another
WESTERN DIGITAL CORP64 citations96
US5946158AAug 31, 1999
Self-PES linearity calibration method for MR head
WESTERN DIGITAL CORP43 citations92
BROADCOM CORP
5 patentsUS7471481B2Dec 30, 2008
Method for establishing and maintaining radial position for hard disk drive self servo write without seed wedges
BROADCOM CORP26 citations89
US7529059B2May 5, 2009
Method for determining read/write head position based on phase detection of a servo pattern
BROADCOM CORP8 citations81
US7312943B2Dec 25, 2007
Read write (RW) head position control for self servo writing process
BROADCOM CORP12 citations81
US7826167B2Nov 2, 2010
Method for establishing and maintaining radial position for hard disk drive self servo write without seed wedges
BROADCOM CORP2 citations60
US7405899B2Jul 29, 2008
Method for determining read/write head position based on phase detection of a servo pattern
BROADCOM CORP3 citations59