Inventor

TAM ANDREW CHING

US37 patents

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TAM ANDREW CHING

IBM

Magnetic head having a heater circuit for thermally-assisted writing

Method and tool for laser texturing of glass substrates

Method of laser cutting a metal line on an MR head

Laser cutting method for forming magnetic recording head sliders

Optical apparatus for monitoring profiles of textured spots during a disk texturing process

Laser texturing apparatus with dual laser paths having an independently adjusted parameter

Method for adjusting curvature of magnetic read/write head sliders

Slider row with segmented scribe lines for individual control curvature of sliders in the row

Apparatus for measuring curvature of magnetic read/write head sliders

Method of laser cutting a metal line on an MR head with a laser

Procedure employing a diode-pumped laser for controllably texturing a disk surface

Method and tool for laser texturing of glass substrates

Microscopic bar code for component identification and method for making same

Magnetic recording disk having a laser-textured surface

Curvature adjustment of sliders by scribing of slider suspension

Apparatus for laser texturing disks

Magnetic disk stack having laser-bump identifiers on magnetic disks

Optical apparatus for inspecting laser texture

Apparatus for laser texturing disks

Read head with N-cycle switch for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection

Textured data storage disk having a brittle nonmetallic substrate

Calibration disk with disk bumps for calibrating PZT sliders

Multiple channel acousto-optic modulators

Combination transducer/slider/suspension

Laser system for simultaneous texturing of two sides of a substrate

Laser texturing system providing even heating of textured spots on a rotating disk

Magnetic head having a heater circuit for thermally-assisted writing

Surface inspection tool using a parabolic mirror

Magnetic recording disk having protrusions centered in respective depressions

Controlling pulses in a laser texturing tool

Optical apparatus for dual-beam laser texturing

Controlling a laser texturing tool having two handling stations for disks to be textured and a single texturing station

Method for controlling laser power in a texturing process

Disk drive with textured slider contact region

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH

Slider curvature modification by substrate melting effect produced with a pulsed laser beam

Slider produced by slider curvature modification by substrate melting produced with a pulsed laser beam

Laser textured magnetic disk