Inventor

SUK MIKE

US57 patents

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SUK MIKE

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH

Disk drive with selectable power source for heater in a slider

Predictive failure analysis of thermal flying height control system and method

Increasing head-disk interface reliability using controlled heating

Eliminating ESD exposure for read/write head with heating element

Method and apparatus for optimizing flying height control using heated sliders

Increasing head-disk interface reliability using controlled heating

Glide-height disk-tester and method of operation

Measurement of slider clearance by inducing collision of the slider with disk surface

Enabling location specific burnishing of a disk

Disk head stability system

Two stage lubrication process for disk drive

Method and apparatus for recovering load/unload zone real estate on data storage media in data storage devices to increase a data storage capacity thereof

Magnetic disk drive with heater to control flying height and manufacturing method thereof

Method and apparatus for dynamically establishing pitch static attitude in hard disk drive

Electrostatic discharge device in a disk drive providing a conductive path between a slider and the disk drive housing thereby protecting against electrostatic discharge

Method, apparatus and program storage device for sensing increased resistance changes in an MR element to detect MR sensor events

Method and apparatus using reverse disk rotation to achieve slider contact with a disk surface

Method for controlling the velocity of an actuator arm in a hard disk drive

Storage of projected presentations

Method, apparatus and program storage device for providing protrusion feedback for a read/write element

Method and apparatus for dynamically establishing roll static attitude in hard disk drive

Spacer ring for disk drive spindle with load/unload feature, latch feature, and tribological overcoat

Method and apparatus for predicting write failure resulting from flying height modulation

Method and apparatus for utilizing an off-center gimbal to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems

Method and apparatus for reducing a suspension gram load to increase head to disk interface reliability for contact recording systems

Method for efficient slider burnishing during drive build

Method and system for a beam projector having data manipulation capabilities

Method and system for a beam projector having an audio capability device

IBM

Air bearing slider having rounded corners

Method of apparatus to characterize and limit the effect of disk damage in a hard disk drive

Hard disk drive with lube on demand actuators

Method and apparatus for removing debris from a slider in a disk drive using load/unload technology

Method and apparatus for unloading head from disk before a shock to a disk drive system

Magnetic storage system having an improved slider having rounded corners to minimize disk damage

Magnetic transducer with wear indicator in a magnetic data storage system

Stiction reduction in disk drives using heating

Multiple zone data storage system and method

Recessed slider trailing edge for reducing stiction

System and method for enhancing load/unload performance of low-flying heads in a disk drive

Offset limiter for reducing potential of disk damage during unload sequence in load/unload disk drive

Active damping control for a disk drive

Multiple zone data storage system and method

Device for preventing mechanical shock-induced damage between actuator and disk in computer hard disk drive

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

System and method for reducing the accumulation of actuator bearing grease in hard disk drives

Air bearing surface design for inducing roll-bias during load/unload sequence

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE NETHERL

System and apparatus for selectively sensing and removing asperities from hard disk drive media utilizing active thermally controlled flying heights

Method for selectively sensing and removing asperities from hard disk drive media utilizing active thermally controlled flying heights

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

Method and apparatus for estimating flying height in a hard disk drive

LEE SUNGCHANG

Detecting touch down and/or assessing quality in a hard disk drive