Inventor
SEMBA TETSUO
US51 patents
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HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH
21 patentsUS7486470B1Feb 3, 2009
Hard disk drive vibration cancellation using adaptive filter
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH21 citations93
US7206162B2Apr 17, 2007
Seek trajectory generation using adaptive filtering
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH24 citations93
US7145746B1Dec 5, 2006
Disk drive with adaptive control of periodic disturbances
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH23 citations93
US7133229B2Nov 7, 2006
Magnetic recording disk drive with patterned media and compensation for write-clock timing error caused by rotational disturbances
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH31 citations93
US7079339B1Jul 18, 2006
Dual-stage actuator disk drive with method for secondary-actuator failure detection and recovery using a relative-position sensor while track following
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH22 citations92
US7012777B1Mar 14, 2006
Disk drive with capacitance sensing of disk vibration and feedforward control for removal of read/write head track misregistration
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH28 citations92
US7177113B1Feb 13, 2007
Magnetic recording disk drive with switchable rotational vibration cancellation
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH26 citations91
US7486469B1Feb 3, 2009
Minimizing a mechanical mode excitation utilizing a generated seek trajectory
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH8 citations84
US7457076B2Nov 25, 2008
Head seek control method suppressing vibrations and rotatary recorder/reproducer
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH10 citations84
US7450335B2Nov 11, 2008
Reducing read/write head track misregistration
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH12 citations84
US7268968B2Sep 11, 2007
Vibration suppression for servo control
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH18 citations83
US7375916B2May 20, 2008
Magnetic recording disk drive with multiple feedforward controllers for rotational vibration cancellation
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH16 citations82
US7345841B2Mar 18, 2008
Disk drive using a disturbance sensor for disturbance frequency-identification and suppression
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH17 citations82
US7010653B2Mar 7, 2006
Data storage device, command queue re-ordering method, and data processing method and program
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH18 citations82
US7580217B2Aug 25, 2009
Disk drive with hybrid analog-digital acceleration feedforward control system and method for rejecting rotational vibration
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH9 citations79
US7450339B2Nov 11, 2008
Disk drive with support structure for damping plates and disk-vibration capacitive sensors
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH6 citations74
US7292407B2Nov 6, 2007
Disk drive with support structure for disk-vibration capacitive sensors
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH7 citations74
US7277258B2Oct 2, 2007
Dual-stage actuator disk drive with optimal location of the movable portion of the secondary actuator
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH7 citations74
US7826170B2Nov 2, 2010
Apparatus and method for adjusting a feed-forward signal for seek control during a seek operation
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH6 citations63
US7499243B2Mar 3, 2009
Disk drive with support structure for air dams and disk-vibration capacitive sensors
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH1 citations63
US7126784B2Oct 24, 2006
Concurrent data recording and reproducing method, seek operation control method and magnetic disk drive using the methods
HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH3 citations63
HGST Netherlands BV
11 patentsUS9286926B1Mar 15, 2016
Two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) disk drive with varying servo track pitch
HGST Netherlands BV29 citations94
US8842507B1Sep 23, 2014
Heat-assisted magnetic recording disk drive (HAMR) with thermal sensor and laser power prediction
HGST Netherlands BV25 citations93
US9349400B1May 24, 2016
Magnetic recording disk drive with adjustable data track pitch and compensation for repeatable runout (RRO)
HGST Netherlands BV14 citations84
US8625231B1Jan 7, 2014
Adjusting VGA analog gain for misaligned servo sectors in a disk drive
HGST Netherlands BV8 citations84
US9412403B1Aug 9, 2016
Magnetic recording disk drive with position error signal (PES) blocks in the data tracks for compensation of track misregistration
HGST Netherlands BV3 citations73
US8737002B1May 27, 2014
Magnetic recording disk with patterned nondata islands with different sizes and opposite polarity and method for making the disk
HGST Netherlands BV5 citations73
US8379342B2Feb 19, 2013
Magnetic recording disk drive with rotational vibration compensation having adaptive optimization of vibration sensor gains
HGST Netherlands BV5 citations71
US8817405B1Aug 26, 2014
Magnetic recording disk drive with frequency adjustment for misaligned servo patterns
HGST Netherlands BV3 citations63
US9025263B2May 5, 2015
Write current and fly height adjustment for compensating media coercivity variation
HGST Netherlands BV2 citations58
US9324368B2Apr 26, 2016
Method and structure for improving performance and storage density in a data storage device
HGST Netherlands BV0 citations52
US8363348B2Jan 29, 2013
Patterned media with structured PES servo segments encoding local track position
HGST Netherlands BV0 citations52
IBM
10 patentsUS6219196B1Apr 17, 2001
Method and apparatus for suppressing mechanical resonance in a disk drive storage device using a notch filter
IBM73 citations96
US5760991AJun 2, 1998
Disk storage unit positioning control for applying DC offsets to a tracking error
IBM22 citations93
US5504726AApr 2, 1996
Method and apparatus for calibrating focus and tracking error signals in an optical drive with measuring offsets during track jumps
IBM51 citations93
US7035034B2Apr 25, 2006
Data storage device, control device, off-track control method, and control method
IBM26 citations92
US6831809B2Dec 14, 2004
Rotary recording apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus
IBM26 citations92
US6614613B1Sep 2, 2003
Phase technique for active damping in a servo-controlled actuator
IBM32 citations92
US5768228AJun 16, 1998
Method and sytem for cancelling optical servo crosstalk in optical disk drives
IBM18 citations82
US5323368AJun 21, 1994
Track crossing apparatus and method using the difference between pick-up velocity and a predetermined velocity
IBM19 citations74
US5317550AMay 31, 1994
Apparatus and method for track access
IBM17 citations74
US5936919AAug 10, 1999
System for compensating for hard sector noise degradation of tracking error signals in an optical data storage system
IBM6 citations72
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC
3 patentsUS10410657B1Sep 10, 2019
Data storage device employing nominal and adaptive multi-actuator decoupler
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC9 citations84
US9934803B1Apr 3, 2018
Data storage device attenuating multiple actuator coupling disturbance
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC8 citations81
US9792938B1Oct 17, 2017
Data storage device communicating servo information between servo channels of multiple actuators
WESTERN DIGITAL TECH INC19 citations81
DHANDA ABHISHEK
2 patentsHITACHI GLOBAL STORAGETECHNOLO
1 patentHUANG LIDU
1 patentALBRECHT THOMAS R
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