Inventor

GILLIS DONALD RAY

US56 patents

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GILLIS DONALD RAY

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH

Hard disk drive medical monitor with security encryption

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

Methods and apparatus for thermally bonding lubricant to a disk surface with use of a heating element formed in a magnetic head

Two stage lubrication process for disk drive

Fluid damping structure for hard disk drives and vibration sensitive electronic devices

Hard disk drive medical monitor with GPS

Magnetic disk drive with load/unload structure having lubricant reservoir

Rechargeable hard disk drive medical monitor

Hard disk drive medical monitor with alert signaling system

Plastic spacer and disk clamp assembly

Test probe with thermally activated grip and release

Load/unload system and method for maximizing disk writeable area

Closed loop lubrication system for moving magnetic media

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

Device and method for monitoring lubricant within a disk drive

Lubricant depletion detection in a self-healing disk drive

Protective device for reducing the impact of physical shock

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

Methods and apparatus for thermally bonding lubricant to a disk surface by the repetitive writing of data

Hard disk drive medical monitor with shock-proofing

Load/unload systems and methods for maximizing disk writeable area

Hard disk drive medical monitor with mirrored HDDs

Hard disk drive medical monitor with electrical grounding system

Load/unload system and method for maximizing disk writeable area

Magnetic recording head burnishing method

Method for efficient slider burnishing during drive build

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

Magnetic disk drive with offset load/unload tab

Disk and clamp assembly

Disk assembly having integral clamp and/or spacer

IBM

Active bypass circuit for extending energy capacity and operational life of a multi-cell battery

Method and apparatus for preventing data loss in disk drives using predictive failure analysis of magnetoresistive head resistance

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

System and method for utilizing an actuator-activated pumping mechanism for reducing the operating pressure of a disk drive assembly

Stiction reduction in disk drives using heating

Multiple zone data storage system and method

In-situ pressure sensor based on read head resistance

Recessed slider trailing edge for reducing stiction

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

FELISS NORBERT A

Methods for depositing lubricant onto disks and systems thereof

Predicting operational problems in a hard-disk drive (HDD)

Using an atmospheric pressure sensor in a hard-disk drive (HDD)

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGE TECH NL

Methods and apparatus for thermally bonding lubricant to a disk surface with use of a heat source in a magnetic head

Composite disk clamp assembly with lower layer fixedly coupled to upper layer of smaller diameter

HITACHI GLOBAL STORAGES TECHNO

Method for controlling air pressure in an evacuated disk drive

HITACHI GLOBAL SOTRAGE TECHNOLOGIES NETHERLANDS B V

Dual direction power and data transfer protocol and safety detection