Inventor
NGUYEN THAO ANH
US15 patents
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IBM
10 patentsUS5729399AMar 17, 1998
Contact start/stop disk drive with minimized head-disk wear in textured landing zone
IBM67 citations96
US6013336AJan 11, 2000
Procedure employing a diode-pumped laser for controllably texturing a disk surface
IBM28 citations92
US5768076AJun 16, 1998
Magnetic recording disk having a laser-textured surface
IBM32 citations92
USRE37145EApr 24, 2001
Apparatus for laser texturing disks
IBM18 citations91
US6118632ASep 12, 2000
Magnetic disk stack having laser-bump identifiers on magnetic disks
IBM20 citations91
US5658475AAug 19, 1997
Apparatus for laser texturing disks
IBM26 citations91
US6246543B1Jun 12, 2001
Textured data storage disk having a brittle nonmetallic substrate
IBM17 citations89
US5689057ANov 18, 1997
Calibration disk with disk bumps for calibrating PZT sliders
IBM26 citations89
US5875084AFeb 23, 1999
Magnetic recording disk having protrusions centered in respective depressions
IBM11 citations73
US6205002B1Mar 20, 2001
Disk drive with textured slider contact region
IBM6 citations57
MAXTOR CORP
5 patentsUS7486459B1Feb 3, 2009
Disk drive with performance driven head-to-disk spacing
MAXTOR CORP17 citations91
US7324299B1Jan 29, 2008
Disk drive that positions a head at multiple head-to-disk spacings
MAXTOR CORP47 citations91
US7310194B1Dec 18, 2007
System for monitoring and dynamically adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive
MAXTOR CORP16 citations82
US7509728B1Mar 31, 2009
Method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive
MAXTOR CORP12 citations81
US7310195B1Dec 18, 2007
System and method for adjusting head-to-disk spacing in a disk drive
MAXTOR CORP8 citations72