Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval inventions 12/06

20060291082 - Extending lock-in range of a pll or dll: A method, circuit and drive for improving clock recovery in clock/data signals are provided. A timing reference is provided to a locking loop circuit, such as a PLL. The timing reference is updated based on an expectation of a frequency of a clock being recovered. A system clock tracked to... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20060291083 - Cinematic media content storage system including a digital storage memory module: Pursuant to these various embodiments, a cinematic media content storage system can be comprised of a memory module interface (503 and 504) and at least one digital storage memory module (100). The memory module interface is preferably configured and arranged to compatibly mechanically and electrically couple with the memory module... Agent: Fitch Even Tabin And Flannery

20060291084 - Drive indicating mechanism for removable media: A system (and associated method) comprises a storage drive and a central processing unit (“CPU”). The storage drive is adapted to accommodate a removable storage medium. The CPU is configured to execute code to cause the CPU to write data to an addressable unit of the storage medium and also... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20060291085 - Storage system having a power source state detection unit: A storage system capable of reducing the start-up time of disk drives is provided. If a power source monitor circuit itself is normal (S93), the power source monitor circuit reads a detection signal from a detection circuit, and checks power sources (S94). If the power sources are normal (S95), all... Agent: Reed Smith LLP Suite 1400

20060291086 - Adaptive control of head velocity during data storage device startup: A control method is provided for loading a data transfer head to a data storage medium comprising: determining a desired maximum displacement between a parked position of the head and an encroaching position of the head in relation to a selected data storage track of the medium; determining a spin... Agent: Derek J. Berger Seagate Technology LLC

20060291088 - Magnetic disk device with positioning control: In a magnetic disk device, oscillation occurring at a frequency higher than Nyquist frequency is suppressed. In one embodiment, a multi-late filter having a resonance point at a frequency higher than the intended Nyquist frequency is introduced in a previous stage of a controlled object. At that time, since a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20060291087 - Method and apparatus compensating disturbance in state control device: A method and system are disclosed for compensating disturbance applied to a plant, such as a HDD component, controlled by a state control device having an estimator & controller. The estimator & controller is adapted to generate a first control signal in response to a state signal indicating an estimated... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20060291089 - Write control method of hard disk drive, hard disk drive adapting the method and recording medium thereof: The present invention relates to a write control method of a hard disk drive, a hard disk drive adapting the method, and a recording medium storing a program for executing the method. The write control method of a hard disk drive having a disk where servo bursts are written radially... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060291090 - Servo systems, servo heads, servo patterns for data storage especially for reading, writing, and recording in magnetic recording tape: Methods and systems for data recording and reading for increasing overall tape data storage density, especially for data written in azimuth style. The principles of the invention provide servo formats and systems that allow accurate on track guidance for higher density applications and that are less sensitive to off track... Agent: Kagan Binder, PLLC

20060291091 - Media cartridge autoloader: A media cartridge autoloader is disclosed. A rotary arm that operates a cartridge transporter is rotated in one direction to reach a reference position. With reference to the reference position, the rotary arm is rotated through a predetermined angle in the opposite direction to reach a position, which is defined... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20060291092 - Recording and/or reproducing device having a clutch member with a controllable play: A clutch member coupling a first gear with a second gear with a play has a first clutch gear engaged with the first gear and a second clutch gear engaged with the second gear. Between the first clutch gear and the second clutch gear, a torsion spring for imparting the... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20060291094 - Magnetic recording medium drive capable of suppressing vibration of flexible printed circuit board: A head actuator member supports a head slider at the tip end. A first fixing member is integrated with the enclosure at a position spaced from the head actuator member by a predetermined distance. A second fixing member firmly hold the folded section of a flexible printed circuit board against... Agent: Patrick G. Burns, Esq. Greer, Burns & Crain, Ltd.

20060291093 - Overmold component seal in an electronic device housing: In general, the invention is directed to techniques for forming a seal between parts of an overmold component. The overmold component includes a first part forming one or more thorough-holes and a second part overmolded to the first part. A through-hole may be, for example, a screw hole or an... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20060291095 - Magnetic disk apparatus: A magnetic disk apparatus includes a base body of which one surface is opened, a cover part covering the opened surface of the base body, and a recording and reproducing part provided on the base body and having a magnetic disk and a magnetic head received in a space formed... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20060291097 - Magnetic sensing element having reactive-ion-etching stop layer and process for producing same: A magnetic sensing element including a laminate and a bias layer is provided. A first reactive-ion-etching (RIE) stop layer is disposed on a free magnetic layer. Second RIE stop layers are disposed on bias layers. The first and second RIE stop layers function as stop layers when layers on the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060291096 - Thin-film magnetic head: A thin-film magnetic head for perpendicular magnetic recording comprises a coil, a main magnetic pole layer for performing perpendicular recording, a write shield layer and a write gap layer, wherein the main magnetic pole layer comprises a main pole film portion and a yoke pole film portion. The write shield... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291098 - Thin-film magnetic head with heating element and heatsink: A thin-film magnetic head that has an improved protrusion efficiency under the condition of not only assuring the reliability of the-heating operation, but also stabilizing the read output is provided. The head comprises: a magnetic head element for writing and/or reading data signals; a heating element for generating heat at... Agent: Martin Novack

20060291099 - Disc cartridge, and disc recording and/or reproducing device using the same: A disk cartridge is provided that has an optical disk (2) encased therein. It includes a cartridge body (5) having formed therein a head opening (13) through which a part of the disk, ranging from the inner to outer radius, is exposed to outside, a shutter member (21) including a... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060291100 - Thin film structure having a soft magnetic interlayer: A thin film structure that includes a hard magnetic recording layer, a soft magnetic underlayer and an intermediate layer between the hard magnetic recording layer and the soft magnetic underlayer is disclosed. The intermediate layer comprises a soft magnetic interlayer, and a non-magnetic interlayer between the soft magnetic interlayer and... Agent: Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon LLP

20060291101 - Head position control method, head position control device, and disk device: A position control device corrects the displacement of the head by disturbance applied to the disk device by the control system. An adaptive control to an unknown disturbance frequency is performed. The frequency estimation block for estimating the external vibration frequency from a signal that is based on the position... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20060291102 - Suspension for mounting magnetic head slider, head gimbal assembly and hard disk drive: There is provided a suspension capable of suppressing deformation of a magnetic head slider mounted thereon. At the same time, there are provided high-quality head gimbal assembly and hard disk drive capable of achieving stable writing and reading of data. It is a suspension comprising a tongue face for mounting... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20060291103 - System and method for damage prevention by improving the shock resistance of a hard disk actuator arm: A system and method are disclosed for improving the vibration/ mechanical shock-resistance of a hard disk actuator arm. A guide block is located behind the actuator arm's angular range of motion, preventing over-flexure/vibration during operation, and/or the drive's actuator screw head diameter is increased to minimize arm vibration.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20060291104 - Tuned damper for disk drive actuator arm: Embodiments of the present invention include a disk drive actuator arm for reducing amplitude of vibration modes substantially planar to a disk surface. The actuator arm comprises a plurality of head arms coupled to the actuator arm, the head arms substantially equally spaced and substantially parallel to each other. The... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao, LLP

20060291106 - Magnetic sensor and current sensor: The present invention provides a current sensor capable of detecting a current magnetic field generated by a current to be detected with high precision and stability while realizing a compact configuration. The current sensor has: first and second magnetoresistive elements each including a pinned layer having a magnetization direction pinned... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20060291108 - Exchange-coupled free layer with out-of-plane magnetization: A magnetoresistive element is provided as a spin valve having a synthetic free layer. More specifically, the synthetic free layer includes a low perpendicular anisotropy layer that is separated from a high perpendicular anisotropy layer by a spacer. Thus, the high anisotropy material introduces an out-of-plane component by exchange coupling.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291107 - Magnetoresistive element with tilted in-stack bias: An in-stack bias is provided for stabilizing the free layer of a magneto-resistive sensor. More specifically, a stabilizer layer provided above a free layer has a tilted magnetization. As a result of this tilt, the interlayer coupling between the free layer and the pinned layer is reduced, and the related... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060291105 - Fabrication of magnetic tunnel junctions with epitaxial and textured ferromagnetic layers: This invention relates to magnetic tunnel junctions and methods for making the magnetic tunnel junctions. The magnetic tunnel junctions include a tunnel barrier oxide layer sandwiched between two ferromagnetic layers both of which are epitaxial or textured with respect to the underlying substrate upon which the magnetic tunnel junctions are... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20060285238 - Disk device and method of generating signal representing head: A signal processing device having a feature of analog-to-digital converting a burst signal has a feature of selecting data bus to notify a disk control device 2 of a conversion result via an NRZ data bus. The disk control device 2 includes means for storing the result of the analog-to-digital... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20060285237 - Mitigation of mr read head distortion: Mitigation of distortion of read signals from magneto-resistive read head(s) are provided in various embodiments of the present invention. In one embodiment, the read signals provided to a read channel having an analog to digital converter and digital equalizer. Digital peak measurement apparatus is configured to sense the output of... Agent: John H. Holcombe IBM Corporation,IPLaw Dept.

20060285239 - Moving image processing apparatus: Provided is a moving image processing apparatus that helps simplify the generation of an index image enabling easy identification of a series of moving images with the same program title that has been recorded according to the cyclic recording. With respect to the moving images with the same program title... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP

20060285240 - Environmental watch device for magnetic storage: A tape media carrier has a tape medium for storing data, a rotatable element, such as a tape reel, bearing the tape medium, and a transducer within the tape media carrier. The transducer includes a sensor element and a detector for detecting at least one attribute of the sensor element... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20060285241 - Reproducing method, reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing apparatus, and magnetic recording medium: A recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a recording section for recording an information signal in a magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer including hexagonal ferrite; a reproducing section for reproducing the information signal recorded in the magnetic recording medium, the reproducing section including: a reproducing head for reading the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060285242 - Disk drive with localized clearance and contact potential measurement capability: A method and system for determining localized contact potential voltages and localized clearance data between a slider body and a hard disk of a hard disk drive. In embodiments of the present invention, a plurality of direct current (DC) pulses are applied between said slider body and a discreet location... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20060285243 - Measurement of slider body clearance in a magnetic disk drive using positive and negative electrical pulses: A method and system for measuring slider body clearance in a hard disk drive using positive and negative electrical pulses. In one embodiment, at least one positive direct current (DC) pulse is applied between a slider body and a hard disk of the hard disk drive. Furthermore, at least one... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20060285244 - Servo systems, servo heads, servo patterns for data storage especially for reading, writing, and recording in magnetic recording tape: Methods and systems for data recording and reading for increasing overall tape data storage density, especially for data written in azimuth style. The principles of the invention provide servo formats and systems that allow accurate on track guidance for higher density applications and that are less sensitive to off track... Agent: Kagan Binder, PLLC

20060285245 - Activated carbon fiber filter for a data storage system: A data storage system includes a housing, one or more data storage media disposed within the housing, and an filter comprising activated carbon fibers disposed within the housing. The activated carbon fiber filter includes activated carbon fibers configured to adsorb both chemical contaminants and particulate contaminants within the housing. The... Agent: Bryan F. Erickson Westman, Champlin & Kelly

20060285246 - Disc drive capable of decreasing noise: A disc drive includes a housing, a workbench, and a panel. The housing includes an opening, a protection plane, a baffler plane formed on a side of disc ejection and extended from one edge of the protection plane, a support plane extended from the baffler plane, and a flange extended... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20060285247 - Spindle motor and recording disk drive having spindle motor: Using a simple and inexpensive method, a reliable spindle motor having a simple and inexpensive structure is afforded, in which contact failure of the FPC does not occur even when the motor undergoes external impact. An extending portion is provided radially outer side of an annular recess of a base.... Agent: Judge & MurakamiIPAssociates

20060285248 - Writer heater for recording heads: A transducing device having a storage interface surface includes a writer having a pole tip region, a coil having a width positioned around the writer, and a heating element. The heating element extends to near the storage interface surface. A portion of the heating element is at least as wide... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20060285252 - Head assembly with reduced psa tilt: A head assembly for a data storage device. The head assembly has a suspension. The head assembly also includes a contact pad coupled to the suspension, such that the contact pad does not overlap the stainless steel edge of the suspension, thereby allowing greater flexibility for the contact pad. The... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao, LLP

20060285249 - Method for reducing psa tilt in femto format sliders through increased adhesive area: A head assembly for a data storage device. The head assembly has a suspension. The head assembly also includes a contact pad coupled to the suspension. The head assembly also includes a slider. The slider is coupled to the suspension at the slider mounting point. The slider mounting point is... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20060285250 - Method for reducing psa tilt through increased flexibility of contact pads: A head assembly for a data storage device. The head assembly has a suspension. The head assembly also includes a contact pad coupled to the suspension, such that the contact pad does not overlap the stainless steel edge of the suspension, thereby allowing greater flexibility for the contact pad.... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20060285251 - Method for reducing psa tilt through standoff relocation: A head assembly for a data storage device. The head assembly has a suspension. The head assembly also includes a contact pad coupled to the suspension. The head assembly also includes a slider. The slider is coupled to the suspension at the slider mounting point. The slider mounting point is... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP

20060285253 - Unified suspension laminate: One embodiment of the present invention provides a unified suspension that includes an integral, continuous laminate, which has a thick actuator arm portion, a thin pre-load portion, and a beam portion, all formed of the same single laminate. The pre-load portion is integrally connected to the actuator arm portion, is... Agent: Bryan F. Erickson Westman, Champlin & Kelly

20060285254 - Vehicle mirror system with reduced friction actuation and movement: A vehicular external rearview mirror system comprises a support arm pivotally connected to a base assembly attached to the vehicle. The pivot connection comprises an assembly of rotating plates separated by ball bearings and operated by a powerfold assembly. During normal operation of the mirror system, the ball bearings remained... Agent: Mcgarry Bair PC

20060285255 - Micro-mechanical device, micro-switch, variable capacitor high frequency circuit and optical switch: A micro-mechanical device includes a first piezoelectric actuator including a piezoelectric film, and lower and upper electrodes interleaving the piezoelectric film, and extending from a first fixing part on a substrate to a first operating end, and a second piezoelectric actuator connected to the first piezoelectric actuator via a connecting... Agent: C. Irvin Mcclelland Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20060285256 - Dual-stage actuator disk drive with optimal location of the movable portion of the secondary actuator: A dual-stage actuator disk drive has both a rotary primary actuator and a rotary secondary actuator. When the primary actuator initiates a seek there are two torque components acting on the center of mass of the secondary actuator's moving portion. The center of rotation of the moving portion is located... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20060285257 - Magnetic recording disk drive having read head with high cross-track resolution and disk with low bit-aspect-ratio: A continuous-media or patterned-media disk drive with a low ratio of linear bit density in bits per inch (BPI) in the along-the-track direction to track density in tracks per inch (TPI) in the cross-track direction has a magnetoresistive read head with high cross-track spatial resolution. The read head is located... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20060285258 - Magnetic sensing element including free layer containing half-metal: A magnetic sensing element includes a multilayer film including a pinned magnetic layer in which the magnetization direction is pinned in one direction, a free magnetic layer, and a nonmagnetic layer provided between the pinned magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer. In the magnetic sensing element, at least one... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060285259 - Method for enhancing thermal stability, improving biasing and reducing damage from electrostatic discharge in self-pinned abutted junction heads: A method for enhancing thermal stability, improving biasing and reducing damage from electrical surges in self-pinned abutted junction heads. The method includes forming a free layer, forming first hard bias layers abutting the free layer and forming second hard bias layers over the first hard bias layers discontinguous from the... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

20060279868 - Reproducing method, reproducing apparatus, recording and reproducing apparatus, and magnetic recording medium: A recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a recording section for recording an information signal in a magnetic recording medium in which a magnetic layer containing hexagonal ferrite is formed; and a reproducing section for reproducing the information signal recorded in the magnetic recording medium, the reproducing section including: a reproducing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060279870 - Method of controlling track seek in hdd and a recording medium therefor: Provided is a hard disc drive controlling method, and more particularly, a method of controlling track seek in a hard disc drive (HDD) provided against a shift between discs, and a computer readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program for the method. The method of controlling track seek... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20060279869 - Storage system controlling power supply module and fan: When a disk device corresponding to a logical volume is started, a disk system determines and starts a disk device and a fan to be started, while comprehensively considering heat quantity generated by the disk device to be started, the cooling capacity of the fan, and the electric power consumption... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP

20060279871 - Method for formatting a magnetic recording disk with patterned nondata islands of alternating polarity: A method for formatting a magnetic recording disk with patterned nondata islands having alternating magnetization polarity in the along-the-track direction involves clocking write pulses to switch the magnetization direction of alternate, i.e., every other, nondata island. The clocking is controlled by the previously determined phase of the regions containing the... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20060279872 - Method of controlling an actuator, and disk apparatus using the same method: A disk apparatus includes (a) an actuator having a head supporting arm with a tab formed on the arm and a voice coil fixed to the arm, which arm is rotatable on a horizontal rotary shaft as well as on a vertical rotary shaft, (b) a voice coil motor having... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20060279873 - Disk drive with phase-quadrature servo pattern and demodulated position error signal insensitive to timing and phase-misalignment errors: A magnetic recording disk drive uses a phase-quadrature position-error-signal (PES) pattern and a servo signal demodulator that is insensitive to clock errors and phase-misalignment errors. The disk has angularly-spaced servo sectors, with each servo sector having radially-spaced servo tracks that contain a phase-quadrature pattern of servo blocks. A first band... Agent: Thomas R. Berthold

20060279874 - Method and system for rotational control of data storage devices: Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control... Agent: Searete LLC Suite 110

20060279875 - Storage apparatus casing with interchangeable disk drive and control boxes: The invention provides a casing for a storage apparatus having a first receiving portion for receiving a disc drive box in which a plurality of disc drives are received in a line, the first receiving portion being approximately equal in height and width to the disc drive box, and a... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20060279876 - Spindle motor winding for miniature hard disk drive: A spindle motor for implementation in a low profile hard disk drive is described; that spindle motor having a novel configuration for the torque generating portion. The spindle motor includes a hub coupled with a disk platter; that has a rotational axis about a suitable bearing system. A stator portion... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao, LLP

20060279877 - Head to disc interface tunneling giant magnetoresistive sensor: A transducer for magnetically reading and writing information is disclosed. The present invention eases the intricate process of wafer thin film deposition and bar lapping by proposing a transducer including a first and second member, both of which perform the reading and writing function of the transducer. The present invention... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC

20060279878 - Magnetic disk unit and magnetic head slider: In a magnetic disk unit, the flying height margin of a magnetic recording element part during recording is reduced, whereby improvement in recording density and increase in capacity or decrease in size of the unit is realized. In one embodiment, a magnetic disk unit has a magnetic disk arranged in... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20060279879 - Thin-film magnetic head wafer and method for manufacturing the wafer: A thin-film magnetic head wafer includes a first principal surface and a second principal surface which are substantially parallel to each other. An electrical/magnetic transducer is provided on the first principal surface. Identification information is recorded on the first principal surface of the wafer.... Agent: Neomax Co., Ltd. C/o Keating & Bennett, LLP

20060279880 - Suspension with sway beam micropositioning: An actuator suspension comprising a base supporting a load beam. The base defines a mount and a compliant sway portion. The compliant sway portion comprises a sway beam depending proximally from the mount and distally supporting the load beam. The suspension further comprises a piezoelectric element motor attached to the... Agent: Derek J. Berger Seagate Technology LLC

20060279882 - Magnetic detecting element having rie-resistant film and method of manufacturing the same: There is provided a magnetic detecting element and a method of manufacturing the same. An intermediate layer and a corrosion preventing layer are laminated on a free magnetic layer. The corrosion preventing layer prevents the free magnetic layer from corroding due to reactive ion etching. Therefore, a laminator can be... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060279881 - Tunneling magnetic sensing element having two-layer insulating film and method for fabricating same: A magnetic sensing element is provided. The magnetic sensing element includes a laminate disposed on a conductive layer. The laminate having a structure including a pinned magnetic layer, a nonmagnetic layer, and a free magnetic layer disposed in that order from the bottom, first insulating films disposed at both sides... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20060274445 - Ensuring rate of spin-up/spin-down cycles for spindle motor in a hard disk drive does not exceed rate spindle motor is designed to handle: A method, computer program product and hard disk drive for restricting a rate of spin-up/spin-down cycles for a spindle motor in a hard disk drive. The firmware in the hard disk drive determines a maximum rate of spin-up/spin-down cycles the spindle motor is designed to handle over a designated period... Agent: Kelly K. Kordzik Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC

20060274446 - Distributed servo patterns for data storage media: The invention is directed to a data storage medium that includes a plurality of servo bands distributed across the data storage medium and a plurality of data tracks positioned between each of the plurality of distributed servo bands. The data storage medium comprises a servo band pitch of less than... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20060274447 - Conning motor hub surface apparatus for hard disk drives: A disk mounting hub has a disk-mounting face formed at one end as a truncated conical surface of revolution symmetric about a central axis. A cylindrical inner hub member is coaxial with the hub body outside diameter and the surrounding mounting face. The inner hub member is adapted to receive... Agent: Gregory Smith & Associates

20060274448 - Hydrodynamic bearing device and disk rotating apparatus: In a hydrodynamic bearing device in which a radial bearing face having a dynamic pressure generating groove on a shaft or an inner periphery of a sleeve is provided and a clearance between the shaft and the sleeve is filled with lubricant, an annular depression is provided on one end... Agent: Gregory A. Stobbs

20060274449 - Magnetic recording medium defining a recording surface having improved smoothness characteristics: A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a support layer, and a magnetic recording layer. The substrate defines a first surface. The support layer is formed over the first surface of the substrate. The magnetic recording layer is formed over the support layer and has a resistivity less than about... Agent: Attention: Eric D. Levinson Imation Corp.

20060274450 - Suspension bend section with stiffness-reducing features: An actuator load beam comprising a preload bend section defining an array of differently configured stiffness-reducing features. The stiffness-reducing features are characteristically sized in inverse relation to a respective distance from a longitudinal centerline of the actuator load beam at the preload bend section. An associated method comprising determining a... Agent: Derek J. Berger Seagate Technology LLC

20060274453 - Method for utilizing a stainless steel framework for changing the resonance frequency range of a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly: A method for utilizing a stainless steel framework for changing the resonance frequency range of a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly is disclosed. The method provides a slider coupled with the head gimbal assembly, the slider having a read/write head element thereon. In addition, a flexure nose... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20060274452 - Method for utilizing a suspension flexure polyimide material web to dampen a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly: A method for extending and utilizing a web made out of existing flexure base material polyimide to dampen a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly is disclosed. The method provides a slider coupled with the head gimbal assembly, the slider having a read/write head element thereon. In addition,... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20060274451 - Suspension flexure polyimide material web for damping a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly: A suspension flexure polyimide material web for damping a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly is disclosed. A slider is coupled with the head gimbal assembly, the slider having a read/write head element thereon. In addition, a flexure nose portion is coupled with the head gimbal assembly. Furthermore,... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao LLP Third Floor

20060274454 - Stainless steel framework for changing the resonance frequency range of a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly: A stainless steel framework for changing the resonance frequency range of a flexure nose portion of a head gimbal assembly is disclosed. A slider is coupled with the head gimbal assembly, the slider having a read/write head element thereon. In addition, a flexure nose portion is coupled with the head... Agent: Wagner, Murabito & Hao, LLP

20060274455 - Load/unload mechanism for magnetic disk drive: Formation of wear powder caused by wear of a ramp which is attributable to mutual contact of a lift tab and the ramp is to be reduced in loading and unloading operations. In one embodiment, a spindle motor is turned on by application of power, then the temperature of a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20060274456 - Magneto-resistance effect element, magneto-resistance effect head, magneto-resistance transducer system, and magnetic storage system: A magneto-resistance effect head is provided with a lower conductive layer which is provided with a recessed portion, and a vertical bias layer is provided in the recessed portion. A free layer is provided on the lower conductive layer. On the free layer, layered in the following order are the... Agent: Whitham, Curtis & Christofferson & Cook, P.C.

20060274457 - Magnetoresistive head: A magnetoresistive head of a type including a magnetoresistive film arranged between a lower shield layer and an upper shield layer, wherein the lower shield layer has a non-magnetic layer adjacent to it and the lower shield layer and the upper shield layer are formed such that their separation at... Agent: Antonelli, Terry, Stout & Kraus, LLP