Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval inventions 04/07

20070091492 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091493 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091494 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091495 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091496 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information recording and reproducing apparatus: A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070091497 - Control of storage system using disk drive device having self-check function: Operation information related to at least one of an operating state of a disk drive device and an operating history of the disk drive device is obtained, and timing of the instruction to execute the testing process is determined based on a first operation information which is at least part... Agent: Mattingly, Stanger, Malur & Brundidge, P.C.

20070091498 - Information processing apparatus, data storage method, and data storage program: An information processing apparatus includes a hard disk drive that includes a hard disk, a writing unit that writes a data file to the hard disk, a reading unit that reads the data file written to the hard disk, a comparing unit that compares the data file written by the... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070091499 - Ultra high track density adaptive head core track pitch control: Apparatuses and methods for adjusting the track pitches of the tracks on a data storage tape. In one variation, the method comprises adjusting the observed pitch between the tracks by applying variable amounts of pressure on the surface of the tape. In another variation, the pressure is applied to a... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070091500 - Method and apparatus for improving the performance of a disk drive: An implementation of a disk drive with improved efficiency where a read head supported by a first positioning component is provided and a write head supported by a second positioning component is also provided. By positioning the write head behind the read head at a predetermined angle, the disk drive... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20070091501 - Power protection for vcm control loop in hard disk drive servo ic: A VCM power protection circuit that limits the maximum voltage that can occur across any of the VCM's output FETs, while at the same time providing some bias on a VCM output to direct a head toward a landing zone during power-up or any time there is a higher than... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070091502 - Cartridge holder apparatus: A disclosed cartridge holder apparatus includes: a cartridge supporting member having a lateral plate portion and side plate portions on both sides thereof; a cartridge upper surface supporting member disposed between the side plate portions on both sides of the cartridge supporting member; a support mechanism of a cartridge upper... Agent: Richard P. Berg, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070091503 - Cartridge slot door mechanism: A cartridge slot door mechanism is disclosed that covers a cartridge slot arranged at a front panel of a frame. The cartridge slot door mechanism includes an upper door having an upper side supported by the front panel, and a lower door having a lower side supported by the front... Agent: Richard P. Berg, Esq. C/o Ladas & Parry

20070091504 - Removable data cartridge: A removable data cartridge for storing information is disclosed. The removable data cartridge includes an outer casing and an electrical connector. The outer casing has a front side having an opening therein, a back side located opposite the front side, a left side, a left edge between the left side... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070091505 - Magnetic head having selectively defined reader gap thicknesses: A magnetic head includes a plurality of generally laterally positioned readers, each reader having a sensor, a lower shield below the sensor, an upper shield above the sensor, and a gap defined between the shields. At least one of the readers has a thicker gap than another of the readers.... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070091506 - Magnetic disk drive with air bearing surface design for data area expansion: Embodiment of the invention provides a magnetic disk drive that may suppress the decrease of a recording region by preventing a magnetic head slider from abutting a magnetic disk at the time of loading, and suppress the degradation of the flying characteristics. In one embodiment a magnetic disk drive of... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070091507 - Load/unload ramp: A disc drive utilizes ramp load unload technology. A ramp component of the disc drive includes a recess that reduces the contact surface area of the ramp component that supports an actuator assembly to unload a slider of the disc drive. The actuator assembly may include a lift tab that... Agent: Shumaker & Sieffert, P. A.

20070091508 - Magnetic actuator system and control method thereof: A control method of the magnetic actuator system includes the following steps. A first initial orientation step is to move a magnetic actuator to a first position in accordance with a first position signal, and generate a first position sense signal by a position sensor. A second initial orientation step... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070091509 - Magnetoresistive sensor: A magnetoresistive sensor includes first and second magnetic leads and a constricted junction joining the first and second magnetic leads. The first and second magnetic leads are formed of a magnetic and electrically conductive material. The constricted junction includes a junction core formed of magnetic and electrically conductive material. In... Agent: Seagate Technology LLC C/o Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070091510 - Thin-film device for detection of physical quantities, in particular a magnetic field, and corresponding method of detection: Described herein is a thin-film device for detecting physical quantities, in particular a magnetic field, of the type comprising an electrical circuit including one or more sensitive elements, which are designed to vary their own electrical resistance as a function of a physical quantity to be detected, said one or... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070091511 - Cpp-gmr magnetic head having gmr-screen layer: A spin-valve type magnetic head which has sufficiently high output is provided. In one embodiment, a structure in which high output coexists with high stability is achieved by letting a GMR-effect and a current-path-confinement effect manifest themselves at the same time in a GMR-screen layer consisting of a ferromagnetic metal... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070091513 - Stabilized spin valve head and method of manufacture: A magnetoresistive read head includes a spin valve having a multi-layer in-stack bias and side shields to substantially reduce the undesired flux from adjacent bits and tracks, as well as from the transverse field of the recording medium itself. At least one free layer is spaced apart from at least... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070091514 - Magnetoresistive (mr) elements having improved hard bias seed layers: MR devices and associated methods of fabrication are disclosed. An MR device includes an MR element and a bias structure on either side of the MR element for biasing a free layer of the MR element. The bias structure includes a first seed layer formed from Cr, a second seed... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070091515 - Read sensors having nitrogenated hard bias layers and method of making the same: A read sensor of a magnetic head includes a sensor stack structure formed in a central region; hard bias layers formed in side regions adjacent the central region; and lead layers formed over the hard bias layers in the side regions. The hard bias layers are made of a nitrogenated... Agent: John J. Oskorep, Esq. One Magnificent Mile Center

20070091512 - Low thermal coefficient of resistivity on-slider tunneling magneto-resistive shunt resistor: A slider includes a Tunneling Magneto-Resistive (TuMR) read sensor and a shunt resistor connected in parallel. The shunt resistor may be located in a read structure of the slider. The shunt resistor may reduce a total resistance of the read structure and any corresponding impedance mismatch between the read structure,... Agent: Foley & Lardner

20070086099 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086102 - Information playback system using information storage medium: According to one embodiment, there is provided a data processing method. The method includes reading management information indicative of a playback and display procedure, acquiring a content from a certain storage position at a timing determined based on the management information, and performing playback and display of the content at... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086100 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information recording and reproducing apparatus: A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086101 - Information recording medium, information reproducing apparatus, and information recording and reproducing apparatus: A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086103 - Magnetic sensor control device: A magnetic sensor control device has an input section, a selection section, a calculation section, and a setting section. The input section inputs a plurality of magnetic data each having 3 components sequentially output from a 3-dimensional (3D) magnetic sensor. The selection section selects 4 magnetic data satisfying a predetermined... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070086104 - Magnetic and/nor circuit: A magnetic AND/NOR circuit has a first, a second, a third, and a fourth magnetic transistor. These four magnetic transistors as ordinary transistors that can be turned on or turned off by the control of several metal devices respectively disposed around the magnetic transistors. The ‘AND’ and ‘NOR’ logic functions... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20070086105 - Quiet movie playback for entertainment pc: An entertainment system includes an optical media drive operable to playback contents of an optical media and a storage device (SD) to store data. The SD includes a head to read and write the data, a detector input to detect the playback of the optical media and a control output... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLP

20070086107 - Load/unload systems and methods for maximizing disk writeable area: A magnetic storage system according to one embodiment includes a magnetic disk having a load zone and a data area; at least one head for reading from and writing to the magnetic disk; and a slider for supporting the head. The load zone is created by: creating a load zone... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070086106 - Magnetic disk drive and method for writing/reading: Embodiments of the invention provide ways to write data in a load/unload area. In one embodiment, address numbers (ranging from 981 to 1065) whose order of addressing by host equipment is later than that of address numbers (ranging from 1 to 980) as logical block addresses (LBAs) assigned to data... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070086108 - Magnetic disk drive with head retraction control: Embodiments of the invention improve utility of a magnetic disk drive in which a head is retracted if the magnetic disk drive is in a dropping state. In one embodiment, an HDC/MPU provided in a magnetic disk drive judges whether the magnetic disk drive is in a dropping state based... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070086109 - Recording/reproducing method of magnetic tape: In a recording/reproducing method of a magnetic tape in a tracking servo system, a recording density of each data track is increased while inhibiting occurrence of a recording/reproducing error caused by a size change of a magnetic tape in the width direction. Data tracks are each set to have a... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070086110 - Tape deployment systems and methods of deploying tape in digital data transfer apparatus: A tape deployment system for a digital data transfer apparatus includes a tape guide movable from a non-deployed position to a plurality of deployed positions and a cam arrangement for determining the deployed position to which the tape guide moves.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070086111 - Recording medium cartridge and fabrication method thereof: A recording medium cartridge includes an upper case and lower case made of resin, joined via joining portions which are respectively formed thereat. Mutually communicating hole portions are formed at the joining portions. At least one of the hole portions penetrates to a case outer face. A molten resin material... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070086112 - Magnetic disk drive and magnetic head slider with stabilized flying: In a magnetic disk drive, translational and pitching vibrations in the flying height direction of a magnetic head slider are to be damped quickly while stabilizing the flying of the magnetic head slider. In one embodiment of the present invention, a magnetic disk drive is provided with a magnetic recording... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070086113 - Head suspension assembly and disk drive using the same: A head suspension assembly includes (a) a head, (b) a load beam carrying the head at one end, (c) a resilient member joining the load beam and a carriage, and (d) a pivot bearing provided between the load beam and the carriage and structured so that the load beam is... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070086114 - Method of forming a head suspension with an integral boss tower: A method of making a multi-piece head suspension for a rigid disk drive. The method includes providing a first layer including a mounting region with an integral boss tower attached to a stiffener by one or more positioning tabs; attaching a second layer including a spring region to an interface... Agent: Faegre & Benson LLP Patent Docketing

20070086115 - Suspension tongue design for varying the static pitch and roll torque on the slider of a disk drive: A head gimbal assembly includes a slider assembly and a flexure tongue that cantilevers in a first direction and supports the slider assembly. The slider assembly cantilevers away from the flexure tongue in a second direction different than the first direction. A load beam imparts a force on the flexure... Agent: The Law Office Of Steven G Roeder

20070086116 - Flexible cable positioning structure and magnetic disk drive: A positioning structure for a flexible cable having a movable portion is provided. In one embodiment, an FPC cable mounted to a base is received within a slit of a fixing plate. The FPC cable is disposed perpendicularly to a bottom surface of a base. On the fixing plate is... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070086117 - Actuator with improved voice coil motor and hard disk drive having the same: An actuator with an improved VCM and a hard disk drive having the actuator. The actuator can include an actuator pivot, a swing arm rotatably coupled to the actuator pivot, a coil support provided on a rear end of the swing arm; and a VCM providing a driving force for... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070086118 - Coil support structure and magnetic disk drive: Embodiments of the invention provide a support structure for a voice coil that is not easily damaged even when a carriage assembly used in a magnetic disk drive is made thinner. In one embodiment, the voice coil includes a stack of a plurality of layers of aligned windings held between... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070086119 - Tape drive apparatus with a head alignment system: A tape drive apparatus is provided with a base plate and tape path components on this base plate. The apparatus includes a bracket that is adjustably coupled to the base plate, the path components carrying a magnetic head for reading and writing to a tape transported by the path components.... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070086120 - Magneto-resistive element having a cap layer for canceling spin injection effect: A magneto-resistive element has: a first stacked film assembly having a pinned layer, a spacer layer, and a free layer; a first electrode layer which is arranged such that the first layer is in contact with the first electrode layer on the other side of the first layer, the first... Agent: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery

20070086121 - Magnetoresistive element: A magnetoresistive element which records information by supplying spin-polarized electrons to a magnetic material, includes a first pinned layer which is made of a magnetic material and has a first magnetization directed in a direction perpendicular to a film surface, a free layer which is made of a magnetic material... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070086122 - Cpp magnetoresistive sensor having a reduced, shield defined track width: A current perpendicular to plane (CPP) magnetoresistive sensor having a track width that is defined by an area of contact with a shield/lead. The sensor includes a sensor stack having a width W1. A current path defining insulation layer formed over the sensor stack has an opening with a width... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070081266 - Disk drive clock circuit that adjusts clock edge timing in response to servo information and methods thereof: A disk drive clock circuit includes a servo clock generator and a disk locked frequency converter. The servo clock generator generates a servo clock signal in response to servo information read from a data storage disk in a disk drive. The disk locked frequency converter responds to the servo clock... Agent: David K. Purks Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec, P.A.

20070081267 - Magnetic disk drive with increased storage capacity: Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk drive capable of reducing an area used for a preamble of each data sector to increase the storage capacity. The magnetic disk drive adopts a data-surface servo system. In one embodiment, main preambles are written on a magnetic disk at a frequency... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070081268 - Method of writing a reference servo signal of hard disk drive and apparatus suitable therefor: In a method of writing a reference servo signal of a hard disk drive having a spiral reference servo signal that is referred to when writing a final servo signal is written while a head is moved across a disk for a predetermined time at a target movement velocity, an... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070081269 - Hard disk drive having improved shock resistance: A hard disk drive having an improved shock resistance includes a spindle motor mounted on a frame member, at least one data storage disk positioned on and rotatable with the spindle motor, an actuator pivotally installed on the frame member and including a slider mounted on a side thereof to... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070081270 - Disk device: A disk device includes a driving unit and a restricting mechanism that are disposed in a housing. The driving unit moves between a withdrawal position and a driving position. The withdrawal position is separated from an outer peripheral edge of a disk that is positioned in the housing, and the... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070081271 - Recording tape cartridge: A recording tape cartridge comprising: a case in which a single reel having a hub around which a recording tape is wound is rotatably accommodated; and an opening formed in the case, from which a leader member attached to the end of the recording tape is pulled out, wherein at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070081272 - Head stack assembly protecting member and method for installing head stack assembly in hard disk drive using the same: A head stack assembly (HSA) protecting member to be installed in the HSA to protect the HSA, and a method of installing the HSA in a hard disk drive (HDD) by using the HSA protecting member are provided. The HSA protecting member includes a first spacer which is interposed between... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070081273 - Hard disk drive apparatus and method with ramp parking: A hard disk drive including an end tab extending from an end portion of a suspension that supports a read/write head, and a ramp including a plurality of end tab limiters and preventing the end tab from being separated, due to an external impact, from a parking zone where the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070081274 - Pinch roller driving mechanism for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus: A pinch roller driving mechanism for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus, includes a main deck mounting a shaft of a capstan motor, a sub-deck that is loaded and unloaded with respect to the main deck, a pivot lever that is pivotably mounted to the main deck and supports a pinch roller... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20070081275 - Actuator and hard disk drive having the same: An actuator and a hard disk drive (HDD) having the same. The actuator of the HDD includes a swing arm to rotate about a pivot and having a suspension with a read/write head mounted on a front end of the swing arm to record and reproduce data , a coil-supporting... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20070081276 - Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic head, magnetic reproducing apparatus, and magnetic memory: A magnetoresistance effect element comprises a magnetoresistance effect film and a pair of electrode. The magnetoresistance effect film having a first magnetic layer whose direction of magnetization is substantially pinned in one direction; a second magnetic layer whose direction of magnetization changes in response to an external magnetic field; a... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070081277 - Method and apparatus for reducing shield noise in magnetoresistive sensors: Methods and apparatus provide a magnetic head that includes a magnetoresistive read sensor disposed between a first magnetic shield and a second magnetic shield. The second magnetic shield is configured to reduce effects on the read sensor due to unevenness in a topography of the read sensor.... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20070081278 - Magnetic head having non-gmr shunt for perpendicular recording and method for making magnetic head having non-gmr shunt for perpendicular recording: A magnetic head having non-GMR shunt for perpendicular recording and method for making magnetic head having non-GMR shunt for perpendicular recording is disclosed. A shunt is provided for shunting charge from a read sensor. The shunt is formed co-planar with the read sensor and is fabricated using non-GMR materials.... Agent: David W. Lynch Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel

20070081279 - Double mill process for patterning current perpendicular to plane (cpp) magnetoresistive devices to minimize barrier shorting and barrier damage: A current perpendicular to plane (CPP) sensor and method of manufacturing such a sensor that prevents current shunting at the sides of the barrier/spacer layer due to redeposited material. A first ion mill is performed to remove at least the free layer. A quick glancing ion mill can be performed... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070076312 - Universal event/data recorder system: A universal event/data recorder system provides a common bridge between various event/data recorders found on mobile assets. The universal event/data recorder system includes an onboard segment that is capable of interfacing with any manufacturer's event/data recorder device. Additionally, the universal event/data recorder system also includes a remote segment for accessing,... Agent: Sachnoff & Weaver, Ltd.

20070076313 - Dynamic method for asymmetry compensation in a storage read channel: Provided is a dynamic method for asymmetry compensation in a storage read channel. An asymmetry cancellation component in communication with an analog-to-digital converter receives an analog signal representing data read from a storage medium by a read head. The asymmetry cancellation component receives a digital signal from the analog-to-digital converter... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20070076314 - Data pattern detection using adaptive search windows: Method and apparatus for detecting a reference pattern in a transmitted bit sequence. A duration of a search window used to detect the reference pattern is adaptively adjusted in relation to a previous detection of the pattern. This is preferably carried out by using a first search window to initially... Agent: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens

20070076315 - System and method of rewriting data tracks: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of rewriting defective tracks in a data storage device. In a particular embodiment, the method includes writing a servo pattern on a data storage surface having tracks, detecting a defective track, and rewriting information on the defective track. The method also... Agent: Toler Schaffer, LLP

20070076316 - Magnetic tape cartridge: A magnetic tape cartridge comprises: a magnetic tape on which data tracks and servo tracks are provided; a casing housing the magnetic tape therein: and a storing section which stores values of tape width detected during data recording onto the data tracks of the magnetic tape and from which the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070076319 - Recording method for magnetic recording medium, recording device for magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording medium: After a DC erasing is performed in a direction by permanent magnets on a servo signal recording part, servo signals are recorded in the signal recording area of the servo signal recording part by a magnetic field in the direction opposite to that of the DC erasing. Thus, in a... Agent: Robert J. Depke Lewis T. Steadman

20070076318 - Servowriter contact torque control: Servo writer apparatus and associated method for writing servo information to a data storage device. The servo writer has an external positioner configured for contactingly positioning the actuator in relation to the storage medium. The servo writer furthermore has a contact torque control with executable instructions stored in memory that... Agent: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens

20070076317 - Servowriter ramp detection: A detect control device is provided that monitors a position error signal signature associated with a transducer while being operably supported by an actuator at a substantially constant fly height adjacent a storage medium to characterize the extent to which the actuator contacts an unload ramp. A method is provided... Agent: Fellers, Snider, Blankenship, Bailey & Tippens

20070076320 - Hard disk drive and wireless data terminal using the same: A hard disk drive is provided with a platter, a spindle motor for driving the platter, an arm with a magnetic head attached to a distal end thereof, a voice coil motor for driving the arm, a first circuit substrate, and a drive casing for accommodating and electrically shielding the... Agent: Wolff Law Office, PLLC

20070076321 - Data storage system, data storage control device, and failure location diagnosis method thereof: A storage system has a control module for controlling a plurality of disk storage devices via a transmission path so as to discern the abnormalities of the plurality of disk devices and those of the transmission paths. When a control module for controlling the plurality of disk storage devices detects... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070076322 - Slider, head gimbal assembly and hard disc drive: A slider, a head gimbal assembly and a hard disc drive. The slider includes a write element, a read element, a ground wire supplying a ground voltage, a connection pad connected to the ground wire and a ground pad of a suspension interconnect, and a passive element. The passive element... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070076323 - Data storage device with load/unload type disk drive: Embodiments of the invention reduce the height of a ramp to provide a thin data storage device that is capable of inhibiting the deterioration of the dynamic characteristics at the time of loading/unloading. In one embodiment, a data storage device includes a head that accesses a recording region of a... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20070076324 - Low impedance flexible circuit for tape head: A dual layer flexible circuit for tape drives is provided that has a flexible substrate with first and second sides. A plurality of write trace pairs are provided on the substrate, with each write trace pair including a first write trace on the first side of the substrate and a... Agent: Law Office Of Mark J. Spolyar

20070076325 - Apparatus for indicating a state of a device: An arrangement for indicating a state of a device comprising a magnet and a coil configured such that one is moveable relative to the other such that, when the device is shaken, the coil generates electrical power and a controller configured to be powered by the coil, to determine the... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070076326 - Method for dealing with data recording media and device for carrying out said method, and method for disposing of electronic devices and device for carrying out said method: There is provided with a method for dealing with data recording media adapted to readily erase magnetic data recorded in magnetic recording media or destroy data recorded in optical recording media and a device for carrying out said method. Further, there is provided with a method for disposing of electronic... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070076327 - Head gimbal assembly with precise positioning actuator for read/write head and disk drive device with the head gimbal assembly: A micro-actuator for a head gimbal assembly includes a fixed portion connectable to a suspension of the head gimbal assembly and a movable portion connectable to a slider of the head gimbal assembly. A pair of frame ribs interconnect the fixed portion and the movable portion. A PZT element is... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070076328 - Magnetic recording head with esd shunt trace: Recording heads having an ESD shunt trace and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed. A recording head of the invention includes a first shield, a second shield, an MR read element between the first shield and the second shield, and an ESD shunt trace. The ESD shunt trace is... Agent: Duft Bornsen & Fishman, LLP

20070076329 - Magnetic encoder: A magnetic encoder having a magnetic sensor composed of SVGMR elements, in which a signal output with a half of a cycle of magnetic regions on a magnetic medium. The magnetic encoder comprises the magnetic medium, on which first magnetic regions and second magnetic regions are oppositely magnetized along the... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070076331 - Magnetoresistive sensor having an improved pinning structure: A magnetoresistive sensor having a hard magnetic layer extending from the stripe height of the pinned layer to assist in pinning the pinned layer. The pinned layer extends beyond the stripe height of the free layer so that the back stripe height edge of the pinned layer is significantly beyond... Agent: Zilka-kotab, PC

20070076332 - Magnetic sensor and current sensor: The present invention provides a current sensor of smaller and simpler configuration, capable of measuring a current to be detected with high precision and stability. A magnetic sensor includes: an element substrate including a magnetoresistive element, the magnetoresistive element having a pinned layer with a magnetization pinned to a direction,... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070076330 - Magnetic tunnel junction temperature sensors: An integrated circuit device is provided which includes a heat source disposed in a substrate, and a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (“MTJ”) temperature sensor disposed over the heat source.... Agent: Ingrassia, Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.