G11B 5/5586
Minimising seek noise
Official title: {Minimising seek noise, e.g. actuator noise}
G11B5/5586 (Minimising seek noise) appears on 30 US grants and 17 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 30
- Published applications
- 17
- Assignees
- 16
- Inventors
- 59
- Latest grant
- 11 Aug 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Increased VCM current resolution during track follow to decrease NRRO11 Aug 2026US 12,706,116 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data storage device with rapid in-field repeatable runout noise removal calibration1 Apr 2025US 12,266,386 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Hard disk drive (HDD) with acoustic noise detection4 Mar 2025US 12,243,559 B1Marvell Asia Pte Ltd
- Sector metrics to estimate health of written data25 Jun 2024US 12,020,733 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Adaptive data detection on a nonlinear channel2 Jan 2024US 11,862,194 B1International Business Machines Corporation
- Increased vcm current resolution during track follow to decrease nrro17 Apr 2025US 2025/0124950 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Data storage device with rapid in-field repeatable runout noise removal calibration29 Aug 2024US 2024/0290348 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Sector metrics to estimate health of written data19 Oct 2023US 2023/0335158 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to reduce effects of cross-actuator coupling14 Apr 2022US 2022/0115038 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Split-actuator disk drive that uses microactuator feedforward to reduce effects of cross-actuator coupling25 Nov 2021US 2021/0366511 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Most cited
By later US patents
- Disk drive executing log structured writes to physical zones based on power mode131US 8,576,511 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2013
- Reducing acoustic noise in a disk drive when exiting idle mode78US 8,760,796 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2014
- Information storage device with an odd number of track sequences in a zone31US 5,760,993 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Flexure to be secured to a load beam of a disk drive suspension22US 8,503,133 B2NHK Spring Co., Ltd. · 2013
- Disk drive zoned sequential data format and head switch sequence14US 6,034,837 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 2000