G11B 5/6035
Using electrostatic forces
Official title: {using electrostatic forces}
G11B5/6035 (Using electrostatic forces) appears on 22 US grants and 15 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 22
- Published applications
- 15
- Assignees
- 10
- Inventors
- 62
- Latest grant
- 2 Feb 2021
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Recent patents
- Heat-assisted magnetic recording device capable of providing negative electrical potential at NFT2 Feb 2021US 10,910,007 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Transducing head with a surface charged reader16 Jul 2019US 10,354,684 B1Seagate Technologies LLC
- Head-medium contact detection using an oscillating electromagnetic force1 Aug 2017US 9,721,603 B2Seagate Technology LLC
- Head-medium contact detection using a thermal sensor and surface charge control of a slider28 Mar 2017US 9,607,642 B1Seagate Technology LLC
- Hard disk drive head-disk interface dithering14 Mar 2017US 9,595,280 B2Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Interface voltage control for slider in data storage device25 Dec 2025US 2025/0391435 A1Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
- Head-medium contact detection using an oscillating electromagnetic force30 Mar 2017US 2017/0092313 A1Seagate Technology LLC
- Hard Disk Drive Head-Disk Interface Dithering1 Sep 2016US 2016/0254016 A1HGST Netherlands B. V.
- Slider with high frequency voltage ground and low frequency dc voltage isolation28 Jan 2016US 2016/0027459 A1HGST Netherlands B. V.
- Disk drive and method for controlling clearance in the disk drive27 May 2010US 2010/0128383 A1Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Contact detection and calibration for electrostatic fly height control in a disc drive79US 6,700,724 B2Seagate Technology LLC · 2004
- Head with active fly height control56US 6,577,466 B2Seagate Technology LLC · 2003
- Electrostatic fly-height control44US 7,450,333 B2Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B. V. · 2008
- Glide test head with active fly height control41US 6,366,416 B1Seagate Technology LLC · 2002
- System and method for electrostatic fly height control41US 7,068,457 B2Seagate Technology LLC · 2006