INCREASED VCM CURRENT RESOLUTION DURING TRACK FOLLOW TO DECREASE NRRO

METHOD OF OPERATING A VOICE COIL MOTOR AND CORRESPONDING CONTROL CIRCUIT

Data storage device having dual actuators and method for data egress throttling during emergency power off retract (EPOR)

Motor driver circuit, positioning device and hard disk apparatus using same, and motor driving method

Magnetically repositionable cassettes within a data storage drive

Voice coil motor yoke with annular groove in magnet bonding region and voice coil motor including same

DISK DEVICE

Spindle motor and hard disk drive device

Axial flux permanent magnet motor for ball screw cam elevator mechanism for reduced-head hard disk drive

Multi-cartridge control board with cartridge-external voice coil motor actuator components

In-pivot stepper motor for ball screw cam elevator mechanism for cold storage data storage device

Low-profile ball screw cam elevator mechanism for cold storage data storage device

Apparatus, systems and processes for reducing a hard disk drive's access time and concomitant power optimization

Tolerance ring and hard disk device

Apparatus, systems and processes for reducing a hard disk drive's access time and concomitant power optimization

Representation of overlapping visual entities

Bearing device

Representation of overlapping visual entities

Low translational load suspension assembly

Bearing device

Tolerance ring

Tolerance ring, hard disk device, and method for manufacturing hard disk device

Tolerance ring

Tolerance ring with discrete tolerance ring panels

Tolerance ring and method of manufacturing tolerance ring

Memory disk drive device and resin component therefor

ACTUATOR ARM WITH A SHELF AND CUTOUT

Tolerance ring with grouped waves

Tolerance ring with slotted sidewall

Tolerance ring with perforated waves

Pivot bearing unit for hard disk actuator

Low translational load suspension assembly

Bearing apparatus having concentric inner and outer roller bearings and information recording/reproducing apparatus

Voice coil motor with magnet having protrusion

METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MAKING AND USING CAGES FOR BEARING ASSEMBLIES

Low profile damper plates for a yoke of a voice coil motor

VOICE COIL MOTORS AND MAGNETIC CIRCUITS THEREFOR

Tolerance ring with edge bump difference

Arm coil assembly, arm flexible cable assembly and disk drive unit with the same

HEAD GIMBAL ASSEMBLIES WITH WINDAGE DIVERSION FEATURES

Representation of overlapping visual entities

Noncontact positioning of a workpiece

Two-step recess base

Head stack assembly and disk drive unit with the same

LOW HYSTERESIS BEARING

Disk drive having reduced magnetic flux leakage

LOW HYSTERESIS BEARING

Disk drive with adhesively bonded pivot-bearing assembly

Hard disk drive having an actuator whose length is less than the distance between its axis of rotation and the axis of rotation of a disk of the drive

MAGENTIC CIRCUIT FOR VCM AND STORAGE DEVICE

ASSEMBLY AND RECORDING MEDIUM DRIVE

Process control of tolerance rings

Locating feature for mounting a component to a base

CARRIAGE ASSEMBLY AND STORAGE MEDIUM DRIVING DEVICE

LOW POWER VOICE COIL MOTOR WITH A GUIDING MAGNET SHELL

Recording medium driving device

MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR POSITIONING HEAD

Disk drive and magnetic circuit fixing method for the same

Hard disk drive with recessed actuator joint

Actuator latch system of hard disk drive

Magnetic disk drive and voice coil motor

Hard disk drive

MULTIPLE ACCESS HARD DISK

HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY AND DISK DRIVE APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE SAME

STORAGE DEVICE AND ASSEMBLY METHOD FOR THE SAME

Resonance response testing on a bearing

Disk device employing a CSS system head supporting unit

Head positioning assembly

HEAD SUPPORT DEVICE AND DISK DEVICE WITH THE SAME

Actuator mechanism for magnetic disk drive

HARD DISK DRIVE MOUNTING METHOD, MAGNETIC BLOCK AND CLAMP DEDICATED FOR THE METHOD

Voice coil damper

Actuator latch system of hard disk drive including latch lever having first and second hooks disposed one above the other at a leading end thereof

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ASSEMBLING CARRIAGE ASSEMBLY

Voice coil motor and disk drive unit with the same

Ultrasonic actuator and magnetic recording apparatus using the same

Multiple positioner data storage device

Friction drive actuator and hard disk device using such actuator

MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE

Composite single structured hard disk drive

Voice coil motors and magnetic circuits therefor

Single stopper pin for controlling magnetic head placement in disk drive devices, and methods of making the same

Head support for a magnetic disk device

Head stack assembly including a swing arm having a bobbin and a printed circuit board with conductive traces attached to the bobbin, and hard disk drive comprising the same

Method for reducing off-track gain for a disk drive actuator

Storage medium drive

Multi-Platter Flexible Media Disk Drive Arrangement

Self-fixturing pivoting actuator

Rotational disc type storage device

Head stack assembly with suspension supporting head slider and hard disc drive including the same

Magnetic head actuator with centered deviation

Symmetric voice coil motor design, assembly methods of constructing same, and hard disk micro drive storage systems including same

Stainless steel balancer having recess formed at a side surface, and head stack assembly with the same

Low-profile rotary motor with fixed back iron

Head support device and disk device having the same

Method of assembling a carriage assembly

Actuator with improved voice coil motor and hard disk drive having the same

Actuator and hard disk drive having the same

Servowriter contact torque control

Method for detecting external acceleration to a hard disk drive by a spindle motor

Head actuator and information storage apparatus

Actuator of hard disk drive having arm member with raised blade part

Ultra-small optical/magnetic head actuator with pivot hinge and Halbach magnet array

Bearing mechanism, carriage assembly, and magnetic disk drive

Hard disc device

System and apparatus for reducing off-track gain for a disk drive actuator

Method of stiffening an actuator comb and coil assembly

Windage stripper for an actuator and rotating disc

Apparatus for a disk drive actuator pivot set height tooling with an active servo compensation

Anti-gall bearing with captive screw

Head stack assembly and manufacturing thereof

Recording disk drive

Disk device

Stacked actuator arm assembly with printed circuit card mount

Magnetic head actuator with equalized deviation

Recording medium drive with magnetic body embedded in housing base opposite voice coil motor to suppress leakage flux

Head support mechanism, head arm assembly, and disk drive apparatus with head arm assembly with weight formed around horizontal bearing

Rotating disk storage device

Data storage device employing staggered servo wedges to increase capacity

Multi-controller data storage devices and methods

Magnetic disk device having coupling observers for reducing coupling issues between independently running multi-actuators

BVCM hold down apparatus to prevent pivot bearing damage at TVCM installation in disk drive assembly