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Recording by magnetisation or demagnetisation of a record carrier; Reproducing by magnetic means; Record carriers therefor; Disposition or mounting of heads relative to record carriers with provision for moving the head for the purpose of maintaining alignment of the head relative to the record carrier during transducing operation, e.g. to compensate for surface irregularities of the latter or for track following maintaining desired contact or spacing by direct interaction of forces generated between heads or supports thereof and record carriers or supports thereof, e.g. attraction-repulsion interactions
Sub-classes:Magnetic disk device having heater to adjust spacing between magnetic disk and magnetic head
#2Tape drive with head-gimbal assembly and contact plate
#3Magnetic recording tape having embedded servo sectors on data tracks
#4Tape drive with head-gimbal assembly and contact plate
#5Tape head with element-to-element spacing and adjustment and mechanism to control the spacing
#6Slider and suspension arm interconnection for magnetic storage device
#7Tape head having sensors proximate to an edge
#8Tape head having sensors proximate to an edge
#9Data storage device with high signal-to-noise ratio contact detection
#10Tape head having sensors proximate to a region between tented tape regions
#11Magnetic head, hard disk device, and method for transferring two-dimensional atomic crystal layer to head slider of magnetic head
#12Tape media kiss-contact read verification
#13Tape media kiss-contact read verification
#14Tape media kiss-contact read verification
#15Head-medium contact detection using introduced heat oscillation
#16Tape head system with controllable electrostatic elements
#17Magnetic storage device having a buffer track and storage tracks, and method of operating the same
#18Fly-Height Management Via Harmonic Sensing
#19Disk drive and method of measuring frictional characteristics
#20Disc drive device
#21Method of correcting head suspension, method of manufacturing head suspension, head suspension, and method of processing thin plate
#22Apparatus and method for slider-disk contact indication by monitoring the spindle control signal in a hard disk drive
#23Magnetic disk drive and control method thereof
#24Sinking heat from an integrated circuit to an actuator
#25Disk drive device and clearance control method thereof
#26Magnetic disk apparatus and magnetic disk apparatus control method
#27Control of transducer to tape spacing
#28Non-contact measurement of slider fly height by electrostatic force
#29Disk Drive Fly Height Monitoring Arrangement and Method
#30Non-contact measurement of slider fly height by electrostatic force
#31Head slider having protruding head element and apparatus for determining protrusion amount of head element
#32Head gimbal assembly loading with fixed mounting surface
#33Recording medium drive including electrostatic actuator between head slider and recording medium
#34Short-pulsed laser treatment for angularity adjust with minimized heat loading of a hard disk drive component
#35Magnetic disk apparatus and method of controlling the same
#36Recording heads including a magnetically damped write pole and recording systems including such heads
#37Actuator with fluid-redirecting and drag-reducing surface features
#38Hard-disk drive design for contact recording applications
#39Method and apparatus for rejecting contact-induced disturbances
#40Magnetic head heating element in a disk drive
#41Thin-film magnetic head with heater in overcoat multilayer, head gimbal assembly with thin-film magnetic head, and magnetic disk drive apparatus with head gimbal assembly
#42Magnetic recording medium including a magnetic layer with first magnetic particles and a protective layer with second magnetic particles
#43Linear-type tape storage magnetic head device
#44Method and apparatus for write control in a disk drive
#45Magnetic disk apparatus and method of controlling the same
#46Method for adjusting flying height of magnetic heads using an electrical charge through an electrical pad on the slider
#47Device for suppressing magnetic noise of dual-layered disk in a disk drive
#48Measuring servo reader span on a magnetic recording head
#49Data storage device using high and low frequencies AC heat produce position-error-signals for head contact detection
#50Tape head having sensors proximate to an edge
#51Adjusting track spacing for heat assisted recording medium according to reader to-reader separation
#52System and methods utilizing dual read sensors