ROBERT J. McNab

METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A DISK DRIVE MICROACTUATOR THAT INCLUDES A PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENT AND A PERIPHERAL ENCAPSULATION LAYER

Apparatus for manufacturing piezoelectric actuators

Method for manufacturing a disk drive microactuator that includes a piezoelectric element and a peripheral encapsulation layer

Magnetic disk drive and method for efficiently determining and storing RRO compensation values using a secondary micro-actuator

Servo writing a disk drive using a secondary actuator to control skew angle

Disk drive with airflow channeling enclosure

Method for writing repeatable runout correction values to a magnetic disk of a disk drive

Servo writing a disk drive using correction values that attenuate phase error propagation

Suspension assembly with piezoelectric microactuators electrically connected to a folded flex circuit segment

Method of operating a disk drive including rotating a perpendicular write head to reduce a difference between skew and taper angles, and a disk drive

Disk drive having servo sectors that store repeatable runout correction values and related error correction code data

Disk drive attenuating excitation of arm vibration mode by simultaneously driving secondary actuator for non-active head

Disk drive having internal data structures for efficiently storing repeatable runout cancellation information

Method for preventing radial error propagation during self-servowriting of tracks in a magnetic disk drive

Determining repeatable runout cancellation information using PES information generated during self servo-writing operations

Reducing estimation period for repeatable runout errors in a disk drive

Method and disk drive for improving head position accuracy during track following through real-time identification of external vibration and monitoring of write-unsafe occurrences