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2010-024 - Embedded electrothermal microactuator head actuator for tracking control
2010-024 - Embedded electrothermal microactuator head actuator for tracking control Other Information The servo system of a disk drive has two primary operations, namely track seek and track follow. Track seek is the operation of moving the head (containing the read transducer and the write transducer) from one data track to another. After the completion...
Published: 4/24/2026   |   Updated: 2/6/2026   |   Inventor(s): William Messner, James Bain
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2010-089 - Coupled Plasmonic Waveguide Transducer for Near Field Optical Source
2010-089 - Coupled Plasmonic Waveguide Transducer for Near Field Optical Source Other Information The envisioned purpose of this invention is to help direct optical energy into a spot that is much smaller than the free space wavelength of light at optical frequencies. This highly focused optical energy is to be used to heat the magnetic surface...
Published: 4/24/2026   |   Updated: 2/6/2026   |   Inventor(s): T. Schlesinger, James Bain, Eric Black, Stephen Powell
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2007-121 - Electrothermal Actuator for Head Skew Compensation in Disk Drives (DSSC)
2007-121 - Electrothermal Actuator for Head Skew Compensation in Disk Drives (DSSC) Abstract This invention is a rotary micro actuator suitable for both skew compensation and high bandwidth control in a hard disk drive head.
Published: 4/24/2026   |   Updated: 2/6/2026   |   Inventor(s): William Messner, James Bain, Gary Fedder
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