Patents Represented by Attorney Pillsbury Wintrhop, LLP
  • Patent number: 6930843
    Abstract: There is disclosed a disk drive provided with a function of suspending a read/write operation in the case where the magnetic field of the magnetic disturbance out of the predetermined range is generated. The disk drive has a head writing data to the disk, a sensor detecting a magnetic field with respect to the disk drive, and an actuator unloading the head from the surface of the disk to a retracting position outside of the disk when the detected magnetic field is out of a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yuka Aoyagi, Akihiko Takeo, Tomoko Taguchi
  • Patent number: D488321
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2004
    Assignee: Ideastream Consumer Products LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Perella, Anthony Decarlo, Vincent Thomson