Patents Assigned to Seagate Technology
  • Patent number: 11437068
    Abstract: A recording head includes an external cavity laser with an externally mounted part having an active region. The external cavity laser also includes a channel waveguide that delivers light towards a media-facing surface. A near-field transducer functions as a reflector, either alone or in combination with a Bragg grating in the channel waveguide. A reflective back facet of the externally mounted part and the reflector define a resonator of the external cavity laser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Krishnamurthy, Scott Eugene Olson, Tyler Lenn Perry, John Charles Duda
  • Patent number: 11430529
    Abstract: A method for capacitance coupling parameter estimation includes determining a plurality of mean voltages among a plurality of memory cells of the memory in each of a plurality of cases related to inter-cell interference, generating a plurality of middle state mean voltages in response to the mean voltages, and adjusting one or more threshold voltages used to read from the memory based on the middle state mean voltages to operate independently of knowledge of middle state distributions in the memory cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Meysam Asadi, Zhengang Chen, Erich F. Haratsch
  • Patent number: 11430471
    Abstract: A disk drive is operable to determine degradation associated with writing to a disk surface by a head which has written existing data at a first areal density. A second areal density less than the first areal density is determined that remediates the degradation. The disk drive performs subsequent writes to the disk surface at the second areal density, and continues to read the existing data at the first areal density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology
    Inventors: Drew Allen Cheney, Edward Charles Gage, Praveen Viraraghavan
  • Patent number: 11429587
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for multiple duration deduplication entries. A processor may be configured to perform data deduplication operations, including setting a first indicator for first metadata stored to a hash database identifying a first time interval to maintain the first metadata in the database, and setting a second indicator for second metadata stored to the database identifying a second time interval to maintain the second metadata in the database longer than the first time interval. The processor may remove the first metadata from the database when no duplicative data is detected for the first metadata within the first time interval, and remove the second metadata from the database when no duplicative data is detected for the second metadata within the second time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael Barrell, Ian Davies, Kenneth F Day, III, Douglas Dewey
  • Patent number: 11429315
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for command status polling at a flash queue of a non-volatile memory device. The flash queue may be configured to perform polling on the status of flash operations without direct oversight from the data storage controller or firmware. In certain embodiments, a flash queue circuit may be configured to receive, from a data storage controller of a nonvolatile solid state memory (NVSSM) data storage device, one or more commands to access a flash memory of the NVSSM data storage device, each command of the one or more commands including one or more instructions. The flash queue circuit may execute the one or more commands to access the flash memory, evaluate a status response from the flash memory at the flash queue circuit, and re-execute a sequence of instructions of the one or more commands based on the status response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Pream, Jeremy Blair Goolsby
  • Patent number: 11430472
    Abstract: A data storage device includes a ferromagnetic center pole, a drive coil for an actuator arm assembly, and a magnetic assembly surrounding the drive coil. The drive coil surrounds the center pole and has a top, a bottom, and first and second sides; the first side is attached to the actuator arm assembly. The magnetic assembly includes a top magnet disposed above and spaced from the center pole, a bottom magnet disposed below and spaced from the center pole, and a side magnet disposed proximate the second side of the coil and spaced from the center pole. In another embodiment, a linear actuator comprises a ferromagnetic center pole, a drive coil supported for linear motion on a rail, and a magnetic assembly. A method including linearly moving a drive coil along a center pole by a magnetic field is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: YiChao Ma, Xiong Liu, Gordon Harwood, Yongjie Tang
  • Patent number: 11423928
    Abstract: A method includes forming a single-crystal-like metal layer on a metal seed layer, the metal seed layer formed on a sacrificial wafer. An anchor layer is formed on the single-crystal-like metal layer. The single-crystal-like metal layer is separated from the sacrificial wafer via the anchor layer. The single-crystal-like metal layer is transported via the anchor layer to a target substrate having one or more recording head subassemblies. The single-crystal-like metal layer is joined with the recording head, the single-crystal-like metal layer being integrated with the recording head as a near-field transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Michael Christopher Kautzky, Tong Zhao, Li Wan, Xiaolu Kou
  • Patent number: 11423927
    Abstract: A data storage system includes a data storage foil mounted within the data storage system, the data storage foil has at least one data storage surface. The data storage system also includes a head configured to interact with the at least one data storage surface to carry out at least one of data read or data write operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Riyan Alex Mendonsa, Edward Charles Gage, Kevin Gomez, Brett R. Herdendorf, Dan Mohr
  • Patent number: 11422237
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a detector and a light source configured to emit light. The apparatus further includes a disk with a set of prisms and that is configured to rotate, arranged to receive and direct the emitted light, and arranged to receive and direct backscattered light. The apparatus further includes a reflecting apparatus with multiple reflective facets and configured to rotate, arranged to reflect the emitted light, and arranged to reflect the backscattered light. A focusing apparatus is arranged to focus the backscattered light from the disk towards the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Dan Mohr, Zoran Jandric, Kevin A. Gomez, Raghu Ambekar Ramachandra Rao
  • Patent number: 11423929
    Abstract: A reader includes a bearing surface and a free layer having a front surface that forms a portion of the bearing surface. The reader also includes a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) structure below the free layer, the SAF structure has a narrow portion with a front surface that forms a portion of the bearing surface and a wide portion behind the narrow portion. The reader further includes an antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer in contact with the wide portion of the SAF structure. The SAF structure is configured to prevent switching from one magnetic state to another magnetic state in the wide portion under thermal fluctuations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Victor Sapozhnikov, Taras Grigorievich Pokhil, Andrzej Adam Stankiewicz, Mohammed Shariat Ullah Patwari
  • Patent number: 11410698
    Abstract: A disk drive has a recording head slidably coupled to a rail and in magnetic communication with a disk surface. The recording head has an optical power interface and an optical data interface. An optical transceiver is fixably mounted proximate an end of the rail and optically coupled to the optical power interface and/or the optical data interface of the recording head. The coupling between the optical transceiver and the interfaces facilitates writing data to the disk surface and/or reading data from the disk surface via the recording head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: Mark Anthony Gubbins
  • Patent number: 11404083
    Abstract: An apparatus has a substrate. A laser is deposited above the substrate. The laser comprises one or more non-self-supporting layers of crystalline material. A first layer is disposed proximate the laser. The first layer is deposited using a first process. A second layer is disposed proximate the second layer. The second layer is deposited using a second process different than the first process. The first layer and the second layer are configured to mitigate mechanical stress in the laser. A waveguide is deposited proximate the laser. The waveguide is configured to receive plasmons from the laser and direct the plasmons to a recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Adam Andrzej Lapicki, Vijayaharan Arumungakannunadar Venugopal, Helene Parwana Habibi, Debra Ann McNeill
  • Patent number: 11399447
    Abstract: A cooling assembly includes an air mover assembly including an inlet. The cooling assembly further includes an air management assembly that is coupled to the air mover assembly and that includes circular components arranged concentrically with respect to each other such that the circular components can move between an open position and a closed position. In the open position, the circular components have gaps between each other. In the closed position, the circular components reduce or eliminate the gaps between each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: Angel Castillo de la Cruz
  • Patent number: 11397038
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a chamber and two pumps coupled to opposing sides of the chamber. The chamber is configured to receive a medium and includes a first cryogenically cooled structure having a first surface and an opposing second surface and a second cryogenically cooled structure having a first surface and an opposing second surface. The first surface of the first cryogenically cooled structure faces the first surface of the second cryogenically cooled structure forming a gap. The gap is configured to receive the medium. The chamber also includes a gas inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Lewis Tanaka, Thomas Larson Greenberg
  • Patent number: 11397623
    Abstract: A data storage device includes load-sharing circuitry configured to utilize a threshold for distributing current from multiple sources and modify the threshold in response to a calculated power. The data storage device further includes power calculating circuitry configured to calculate power used from the multiple sources for use by the load-sharing circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Darrel R. Bimberg, Christopher L. Hill, Paul W. Burnett
  • Patent number: 11393494
    Abstract: A reader having a sensor stack and a top shield above the sensor stack. The top shield has an upper surface and a lower surface. The reader also includes at least one side shield below the top shield and adjacent to the sensor stack. The reader further includes a decoupling layer between the upper surface of the top shield and the at least one side shield. The decoupling layer is configured to decouple a first portion of the at least one side shield, proximate to the sensor stack, from at least a portion of the top shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Victor Sapozhnikov, Taras Grigorievich Pokhil, Mohammed Shariat Ullah Patwari
  • Patent number: 11391822
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a detector, a light source configured to emit light, a reflecting apparatus having multiple reflective facets, and a mirror. The reflecting apparatus is configured to rotate around an axis and arranged to reflect the emitted light from the light source and reflect backscattered light. The mirror is arranged to reflect the backscattered light from the reflecting apparatus towards the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Kevin A Gomez, Zoran Jandric, Krishnan Subramanian, Pierre Asselin, Dan Mohr, Raghu Ambekar Ramachandra Rao
  • Patent number: 11391787
    Abstract: A system includes a voltage source, a current source, and a testing station. The testing system is arranged to mechanically and electrically connect to multiple head gimbal assemblies (HGAs) simultaneously, and the testing station includes conductors for electrically coupling to conductive pads of the HGAs. The system further includes memory containing instructions for causing a computing device to connect either the voltage source or the current source to the conductors corresponding to each of the HGAs to be connected to the testing station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Teerapun Upun, Khoon Yung Wong, Rawinun Praserttaweelap, Lin Han Wong
  • Patent number: 11389924
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes methods of lapping that include energizing one or more elements that are located proximal to a first magnetoresistive element in a transducer region and generate heat and cause the first magnetoresistive element to selectively expand in the lapping direction relative to one or more other magnetoresistive elements. The present disclosure also includes methods of lapping that use one or more thermal sensors located proximal to the first magnetoresistive element to help control lapping in the lapping direction. The present disclosure includes related lapping systems and sliders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Edwin Rejda, Andrew Habermas, Jeff O'Konski, Andrew Sherve, Michael Thomas Johnson, Dongming Liu
  • Patent number: 11386921
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamically adjusting parameters used during a read operation to reduce stress on a read head. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a read head configured to read data stored to a data storage medium, and a control circuit that controls a parameter of the read head influencing the read head's ability to accurately read data. The control circuit may be configured to extend the working lifespan of the read head by monitoring a read performance of the read head, and adjusting the parameter to reduce the read performance when the read performance is greater than a first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventor: Peter S. Harllee