Abstract: An apparatus such as a device having a writer for magnetic media has a trailing pole piece having a portion adjacent a write gap, the portion having a throat height (h1) of between about 100 and about 800 nm, and an aspect ratio of thickness/throat height (t1/h1) in a range of 0.5 and 2.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a disk device includes rotatable magnetic disks, a first actuator assembly rotatably supported on a pivot through a first bearing unit, a second actuator assembly rotatably supported on the pivot through a second bearing unit and provided side by side with the first actuator assembly in an axial direction of the pivot, and a filter unit provided between the magnetic disks and the first and second actuator assemblies. The filter unit includes a holder including a shielding portion facing a boundary portion between the first actuator assembly and the second actuator assembly and a ventilation opening provided at a position spaced apart from the boundary portion in the axial direction, and a filter held by the holder and facing the ventilation opening.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes irreversible adsorbing materials in a sealed housing for the magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus.

Abstract: A method, according to one embodiment, includes cycling a shorter length of a tape, that is less than an entire length of the tape, a plurality of times to acclimate the shorter length of the tape. An acclimation change amount of the shorter length of the tape is determined. The acclimation change amount is based on a baseline servo band difference (SBD) measured before the cycling and a post cycling SBD measured after the cycling. The method further includes adjusting SBD values from a beginning of the tape (BOT) to an end of the tape (EOT) based on the determined acclimation change amount. A system according to another embodiment includes a processor, and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to perform operations of the foregoing method.

Abstract: A disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a flexible printed circuit board, an electronic component, and a wall. The flexible printed circuit board is electrically connected to the magnetic head. The electronic component is mounted on the flexible printed circuit board. The wall has rigidity higher than the flexible printed circuit board and is attached to the flexible printed circuit board. The flexible printed circuit board with a first through hole includes a first surface facing the electronic component with a gap, and a second surface opposite the first surface and facing the wall, the first through hole being open to the first surface and the second surface to communicate with the gap. The wall is provided with a second through hole penetrating the wall to communicate with the first through hole.

Abstract: A method of improving a sound reproduction of a turntable, the includes rotatably coupling a stylus cartridge to a head shell of a tonearm; and mechanically communicating the stylus cartridge and a spindle of the turntable, whereby rotation of the stylus cartridge is guided by said mechanical communication so that the stylus cartridge remains tangent to a groove of a grooved disc rotating with the spindle.

Abstract: A hard disk drive flexible printed circuit (FPC) includes a plurality of fingers extending from a main portion, with each finger having a first wiring layer including a first electrically conductive trace layout, a second wiring layer including a second electrically conductive trace layout, and a base film interposed between the first and second wiring layers, where the first conductive trace layout includes at least one thermally conductive protective island overlaying a respective portion of the second trace layout to provide a protective thermal barrier to the base film. Hence, maximum temperatures across various layers of the FPC laminate can be reduced, damage to the FPC prevented, and manufacturing yields improved.

Abstract: A data storage device comprising a recording head having a high damping magnetic alloy layer including at least one magnetic alloy element, and a 5d transition element; the high damping magnetic alloy layer having a mixed face-centered cubic (fcc) and body-centered cubic (bcc) crystal structure, and the mixed fcc and bcc crystal structure comprising fcc and bcc grains, with the bcc grains having an elongated shape relative to the fcc grains, a larger size than the fcc grains, and slip deformation, thereby providing the high damping magnetic alloy layer with a damping constant of up to about 0.07.

Abstract: Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator mechanism configured to position one or more heads proximate to one or more disk surfaces of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices, comprising an actuator mechanism control system configured for controlling the actuator mechanism. The one or more processing devices are configured to: output a multi-rate excitation to at least one multi-rate notch filter of the actuator mechanism control system; detect a frequency response of the actuator mechanism in response to the multi-rate excitation; and calibrate the at least one multi-rate notch filter of the actuator mechanism control system, based at least in part on the detected frequency response of the actuator mechanism.

Abstract: A data storage disk cartridge library system includes a rack having an array of bays, at least some housing disk media cartridges and/or media drives, and a pair of horizontal and vertical guide rails bordering each bay. A media transport robot includes fixed-position drive wheels at each corner for driving the robot along the guide rails, and pivoting guide wheels corresponding to each drive wheel for guiding the drive wheel horizontally along a horizontal guide rail and vertically along a vertical guide rail. With each guide wheel coupled with a horizontal guide rail the robot can travel horizontally on the rack, and with each guide wheel coupled with a vertical guide rail the robot can travel vertically on the rack. Electrical power can be supplied to the robot via the guide rails, and gear portions of the wheels mechanically interface with a mechanical portion of the guide rails.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an electronic device that includes a pedestal that extends from a mounting surface of a base of the electronic device. The electronic device also includes a thermal interface material that is interposed between an interface surface of the pedestal and a data processing component, is in direct contact with the data processing component, and is in direct contact with a first portion and a second portion of the interface surface. The first portion of the interface surface of the pedestal has a first height, relative to the mounting surface of the base, and the second portion of the interface surface of the pedestal has a second height, relative to the mounting surface of the base and different than the first height.

Abstract: A head driving device includes a head supporting portion supporting a head member, a first beam, a second beam, a first piezoelectric unit including a pair of piezoelectric elements, and a second piezoelectric unit including a pair of piezoelectric elements. When voltage is applied to the piezoelectric elements of the first piezoelectric unit, the piezoelectric elements deform, and a distal end of the first beam moves. The piezoelectric elements of the second piezoelectric unit also deform by application of voltage, and moves a distal end of the second beam in a same direction as the distal end of the first beam.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to a magnetic recording device comprising a magnetic recording head having a first current flow in a cross-track direction through a trailing shield. In one or more embodiments, a second current flows in a cross-track direction around the main pole. The magnetic recording device comprises a main pole disposed between a trailing shield, a leading shield, and side shields. A trailing gap is disposed between the side shields and the trailing shield. A high moment seed layer is disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield. A first insulation layer is disposed within the trailing shield and directs the first current through the trailing shield, guided to the proximity of the main pole. A second insulation layer, disposed below the trailing shield, directs the second current through the trailing shield, or alternatively through the side shields and around the main pole.

Abstract: A plurality of gap patterns are formed on a front surface of a substrate along a direction corresponding to a width direction of a magnetic tape. The first straight line region has a steeper inclined angle with respect to the first imaginary straight line than the second straight line region. Positions of both ends of the first straight line region and positions of both ends of the second straight line region are aligned in a direction corresponding to a width direction of a magnetic tape. Positions of the plurality of gap patterns are aligned in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape. A pulse signal is supplied to each of the plurality of gap patterns with a delay of a predetermined time from one side to the other side in a direction in which the plurality of gap patterns are arranged.

Abstract: The present disclosure is generally related to a magnetic recording device comprising a magnetic recording head having a first current flow in a cross-track direction through a trailing shield. In one or more embodiments, a second current flows in a cross-track direction around the main pole. The magnetic recording device comprises a main pole disposed between a trailing shield, a leading shield, and side shields. A trailing gap is disposed between the side shields and the trailing shield. A high moment seed layer is disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield. A first insulation layer is disposed within the trailing shield and directs the first current through the trailing shield, guided to the proximity of the main pole. A second insulation layer, disposed below the trailing shield, directs the second current through the trailing shield, or alternatively through the side shields and around the main pole.

Abstract: Structures including a magnetic-tunnel-junction layer stack and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a magnetic-tunneling-junction layer stack including a reference layer, an antiferromagnetic layer, a free layer positioned between the reference layer and the antiferromagnetic layer, and a tunnel barrier layer positioned between the reference layer and the free layer. The antiferromagnetic layer has a static magnetic field with a magnetization, and the antiferromagnetic layer is antiferromagnetically coupled to the free layer.

Abstract: A data storage device (DSD) includes a base-deck, a disc above the base-deck, and a shaft extending perpendicular from the base-deck. The DSD also includes a head stack assembly (HSA) including a head gimbal assembly having a load beam and a head at a first end of the HSA. The head interacts with a surface of the disc. The HSA also includes a second end movably mounted on the shaft. The DSD additionally includes an elevator that linearly moves the HSA along the shaft to adjust a distance between the load beam and the surface of the disc in response to receiving a feedback signal associated with the interaction of the head with the surface of the disc. The feedback signal is one of a plurality of feedback signals employed by the elevator to adjust the distance between the load beam and the surface of the disc.

Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) writer is disclosed. A write current passes through a driving coil and a bucking coil generates a magnetic flux that passes through the main pole tip and is used to write one or more magnetic bits in a magnetic medium. The improved PMR writer includes a double driving coil (DDC) design, in which a second electric current path in parallel with the driving coil through the main pole tip is added to drive the main pole in the same direction as the top driving coil.

Abstract: The present disclosure generally relate to spin-orbit torque (SOT) devices. The SOT devices each comprise a non-magnetic layer, a free layer disposed in contact with the non-magnetic layer, and a bismuth antimony (BiSb) layer disposed over the free layer. The non-magnetic layer has a thickness of about 0.5 nm to about 2 nm. The BiSb layer has a thickness of about 5 nm to about 10 nm. The BiSb layer and the free layer have collective thickness between about 5 nm to about 20 nm. By reducing the thickness of the non-magnetic layer and BiSb layer, a read gap of each SOT device is reduced while enabling large inverse spin Hall angles and high signal-to-noise ratios.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a head suspension assembly comprises a structure which prevents a lubricant to be used for a caulking portion of an actuator arm from spreading.