Patents by Inventor Barry Stipe
Barry Stipe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11398246Abstract: The present disclosure relates to pretreating a magnetic recording head for magnetic media drive. For a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head, a light source provides the necessary heat for the drive to operation. A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is mounted to a top surface of a slider. A plurality of laser beams are emitted from the bottom surface of the VCSEL and directed to a corresponding number of waveguide structures within the HAMR head. The waveguide structures feed into a multimode interference (MMI) device that then directs the laser into a single waveguide for focusing on a near field transducer (NFT). The VCSEL lasers are phase coherent and have no mode hopping.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Barry Stipe, Takuya Matsumoto, Sergei Sochava
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Patent number: 11302352Abstract: The present disclosure relates to pretreating a magnetic recording head for magnetic media drive. For a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head, a light source provides the necessary heat for the drive to operation. A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is mounted to a top surface of a slider. A plurality of laser beams are emitted from the bottom surface of the VCSEL and directed to a corresponding number of waveguide structures within the HAMR head. The waveguide structures feed into a multimode interference (MMI) device that then directs the laser into a single waveguide for focusing on a near field transducer (NFT). The VCSEL lasers are phase coherent and have no mode hopping.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Barry Stipe, Takuya Matsumoto, Sergei Sochava
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Publication number: 20210398557Abstract: The present disclosure relates to pretreating a magnetic recording head for magnetic media drive. For a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head, a light source provides the necessary heat for the drive to operation. A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is mounted to a top surface of a slider. A plurality of laser beams are emitted from the bottom surface of the VCSEL and directed to a corresponding number of waveguide structures within the HAMR head. The waveguide structures feed into a multimode interference (MMI) device that then directs the laser into a single waveguide for focusing on a near field transducer (NFT). The VCSEL lasers are phase coherent and have no mode hopping.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Barry STIPE, Takuya MATSUMOTO, Sergei SOCHAVA
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Publication number: 20210398556Abstract: The present disclosure relates to pretreating a magnetic recording head for magnetic media drive. For a heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head, a light source provides the necessary heat for the drive to operation. A vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) is mounted to a top surface of a slider. A plurality of laser beams are emitted from the bottom surface of the VCSEL and directed to a corresponding number of waveguide structures within the HAMR head. The waveguide structures feed into a multimode interference (MMI) device that then directs the laser into a single waveguide for focusing on a near field transducer (NFT). The VCSEL lasers are phase coherent and have no mode hopping.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Barry STIPE, Takuya MATSUMOTO, Sergei SOCHAVA
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Patent number: 11043233Abstract: Disclosed herein are magnetic write heads and methods of designing them, and data storage devices comprising such write heads. A magnetic write head having leading and trailing sides comprises an air-bearing surface (ABS), a main pole between the leading and trailing sides, a first return pole between the main pole and the leading side, at least one optical near-field generator between the first return pole and the main pole, and a second return pole between the main pole and the trailing side. The main pole comprises a first tapered portion comprising a leading-side edge perpendicular to the ABS, a first trailing-side edge at a first angle to the ABS, and a second trailing-side edge recessed from the ABS and at a second angle to the ABS. The second return pole comprises a second tapered portion adjacent to the ABS and extending toward the main pole.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Muhammad Asif Bashir, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden, Alexander Goncharov, Barry Stipe
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Publication number: 20200294536Abstract: Disclosed herein are magnetic write heads and methods of designing them, and data storage devices comprising such write heads. A magnetic write head having leading and trailing sides comprises an air-bearing surface (ABS), a main pole between the leading and trailing sides, a first return pole between the main pole and the leading side, at least one optical near-field generator between the first return pole and the main pole, and a second return pole between the main pole and the trailing side. The main pole comprises a first tapered portion comprising a leading-side edge perpendicular to the ABS, a first trailing-side edge at a first angle to the ABS, and a second trailing-side edge recessed from the ABS and at a second angle to the ABS. The second return pole comprises a second tapered portion adjacent to the ABS and extending toward the main pole.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Muhammad Asif BASHIR, Petrus Antonius VAN DER HEIJDEN, Alexander GONCHAROV, Barry STIPE
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Patent number: 10714128Abstract: Disclosed herein are magnetic write heads and data storage devices comprising such write heads. A magnetic write head comprises a leading side, a trailing side, an air-bearing surface (ABS), a main pole disposed between the leading side and the trailing side and extending to the ABS, a first return pole disposed between the main pole and the leading side, and a second return pole disposed between the main pole and the trailing side. One or both of the main pole and the second return pole may be tapered.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Muhammad Asif Bashir, Petrus Antonius Van Der Heijden, Alexander Goncharov, Barry Stipe
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Publication number: 20200118586Abstract: Disclosed herein are magnetic write heads and data storage devices comprising such write heads. A magnetic write head comprises a leading side, a trailing side, an air-bearing surface (ABS), a main pole disposed between the leading side and the trailing side and extending to the ABS, a first return pole disposed between the main pole and the leading side, and a second return pole disposed between the main pole and the trailing side. One or both of the main pole and the second return pole may be tapered.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Muhammad Asif BASHIR, Petrus Antonius VAN DER HEIJDEN, Alexander GONCHAROV, Barry STIPE
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Patent number: 10468071Abstract: Disclosed herein is a magnetic storage device that comprises a housing defining an interior cavity. The magnetic storage device also comprises at least one magnetic disk in the interior cavity of the housing. The magnetic storage device further comprises at least one read-write head in the interior cavity and configured to read data from and write data to the magnetic disk. The read-write head comprises a heat-assisted magnetic storage (HAMR) head. The magnetic storage device additionally comprises a gas, comprising oxygen and helium, sealed in the interior cavity of the housing. A percent concentration of oxygen in the gas is greater than or equal to 3%. A pressure of the gas is between 10% and 70%, inclusive, of atmospheric pressure. A relative humidity within the interior cavity is less than 5%, inclusive. A percent concentration of helium in the gas is less than or equal to 90%.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Kenji Tasaka, Yuichiro Sano, Ehsan Rismaniyazdi, Barry Stipe, Nobuyuki Okunaga, Erhard Schreck, Oscar Ruiz, Qing Dai, Sripathi V. Canchi, Weidong Huang, Yong Hu, Kenji Kuroki
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Patent number: 9747935Abstract: A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write apparatus has a media-facing surface (MFS) and is coupled with a laser that provides energy. The HAMR write apparatus includes a waveguide, a near-field transducer (NFT), a pole and coil(s) for energizing the pole. The waveguide is optically coupled with the laser and directs a first portion of the energy toward the MFS. The NFT is optically coupled with the waveguide. The pole writes to a region of the media and includes a pole tip. A first portion of the pole tip is at the MFS and is separated from the NFT in a down track direction. A second portion of the pole tip is recessed from the MFS and between the first portion and the NFT.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL (FREMONT), LLCInventors: Barry Stipe, Yi Wang, Zhigang Bai, Stanley Burgos
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Patent number: 9564838Abstract: Disclosed is a magnet in a high vacuum tube levitated by at least one magnet outside the tube and stabilized by at least one diamagnet inside or outside the tube. The magnet may have a rotational symmetry axis aligned with the magnetization axis and the diamagnet may be laminated to minimize eddy-current damping. The magnet or magnets outside the tube are used to control the levitation position and to temporarily bring the magnet into contact with a part of the tube structure. Contact is used in combination with a rotor to initiate the spinning motion of the magnet. The passively spinning and levitating magnet will continue to spin for an unusually long period of time due to the lack of contact and extremely low air drag and eddy-current friction.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Inventor: Barry Stipe
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Publication number: 20160065098Abstract: Disclosed is a magnet in a high vacuum tube levitated by at least one magnet outside the tube and stabilized by at least one diamagnet inside or outside the tube. The magnet may have a rotational symmetry axis aligned with the magnetization axis and the diamagnet may be laminated to minimize eddy-current damping. The magnet or magnets outside the tube are used to control the levitation position and to temporarily bring the magnet into contact with a part of the tube structure. Contact is used in combination with a rotor to initiate the spinning motion of the magnet. The passively spinning and levitating magnet will continue to spin for an unusually long period of time due to the lack of contact and extremely low air drag and eddy-current friction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2014Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventor: Barry Stipe
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Patent number: 7821822Abstract: Read/write elements for three-dimensional magnetic memories are disclosed. One embodiment describes an array of integrated read/write elements. The array includes read conductors formed proximate to one of the layers (i.e., storage stacks) of the three-dimensional magnetic memory. The array also includes flux caps formed proximate to the read conductors, and read sensors formed proximate to the flux caps. The array also includes a magnetic pole having a first end contacting the read sensor and a second end opposite the first end. First write conductors are fabricated between the magnetic poles, and second write conductors are also fabricated between the magnetic poles orthogonal to the first write conductors. The first write conductors and the second write conductors form current loops around the magnetic poles.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2008Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands, B.V.Inventors: Robert E. Fontana, Jr., Jordan A. Katine, Ching Hwa Tsang, Barry Stipe, Bruce D. Terris
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Publication number: 20100039849Abstract: Read/write elements for three-dimensional magnetic memories are disclosed. One embodiment describes an array of integrated read/write elements. The array includes read conductors formed proximate to one of the layers (i.e., storage stacks) of the three-dimensional magnetic memory. The array also includes flux caps formed proximate to the read conductors, and read sensors formed proximate to the flux caps. The array also includes a magnetic pole having a first end contacting the read sensor and a second end opposite the first end. First write conductors are fabricated between the magnetic poles, and second write conductors are also fabricated between the magnetic poles orthogonal to the first write conductors. The first write conductors and the second write conductors form current loops around the magnetic poles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2008Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Robert E. Fontana, JR., Jordan A. Katine, Ching Hwa Tsang, Barry Stipe, Bruce D. Terris
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Publication number: 20080037349Abstract: A three-dimensional solid-state memory is formed from a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of layers, a plurality of tree structures and a plurality of plate lines. Bit lines extend in a first direction in a first plane. Each layer includes an array of memory cells, such as ferroelectric or hysteretic-resistor memory cells. Each tree structure corresponds to a bit line, has a trunk portion and at least one branch portion. The trunk portion of each tree structure extends from a corresponding bit line, and each tree structure corresponds to a plurality of layers. Each branch portion corresponds to at least one layer and extends from the trunk portion of a tree structure. Plate lines correspond to at least one layer and overlap the branch portion of each tree structure in at least one row of tree structures at a plurality of intersection regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2007Publication date: February 14, 2008Inventor: Barry Stipe
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Publication number: 20070132049Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention includes a low-cost unipolar rewritable variable-resistance memory device, made of cross-point arrays of memory cells, vertically stacked on top of one another and compatible with a polycrystalline silicon diode.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventor: Barry Stipe
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Publication number: 20070064348Abstract: A nano-sized CPP aperture is precisely positioned to within a few nanometers of a slider ABS surface to maximize a signal from the disk and to prevent lapping damage to the aperture itself. A linear array of apertures is aligned perpendicular to the ABS plane. The head resistance is monitored during lapping. Each time an aperture is lapped through, there is an increase in head resistance that is equal to the inverse of the total aperture area. There are three equal-sized apertures that are evenly spaced apart. When the first aperture is lapped through, there is a 50% increase in resistance, and a 100% increase in resistance when the second aperture is lapped through. These resistance increases are very large and are easy to distinguish from noise.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2005Publication date: March 22, 2007Inventor: Barry Stipe
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Patent number: 7123440Abstract: A hermetic sealing approach involves welding an Aluminum cover onto a low-cost Aluminum housing. According to an example embodiment of the present invention, a metal housing having a base and sidewalls extending upward therefrom is adapted to receive and couple to an HDD arrangement. The metal housing is formed using material and processing (e.g., cold formed or die cast Aluminum) that are relatively inexpensive. A feedthrough arrangement including a plurality of communication pins extends through an opening in the base and is coupled thereto, with the communication pins adapted to pass signals between the inside and the outside of the metal housing. A metal cover is welded to an upper portion of the sidewalls and, with the feedthrough arrangement, hermetically seals the metal housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2003Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.Inventors: David Albrecht, Barry Stipe, Timothy C. Strand
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Publication number: 20060187585Abstract: A slider for use in a magnetic data recording system that is constructed from a Si wafer by a method that saves valuable wafer real estate by minimizing kerf related to the cutting of the wafer into slider rows. The sliders are produced from a (110) oriented Si wafer, and the sliders are parsed into rows by a process that involves forming a mask having a trench or opening between the rows of sliders at the location of the desired cut and parallel to a vertical (111) plane of the wafer. The wafer is then exposed to KOH which removes wafer material in the vertical direction through the wafer without removing wafer material in the horizontal direction. The vertical removal of wafer material is due to the extreme preferential removal of the (110) surface Si over that of the (111) surface Si. This results in a narrow straight trench being formed. The KOH etch removal can form a trench or cut having a width of only 30 to 50 um through a 1 mm thick wafer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2005Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Timothy Reiley, Barry Stipe
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Publication number: 20060092570Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a slider with a lift pad and a thermal protrusion pad in which the heads are located. The lift pad is located immediately in front of the thermal protrusion pad and is designed to achieve the flying characteristics needed for normal operation of the disk drive. The thermal protrusion pad includes a heater which is used to protrude the pad for burnishing-on-demand and/or for thermal fly-height control. The thermal protrusion pad is designed to generate very little lift so that protruding the thermal protrusion pad does not significantly increase the lift expericence by the slider. An alternative embodiment uses two overcoat thicknesses on the ABS surface with the thermal protrusion pad having a thin overcoat and the lift pad having a thicker overcoat.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2004Publication date: May 4, 2006Inventors: Robert Payne, Barry Stipe