Patents by Inventor Christopher James Thompson Rea

Christopher James Thompson Rea 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).

  • Magnetic writer pole with a graded magnetic moment
    Patent number: 7609478
    Abstract: A magnetic writer includes a write pole configured to reduce a skew effect during writing to a magnetic medium. A trailing portion of the write pole has a magnetic moment greater than a leading portion of the write pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Dehua Han, Xuefei Tang, Christopher James Thompson Rea, Jianhua Xue
  • Magnetic head having a heat dissipating structure
    Patent number: 6950280
    Abstract: A magnetic head having a heat dissipating structure formed of a thermally conductive material that includes a top heat transfer sheet overlaying a second portion of a writer conducting coil; a bottom heat transfer sheet formed in a back region of a bottom pole layer, displaced from a back side of a bottom writer pole, and underlaying the second portion of the writer conducting coil; a first side heat transfer member formed in a coil layer adjacent a first side of the writer conducting coil; and/or a second side heat transfer member formed in the coil layer adjacent a second side of the writer conducting coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Christopher James Thompson Rea, Ladislav Rudolf Pust, Michael Christopher Kautzky, Mallika Kamarajugadda
  • Magnetic head having a heat dissipating structure
    Publication number: 20040080869
    Abstract: A magnetic head having a heat dissipating structure formed of a thermally conductive material that includes a top heat transfer sheet overlaying a second portion of a writer conducting coil; a bottom heat transfer sheet formed in a back region of a bottom pole layer, displaced from a back side of a bottom writer pole, and underlaying the second portion of the writer conducting coil; a first side heat transfer member formed in a coil layer adjacent a first side of the writer conducting coil; and/or a second side heat transfer member formed in the coil layer adjacent a second side of the writer conducting coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher James Thompson Rea, Ladislav Rudolf Pust, Michael Christopher Kautzky, Mallika Kamarajugadda