Patents by Inventor James Keith Price

James Keith Price 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).

  • Direct electrodeposition of magnetic recording head features
    Patent number: 8808524
    Abstract: A method is described for forming a magnetic recording head substrate. The method includes utilizing a metal feature on the magnetic recording head substrate as a grounding path. The magnetic recording head substrate is submerged in a solution containing ions of a second material, and the ions of the second material are electrodeposited on the magnetic recording head substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: David Christopher Seets, James Keith Price, Mary Elizabeth Leamont, Ibro Tabakovic, Steven Carl Riemer, Tracy Charles Baresh
  • DIRECT ELECTRODEPOSITION OF MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD FEATURES
    Publication number: 20100187120
    Abstract: A method is described for forming a magnetic recording head substrate. The method includes utilizing a metal feature on the magnetic recording head substrate as a grounding path. The magnetic recording head substrate is submerged in a solution containing ions of a second material, and the ions of the second material are electrodeposited on the magnetic recording head substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: David Christopher Seets, James Keith Price, Mary Elizabeth Learmont, Ibro Tabakovic, Steven Carl Riemer, Tracy Charles Baresh
  • Structure to achieve thermally stable high sensitivity and linear range in bridge GMR sensor using SAF magnetic alignments
    Patent number: 6771472
    Abstract: The invention provides a magnetic sensor having a first opposing pair and a second opposing pair of resistive elements configured in a Wheatstone bridge, wherein the resistive elements are a synthetic antiferromagnetic giant magnetoresistive sensor having a reference layer and a pinned layer of different thicknesses, wherein the first opposing pair has a net magnetic moment that is opposite to that of the second opposing pair, and wherein the first opposing pair has a thicker reference layer than pinned layer, and the second opposing pair has a thicker pinned layer than reference layer. Other embodiments of the invention have resistive elements that are opposingly bilayer and trilayer synthetic antiferromagnetic giant magnetoresistive sensors, or opposingly synthetic and standard antiferromagnetic giant magnetoresistive sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Sining Mao, Songsheng Xue, William Vavra, William Jude O'Kane, James Keith Price, Patrick Joseph Ryan