Patents by Inventor Kenichi Shitara

Kenichi Shitara 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).

  • Patent number: 7035039
    Abstract: A piezo actuator is provided between a suspension spring and a head carriage. When a predetermined track of a magnetic disk is accessed by positioning a magnetic head in the predetermined track, the piezo actuator maintains the magnetic head in an ON track state by dynamically moving a light weight head cartridge according to a servo information or dynamically moving a head assembly in the head cartridge according the servo information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Hitachi Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Shitara, Akihiro Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20030128456
    Abstract: A piezo actuator is provided between a suspension spring and a head carriage. When a predetermined track of a magnetic disk is accessed by positioning a magnetic head in the predetermined track, the piezo actuator maintains the magnetic head in an ON track state by dynamically moving a light weight head cartridge according to a servo information or dynamically moving a head assembly in the head cartridge according the servo information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Inventors: Kenichi Shitara, Akihiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 6552535
    Abstract: A magnetic disk certifier includes a defect detector circuit comprising a low-pass filter for extracting a low frequency component of the read-out signal, the low frequency component containing a signal component of the error, a signal generator circuit for generating a signal having a predetermined frequency lower than the frequency of the read-out signal, a synthesizer circuit for synthesizing an output signal of the low-pass filter and the signal outputted from the signal generator circuit and a comparator for generating an error signal by comparing the synthesized signal from the synthesizer circuit with a predetermined reference level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Hitachi Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshiharu Funaki, Shinji Honma, Kenichi Shitara, Hideki Mochiduki
  • Patent number: 6473258
    Abstract: A magnetic disk read/write circuit comprises a core having a pair of coils wound such that signals supplied to the coils becomes opposite in phase and a read circuit having a first input terminal connected to one of terminals of a read head through one of the coils to receive a read signal from the read head and a second input terminal connected to the other terminal of the read head through the other coil to receive the read signal from the read head or a write circuit in which the read head is a write head, the signal at the first input terminal is a signal at the first output terminal and the signal at the second input terminal is a signal at a second input terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2002
    Assignee: Hitachi Electronics Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichi Shitara, Kazuo Honma
  • Publication number: 20020041184
    Abstract: A magnetic disk certifier includes a defect detector circuit comprising a low-pass filter for extracting a low frequency component of the read-out signal, the low frequency component containing a signal component of the error, a signal generator circuit for generating a signal having a predetermined frequency lower than the frequency of the read-out signal, a synthesizer circuit for synthesizing an output signal of the low-pass filter and the signal outputted from the signal generator circuit and a comparator for generating an error signal by comparing the synthesized signal from the synthesizer circuit with a predetermined reference level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2001
    Publication date: April 11, 2002
    Inventors: Toshiharu Funaki, Shinji Honma, Kenichi Shitara, Hideki Mochiduki