Patents by Inventor Mark Anthony Gubbins
Mark Anthony Gubbins 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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Publication number: 20240112696Abstract: A heat-assisted magnetic recording head includes a laser, a near-field transducer, a primary waveguide, a secondary waveguide, and a photodiode. The laser is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation. The near-field transducer is configured to focus and emit an optical near-field. The primary waveguide configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation and propagate the electromagnetic radiation toward and proximal to the near-field transducer. The secondary waveguide configured to receive a portion of the electromagnetic radiation from the primary waveguide. The photodiode configured to receive the portion of the electromagnetic radiation from the secondary waveguide and emit a signal that represents a magnitude of the electromagnetic radiation that the laser emits.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Mark Anthony Gubbins, Christopher Neil Harvey, Aidan Dominic Goggin, Fadi El Hallak, Reshma Anamari Mohandas, Bryn John Howells, Scott Eugene Olson
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Publication number: 20230110250Abstract: A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Helene Parwana Habibi, Simon Bance, Martin Liam McGarry, Raul Horacio Andruet, Martin Giles Blaber, Weibin Chen, John Charles Duda, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Erik Jon Hutchinson, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Michael Allen Seigler, Chen Wang
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Patent number: 11538496Abstract: A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Helene Parwana Habibi, Simon Bance, Martin Liam McGarry, Raul Horacio Andruet, Martin Giles Blaber, Weibin Chen, John Charles Duda, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Erik Jon Hutchinson, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Michael Allen Seigler, Chen Wang
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Patent number: 11532322Abstract: The presently disclosed technology teaches integrating disc drive electronics into a transducer head. Decreased electrical transit times and data processing times can be achieved by placing the electronics on or within the transducer head because electrical connections may be made physically shorter than in conventional systems. The electronics may include one or more of a control system circuit, a write driver, and/or a data buffer. The control system circuit generates a modified clock signal that has a fixed relation to phase and frequency of a bit-detected reference signal that corresponds to positions of patterned bits on the disc. The write driver writes outgoing data bits received from an external connection to off-head electronics directly to the writer synchronized with the modified clock signal. The data buffer stores and converts digital data bits sent from the off-head electronics to an analog signal that is synchronized with the modified clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Mark Anthony Gubbins, Robert William Lamberton, Robert Edward Weinstein, James Joseph Touchton
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Patent number: 11443764Abstract: An apparatus includes a slider configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording. The slider includes an input coupler configured to receive light excited by a light source. The slider includes a waveguide core tapering along a light propagation direction from a first cross-sectional width to a second cross-sectional width, the waveguide configured to provide a surface plasmon-enhanced near-field radiation pattern proximate an output end in response to the received light. One or more cladding layers surround the waveguide core. At least one strip of plasmonic material is disposed between the waveguide core and at least one of the one or more cladding layers.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Choon How Gan, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Beverley Rutherford McConnell, Martin Peter McCurry, Michael James Hardy, Andres David Barbosa Neira, Fadi El Hallak, Anil Kumar Puri
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Patent number: 11410698Abstract: A disk drive has a recording head slidably coupled to a rail and in magnetic communication with a disk surface. The recording head has an optical power interface and an optical data interface. An optical transceiver is fixably mounted proximate an end of the rail and optically coupled to the optical power interface and/or the optical data interface of the recording head. The coupling between the optical transceiver and the interfaces facilitates writing data to the disk surface and/or reading data from the disk surface via the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventor: Mark Anthony Gubbins
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Publication number: 20220044700Abstract: The presently disclosed technology teaches integrating disc drive electronics into a transducer head. Decreased electrical transit times and data processing times can be achieved by placing the electronics on or within the transducer head because electrical connections may be made physically shorter than in conventional systems. The electronics may include one or more of a control system circuit, a write driver, and/or a data buffer. The control system circuit generates a modified clock signal that has a fixed relation to phase and frequency of a bit-detected reference signal that corresponds to positions of patterned bits on the disc. The write driver writes outgoing data bits received from an external connection to off-head electronics directly to the writer synchronized with the modified clock signal. The data buffer stores and converts digital data bits sent from the off-head electronics to an analog signal that is synchronized with the modified clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Mark Anthony Gubbins, Robert William Lamberton, Robert Edward Weinstein, James Joseph Touchton
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Publication number: 20210366515Abstract: A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Helene Parwana Habibi, Simon Bance, Martin Liam McGarry, Raul Horacio Andruet, Martin Giles Blaber, Weibin Chen, John Charles Duda, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Erik Jon Hutchinson, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Michael Allen Seigler, Chen Wang
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Patent number: 11183207Abstract: The presently disclosed technology teaches integrating disc drive electronics into a transducer head. Decreased electrical transit times and data processing times can be achieved by placing the electronics on or within the transducer head because electrical connections may be made physically shorter than in conventional systems. The electronics may include one or more of a control system circuit, a write driver, and/or a data buffer. The control system circuit generates a modified clock signal that has a fixed relation to phase and frequency of a bit-detected reference signal that corresponds to positions of patterned bits on the disc. The write driver writes outgoing data bits received from an external connection to off-head electronics directly to the writer synchronized with the modified clock signal. The data buffer stores and converts digital data bits sent from the off-head electronics to an analog signal that is synchronized with the modified clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Mark Anthony Gubbins, Robert William Lamberton, Robert Edward Weinstein, James Joseph Touchton
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Patent number: 11120830Abstract: A recording head includes a substrate, a read transducer, a waveguide core, and a near-field transducer at an end of the waveguide core proximate a media-facing surface. The recording head includes a magnetic write pole and coil. A laser diode unit with one or more non-self-supporting layers of crystalline material region is transfer printed between layers of the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Aidan Dominic Goggin, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Paula Frances McElhinney, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., John Wolf
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Patent number: 11011201Abstract: A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Helene Parwana Habibi, Simon Bance, Martin Liam McGarry, Raul Horacio Andruet, Martin Giles Blaber, Weibin Chen, John Charles Duda, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Erik Jon Hutchinson, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Michael Allen Seigler, Chen Wang
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Patent number: 10916262Abstract: A device including a near field transducer, the near field transducer including a near field transducer, the near field transducer comprising a copper (Cu) alloy of the formula Cu1?zXz, where z ranges from 0.001 to 0.9 and X is selected from aluminum (Al), cobalt (Co), chromium (Cr), erbium (Er), iron (Fe), gold (Au), hafnium (Hf), iridium (Ir), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), platinum (Pt), rhenium (Re), rhodium (Rh), ruthenium (Ru), silicon (Si), tin (Sn), tantalum (Ta), tellurium (Te), titanium (Ti), tungsten (W), yttrium (Y), zinc (Zn), zirconium (Zr), or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Muhammed Bilal Janjua, Martin Peter McCurry, Michael James Hardy, Mark Anthony Gubbins
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Publication number: 20210027809Abstract: A recording head comprises a write pole extending to an air-bearing surface. A near-field transducer is positioned proximate a first side of the write pole in a down-track direction. A heatsink structure is proximate the near-field transducer and positioned between the near-field transducer and the write pole. The heatsink structure extends beyond the near-field transducer in a cross-track direction and extends in a direction normal to the air-bearing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2019Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Helene Parwana Habibi, Simon Bance, Martin Liam McGarry, Raul Horacio Andruet, Martin Giles Blaber, Weibin Chen, John Charles Duda, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Erik Jon Hutchinson, Vivek Krishnamurthy, Michael Allen Seigler, Chen Wang
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Publication number: 20200365176Abstract: The presently disclosed technology teaches integrating disc drive electronics into a transducer head. Decreased electrical transit times and data processing times can be achieved by placing the electronics on or within the transducer head because electrical connections may be made physically shorter than in conventional systems. The electronics may include one or more of a control system circuit, a write driver, and/or a data buffer. The control system circuit generates a modified clock signal that has a fixed relation to phase and frequency of a bit-detected reference signal that corresponds to positions of patterned bits on the disc. The write driver writes outgoing data bits received from an external connection to off-head electronics directly to the writer synchronized with the modified clock signal. The data buffer stores and converts digital data bits sent from the off-head electronics to an analog signal that is synchronized with the modified clock signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Mark Anthony Gubbins, Robert William Lamberton, Robert Edward Weinstein, James Joseph Touchton
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Patent number: 10783917Abstract: A recording head includes a substrate, a read transducer, a waveguide core, and a near-field transducer at an end of the waveguide core proximate a media-facing surface. The recording head includes a magnetic write pole and coil. A laser diode unit with one or more non-self-supporting layers of crystalline material region is transfer printed between layers of the recording head.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Aidan Dominic Goggin, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Paula Frances McElhinney, Roger L. Hipwell, Jr., John Wolf
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Patent number: 10748558Abstract: The presently disclosed technology teaches integrating disc drive electronics into a transducer head. Decreased electrical transit times and data processing times can be achieved by placing the electronics on or within the transducer head because electrical connections may be made physically shorter than in conventional systems. The electronics may include one or more of a control system circuit, a write driver, and/or a data buffer. The control system circuit generates a modified clock signal that has a fixed relation to phase and frequency of a bit-detected reference signal that corresponds to positions of patterned bits on the disc. The write driver writes outgoing data bits received from an external connection to off-head electronics directly to the writer synchronized with the modified clock signal. The data buffer stores and converts digital data bits sent from the off-head electronics to an analog signal that is synchronized with the modified clock signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Mark Anthony Gubbins, Robert William Lamberton, Robert Edward Weinstein, James Joseph Touchton
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Patent number: 10692525Abstract: An apparatus includes a substrate. A laser is formed on a non-self supporting structure and bonded to the substrate. A waveguide is deposited proximate the laser. The waveguide is configured to communicate light from the laser to a near-field transducer that directs energy resulting from plasmonic excitation to a recording medium. A light detector is configured to detect an amount of light. At least one laser heater is disposed proximate the laser. A controller is configured to control current supplied to the at least one heater based on the detected amount of light.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Aidan Dominic Goggin, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Kelly Elizabeth Callan, Reyad Mehfuz, Marcus B. Mooney, Fadi El Hallak, Paula Frances McElhinney
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Publication number: 20200098391Abstract: An apparatus includes a substrate. A laser is formed on a non-self supporting structure and bonded to the substrate. A waveguide is deposited proximate the laser. The waveguide is configured to communicate light from the laser to a near-field transducer that directs energy resulting from plasmonic excitation to a recording medium. A light detector is configured to detect an amount of light. At least one laser heater is disposed proximate the laser. A controller is configured to control current supplied to the at least one heater based on the detected amount of light.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: Aidan Dominic Goggin, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Kelly Elizabeth Callan, Reyad Mehfuz, Marcus B. Mooney, Fadi El Hallak, Paula Frances McElhinney
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Patent number: 10593355Abstract: A recording head that includes a bearing surface and a write pole having a front surface that forms a portion of the bearing surface. The recording head also includes a side shield for the write pole. The side shield includes a low saturation magnetization cap layer having a front surface that forms a portion of the bearing surface. The side shield also includes a main side shield layer having a saturation magnetization that is higher than a saturation magnetization value of the low saturation magnetization cap layer.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Swaraj Basu, Prim Gangmei, Angela Moore, Mark Anthony Gubbins, Beverley R. McConnell
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Patent number: 10431253Abstract: An input waveguide is disposed on a substrate-parallel plane and configured to receive light from an input surface. A mode converter joins the input waveguide at a junction away from the input surface. The mode converter converts the light from a fundamental mode to a higher-order mode. An input coupler is proximate to and overlapping the input waveguide parallel to the substrate-parallel plane. The input coupler extending from the input surface to the mode converter and has an asymmetric taper that transitions from a wider crosstrack dimension near the input surface to a narrower crosstrack dimension away from the input surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Seagate Technology, LLCInventors: John Bernard McGurk, Kelly Elizabeth Hamilton, Aidan Dominic Goggin, Mark Anthony Gubbins