Patents by Inventor Shigeki Yanagihara-shi

Shigeki Yanagihara-shi 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).

  • Disk drive with a parking ramp for parking heads
    Publication number: 20020131212
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a disk drive that has heads and a loading/unloading mechanism including a parking ramp. The parking ramp is so structured that it is likely to contact the outermost area of a disk, never contacting or hitting the loading/unloading area of the disk, when the disk drive receives an external shock. The outermost area of the disk remains unused to record data or park the heads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventor: Shigeki Yanagihara-shi