Nonuniform Width Transducing Face Patents (Class 360/125.51)
  • Patent number: 10470570
    Abstract: A coupling mechanism adapted for a slide rail includes a coupling base, a supporting member, and an adjustment member. The coupling base is detachably fixed to the slide rail. The supporting member includes a supporting portion. The adjustment member is configured for displacing and thereby adjusting the supporting member with respect to the coupling base in order to change the height of the supporting portion of the supporting member with respect to the slide rail through a guiding feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: King Slide Works Co., Ltd., King Slide Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken-Ching Chen, Shih-Lung Huang, Fang-Cheng Su, Ci-Bin Huang, Chun-Chiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10470569
    Abstract: A coupling mechanism adapted for a slide rail includes a first base, a second base, and an adjustment member. The slide rail includes a coupling base engaged with the first base. The second base is movably mounted on the first base. The adjustment member is configured for laterally displacing and thereby adjusting the second base with respect to the slide rail. More specifically, the adjustment member includes an adjusting portion, and one of the first base and the second base includes a transmission structure configured to work with the adjusting portion in order to convert a rotary movement of the adjustment member into a lateral displacement of the second base with respect to the slide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignees: King Slide Works Co., Ltd., King Slide Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ken-Ching Chen, Shih-Lung Huang, Fang-Cheng Su, Ci-Bin Huang, Chun-Chiang Wang
  • Patent number: 10049802
    Abstract: A semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a patterned magnetic feature disposed over a top surface of the substrate. The patterned magnetic feature is a magnetic material, and has undercut sidewalls providing a self-stop for electro-etching of the magnetic material. The semiconductor structure may form a closed-yoke inductor or a solenoid inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Eugene J. O'Sullivan, David L. Rath, Naigang Wang
  • Patent number: 9472214
    Abstract: A magnetoresistive (MR) sensor shield shields against both down track and cross-track interference. The shield can be formed in a single deposition step. In one implementation of the disclosed technology, a “tail” portion of the shield is eliminated by including a non-magnetic material adjacent to opposite sides of a middle portion of the sensor stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Xin Cao, Frances Paula McElhinney, Jiansheng Xu, Marcus Winston Ormston
  • Patent number: 9445671
    Abstract: A locking regulating device for drawer slide rail, comprising a slide rail component and a drawer, wherein the drawer is fixedly connected with the movable rail on the slide rail component, characterized in that, a locking regulating device fixed on the drawer is also included, the drawer is designed to latch the square hole on the movable rail through the locking regulating device to realize mutual connection; the locking regulating device comprises a locking mechanism and a regulating mechanism; the locking mechanism is composed of a handle and a lock catch through mutual transmission; through the lock catch, the regulating device is self-locked on the movable rail and acts on the handle to complete unlocking of the lock catch; the regulating mechanism is designed to respectively make three-dimensional regulation to the drawer from up/down, left/right and front/back directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Guangdong Taiming Metal Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tai Wai Ng
  • Patent number: 9355656
    Abstract: A tape write transducer includes a first yoke member, a second yoke member and a shield member arranged in a row so that row includes two gaps: an inter-yoke-member gap (between the two yoke members), and a shield-member gap (between one of the yoke members and the shield member). In operations using an underlayerless tape, the magnetic field in the inter-yoke member gap causes magnetic transitions to be written to the underlayerless recording medium in a point along the tape that is in vicinity to the inter-yoke-member gap. In operations using an underlayer tape, the magnetic field in the shield-member gap causes magnetic transitions to be written to the underlayer tape recording layer at a point along the tape that is in vicinity to the shield-member gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert G. Biskeborn, Robert E. Fontana, Jr., Pierre-Olivier Jubert
  • Patent number: 8854769
    Abstract: A slide rail assembly includes first and second rails. The second rail, slidable relative to the first rail, has a mounting hole. A connecting device includes first and second units, an engaging element, and an adjusting element. The second unit has a transverse guiding portion located at its counterpart of the first unit. The engaging element, connected to the second unit, has an engaging portion partially located in the mounting hole to connect the connecting device to the second rail. The adjusting element is connected to both units. The second unit is displaceable in response to rotation of the adjusting element, thereby enabling displacement of the engaging portion relative to the mounting hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignees: King Slide Works Co., Ltd., King Slide Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hsiu-Chiang Liang, Ken-Ching Chen, Chun-Chiang Wang
  • Patent number: 8848315
    Abstract: A method for forming a magnetic write pole with a trapezoidal cross-section is described. The method consists of first forming a magnetic seedlayer on a base followed by depositing a removable material layer on the seedlayer, and then a resist layer on the removable material layer. A trench is then formed in the resist, and the resist is heated to cause the cross -sectional profile of the trench to assume a trapezoidal shape. The resist is then capped with another resist layer and further heated to cause the width of the trapezoidal trench to become narrower. The cap layer and removable material layer at the bottom of the trench are then removed and the trench filled with magnetic material by electroplating. The resist and seedlayer external to the trench are finally removed to form a write pole with a trapezoidal cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: XiaoMin Yang, Shuaigang Xiao, Jie Gong, Michael Seigler
  • Patent number: 8353098
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a perpendicular magnetic recording head capable of easily and accurately forming a main magnetic-pole layer having a shape suitable for concentrating a magnetic flux is provided. A nonmagnetic layer having a recessed section (a first recessed section and a second recessed section) is formed, and then an additional nonmagnetic layer is formed on an inner surface of the recessed section. Then, a magnetic layer is formed in the recessed section formed with the additional nonmagnetic layer, and then the magnetic layer is cut to form an air bearing surface, so as to form the main magnetic-pole layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: SAE Magnetics (H.K.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuya Mino, Naoto Matono, Ikuhito Onodera, Kazushi Nishiyama, Michitoshi Tsuchiya, Kenji Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8318031
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic write head having a write pole with a tapered leading edge and a tapered trailing edge. The method includes forming a non-magnetic bump player over a surface, forming a mask over the non-magnetic bump layer and performing a first ion milling to form a tapered back edge on the non-magnetic bump layer. A magnetic write pole material is then deposited over the surface and over the non-magnetic bump layer. Then a non-magnetic step structure is formed over the magnetic write pole material and an ion milling is performed to form a taper on the upper surface of the write pole. The write pole lateral dimensions can then be defined, and a non-magnetic bump formed over the tapered portion of the upper surface of the write pole. Another ion milling can then be performed to extend the taper of the surface of the write pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Aron Pentek, Thomas J. A. Roucoux, Yi Zheng
  • Patent number: 8259411
    Abstract: A method for forming a magnetic write pole with a trapezoidal cross-section is described. The method consists of first forming a magnetic seedlayer on a base followed by depositing a removable material layer on the seedlayer, and then a resist layer on the removable material layer. A trench is then formed in the resist, and the resist is heated to cause the cross-sectional profile of the trench to assume a trapezoidal shape. The resist is then capped with another resist layer and further heated to cause the width of the trapezoidal trench to become narrower. The cap layer and removable material layer at the bottom of the trench are then removed and the trench filled with magnetic material by electroplating. The resist and seedlayer external to the trench are finally removed to form a write pole with a trapezoidal cross-section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: XiaoMin Yang, Shuaigang Xiao, Jie Gong, Michael Seigler
  • Patent number: 8176623
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing the magnetic head includes the steps of: forming the pole-layer-encasing layer; forming an initial nonmagnetic layer in the groove of the pole-layer-encasing layer by physical vapor deposition, the initial nonmagnetic layer being intended to become the nonmagnetic layer later by undergoing etching of a surface thereof; etching the surface of the initial nonmagnetic layer by dry etching so that the initial nonmagnetic layer becomes the nonmagnetic layer; and forming the pole layer in the pole-layer-encasing section formed by the nonmagnetic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Headway Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yoshitaka Sasaki, Hiroyuki Itoh, Shigeki Tanemura, Hironori Araki, Kazuo Ishizaki, Takehiro Horinaka
  • Patent number: 7990651
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic write head having a stepped trailing shield. The stepped trailing shield is formed by forming a non-magnetic bump over a write pole prior to electroplating a wrap-around magnetic shield. The method allows the location of the front edge of the bump relative to the back edge of the wrap-around shield to be monitored by measuring the electrical resistance of an electrical lapping guide formed concurrently with these features. This concurrent formation of a lapping guide can be used to define the relative location of other features as well, such as the location of a back edge of a wrap-around shield relative to a flare point of a write pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Hieu Lam, Vladimir Nikitin, Sue Siyang Zhang, Yi Zheng
  • Patent number: 7881010
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a magnetic write head having a write pole with a flared step feature that defines a secondary flare point. The method involves depositing a magnetic write pole material on a substrate and then depositing a magnetic material over the write pole material followed by a non-magnetic material. A first mask is formed having a front edge to define the location of the secondary flare point, and one or more material removal processes are used to remove portions of the magnetic layer and non-magnetic layer that are not protected by this first mask. The first mask is replaced by a second mask that is configured to define a write pole, and an ion milling is performed to define the write pole. Shadowing from the magnetic layer and non-magnetic layer form a flared secondary flare point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Hung-Chin Guthrie, Ming Jiang, Edward Hin Pong Lee, Aron Pentek, Sue Siyang Zhang, Yi Zheng
  • Patent number: 7821737
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a thin film magnetic head suitable for high density recording having a small erase band ?E and a small fringe magnetic field, and a large recording magnetic field. In one embodiment, a width LW of a lower magnetic pole piece protuberance of a leading side magnetic pole piece, at a face in contact with a write gap layer, is made smaller than a width TW of an upper magnetic pole piece front layer of a trailing side magnetic pole piece, at a face in contact with the write gap layer, and the width of the lower magnetic pole piece protuberance adjacent to the write gap layer is made larger, in a direction from the write gap layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Shigekazu Ohtomo, Hiroshi Fukui, Toshimi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 7675709
    Abstract: A magnetic write head structure that maximizes write field strength while minimizing stray fields. The write pole structure maximizes write field strength by minimizing saturation of the magnetic pole tips, and minimizes stray field writing by preventing magnetic fields from extending laterally from the sides of the magnetic pole. The write head structure includes a write pole having a pole tip configured with a stair notched shape and a steep shouldered base beneath the stair notched portion. This configuration maximizes the amount of flux that can be delivered to the pole tip while also avoiding stray fields. The magnetic pole can also be configured with wing shaped extensions that extend laterally from the pole tip region but which are recessed from the ABS by a desired amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Hung-Chin Guthrie, Wen-Chien David Hsiao, Jyh-Shuey Lo, Aron Pentek
  • Patent number: 7612964
    Abstract: A magnetic write head and method of manufacture thereof that has a first pole structure having a notched structure configured with a steep shoulder portion and a narrow vertical notch portion extending from the top of the steep shoulder portion. The write head also includes a second pole structure (P2) that has a very narrow width (track width) and that is self aligned with the narrow vertical notch structure of the first pole structure. The write head provides excellent magnetic properties including a very narrow track width and minimal side writing, while avoiding magnetic saturation of the poles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Daniel Wayne Bedell, Hieu Lam, Kim Y. Lee, Jyh-Shuey Lo