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Mike Mallary has 160 patents: 110 issued U.S. patents, 2 re-issues, and >48 issued
foreign patents (which are not listed here).

PATENTS

9,042,058 – Shield Design for Middle Shields in a Multisensor Array, 5/26/15

9,034,492 – Sys. & Method for Controlling Damping of Magn. Media for Heat Assisted Magn. Rec., 5/19/15

8,995,086 - Write Head with Floating Side Shields and Enhanced Magnetic Potential, 3/31/15

8,929,180 - EAMR device having laser driving signal & magnetic write signal sharing same ele.cond. 1/6/15

8,923,102 - Optical grading coupling for interferometric wave guide in Heat Assisted Magn. Rec. 12/30/14

8,917,581 - Self-anneal process for a near field transducer and chimney in a HDD assembly, 12/23/14

8,908,330 - Spin torque oscillator for MAMR with optimal geometries,12/9/14.

8,891,207 - Connection scheme for a multiple sensor array usable in 2DMR, 11/18/2014.

8,675,455 - Systems and methods for controlling light phase difference in …, 3/18/14

8,658,292 - System & method for controlling damping of magnetic media for assisted magn. rec..., 2/25/14.

8.649,249 - Printing magnetic pattern onto disk, 2/11/14

8,605,382 - Disk Drive to Load a Head to a load/unload (LUL) zone of ..  12/10/13

8,599,653 - System and methods for reducing condensation along a slider, 12/3/13

8,462,463 - Write fringing reduction for recording media, 6/11/13.

8,456,967 - System & Method for Providing a Pole Pedestal for Microwave Assisted Magn. Rec., 6/4/13.

8,365,393 - Manufacturing Method for Write Heads with Floating Side Shields, 2/5/13

8,243,389 - Write Fringing Reduction for Recording Media, 8/14/12.

8,077,417 - Skip Block Writing for Bit Patterned Media, 12/13/11.

7,880,999 - Magnetic Storage System with Read During Write, 2/1/11

7,876,529 - Rec. Disk with AF Coupled multi-Layer FM Isl. Disposed in Trench Bet. Discrete Tracks,1/25/11

7,835,099 - Method and System for Error Checking in Bit Patterned Media , 11/16/10

7,796,358 - Method and Apparatus for Eliminating Spike Noise in a Soft Magnetic Under-layer, 9/14/10.

7,782,574 - Magn. Heads  Disk Dr. & Method with Thicker Read Shields for Red. Stray Field Sens., 8/24/10.

7,732,069 - Thin SUL Media with Shielded Pole Head, 6/8/10.

7,729,092 - Shielded Pole Writer Under Reader, 6/1/10

7,706,109 - Low Coefficient of Resistivity on Slider Tunneling …4/27/10.

7,688,544 - Magnetic Heads, Disk Drive, and Method with Floating Pole Tip … 3/30/10.

7,663,840 - Storage Apparatus having a Recording Medium with a Thermal Insulation Barrier, 2/16/10.

7,656,619 - Magn. Head Slider for Disk Drives having Heating Ele. and Ped. in Thk Undercoat Layer ,2/2/10 

7,620,772 - Method & Structure for Dyn. Data Den. in  a Dyn. Mapped Mass Storage Device, 11/17/09.

7,618,721 - Master for Printing Servo Patterns,  11/17/09.

7,593,305 - Remove Spherical Aberrations for 2 Photon Recording, 9/22/09.

7,589,936 - Center Tapped Write Coil .. 9/15/09.

7,573,683 - Write Head with Floating Side Shields… 8/11/09.

7,573,674 - Storage Disk having increased Damping Characteristics and Manufacturing Methods  8/11/09.

7,515,371 - Channel Postamble Extension to De-gauss Pole Tips , 4/7/09

7,511,921 - B2 – Read&Write Head with a Portion of the Write Coil Distributed about the Write Pole,3/31/09.

7,509,728 - Method for Adjusting Head-to-Disk Spacing in a Disk ,3/31/09.

7,477,470 - Controlling Head Fly Height Based on Head Heater Resistance, 1/13/09

7,430,095 - Tapered Write Pole for Reduced Skew Effect, 9/30/08.

7,403,356 - Disk Drive Having Slider Mover with Low Thermal Coefficient of Resistivity, 7/22/08.

7,375,915 - Disk Drive that Varies Power to a Transverse Mover During Disk Drive Operation, 5/20/08

7,372,664 - Tech. to Red. Adj.Trk Eras. Incl. a Write Pole with a Tip Having Faces at Angeles,5/13/08.

7,362,534 - System for Detecting a Change in Head to Disk Contact Status in a Disk Drive, 4/22/08.

7,324,304 - Tapered Write Pole for Reduced Skew Effect, 1/29/08.

7,310,194 - System for Monitoring& Dynamically Head to Disk Spacing in a Disk Drive,12/18/07.

7,292,414 - External Coil Bias for Giant Magneto-Resistive Sensor, 11/6/07.

7,289,302 - On Slider Inductors and Capacitors to Reduce Electrostatic Discharge Damage, 10/30/07.

7,234,227 - Method for Centering Disks in a Magn, Disk Assembly, 6/6/07.

7,230,790 - Magn. Disk Drive with Servo Bursts and Alternating Magn. Pol. Regions there between, 6/12/07

7,184,241 - Disk Drive that Performs Cold Writes to Erase Buffer, 2/27/07

7,182,844 - Lactose Test Apparatus, 2/27/07

7,161,755 - Increasing Areal Density in Magnetic Recording, 1/27/07

7,149,045 - Longitudinal Media with Soft Underlayer, 12/12/06

7,075,756 - Shielded Pole Writer, 7/11/06

6,966,225 - Capacitive Accelerometer with Liquid Dielectric, 11/22/05.

6,957,379 - Method and Apparatus for Selecting Storage Capacity of Data Storage Media, 10/18/05

6,950,277 - Concave Trailing Edge Write Pole for Perpendicular Recording, 9/27/05

6,842,313 - Floating Down Stream Perpendicular Write Head Shield, 1/11/05

6,813,106 - Premagnetization Process for Printed Longitudinal Media, 11/2/04.

6,765,379 - Method and Device for Testing Disk Drive Head while Directing Gas Across the Head – 7/20/04.

6,567,229 - Avoiding Asperities on a Storage Media – 5/20/03

6,430,123 - Scanning Micropatterns on an Optical Media - 8/6/02.

6,359,757 - Electrostatic Actuator 3/19/02.

6,359,744 - Reduced Thermal Decay of Data Signals Recorded on Magnetic Media 3/19/02.

6,351,436 - Field Enhancing Magnetic Pole for Magneto-Optic Recording and Reproduce Devise, 2/26/02.

6,307,719 - Suspension Assembly with Adjustable Gram Load, 10/23/01

6,236,513 - Integrated Objective Solid/Immersion Lens for Near Field Recording,5/22/01.                           

5,959,814 - Magnetic Disk Having Separate Park and Take-Off Zones,9/28/99.

5,940,253 - Laminated Plated Pole Pieces for Thin Film Magnetic Transducers, 8/17/99.

5,830,587 - Magnetic Devices with Enhanced Poles, 11/3/98

5,805,392 - Laminated Plated Pole Pieces for Thin Film Magnetic Transducers, 9/8/98

5,801,910 - Long Saturation Zone Magnetic Write Head, 9/1/98.

5,724,212 - Method and Apparatus for Increasing Data Den. in Magn. Data Storage Disk Drives 3/3/98.

5,654,854 - Long. Biased MR Sensor Having a Concave Shape ..., 8/5/97.

5,571,573 - Magnetic Device with Enhanced Poles, 11/5/96

5,431,969 - Method of Making Magnetic Media for Longitudinal Rec.,7/11/95.

5,428,893 - Transducer with Improved Inductive Coupling, 7/4/95.

5,428,887 - Method of Making a Trans. with Improved Ind. Coupling, 7/4/95.

5,384,680 - Perpendicular Anisotropy in Thin Film Devises, 1/24/95.

5,333,086 - Thin Film 2 Pole Ind. Head with Min. Secondary Pulses,7/26/94.

5,314,596 - Process for Fab. Mag. Film Rec. Heads for Use with...,5/24/94.

5,311,387 - Three Pole Magnetic Recording Head, 5/10/94.

5,311,386 - Transducer with Improved Inductive Coupling, 5/10/94.

5,267,112 - Thin Film Read/Write Head for Min. Erase Fringing and Method for Making the Same, 11/30/93.

5,240,740 - Thin Film Head with Minimized Secondary Pulses, 8/31/93.

5,229,901 - Side by Side Read/Write Heads with Rotary Positioner, 7/20/93.

5,226,966 - Apparatus for Prov. Uniaxial Ani. in Mag. Rec. Disk, 7/13/93.

5,195,005 - Transducer with Improved Inductive Coupling,(2XDiamond)3/16/93

5,193,039 - Permanent Magnet Easy-Axis Biased MagnetoResistive Head,3/9/93

5,184,267 - Transducer with Improved Inductive Coupling,("Diamond")2/2/93.

5,176,965 - Magnetic Medium for Longitudinal Recording,1/5/93.

5,157,570 - Mag. Pole Config. for High Den. Thin Film Rec. Head, 10/20/92.

5,147,679 - Method for Prov. Uniaxial Ani. in Mag. Rec. Disk, 9/15/92.

5,134,535 - Architecture for a Thin Film Magnetic Recording Head, 7/28/92.

5,111,352 - Three-Pole Magnetic Head with Reduced Flux Leakage, 5/5/92.

5,108,837 - Laminated Poles for Recording Heads, 4/28/92.

5,103,553 - Method of Making a Magnetic Recording Head, 4/14/92.

5,095,613 - Thin Film Head Slider Fab. Process, 3/17/92(Re 35,477-3/18/97).

5,089,334 - Flux Spreading Thin Film Magnetic Devices, 2/18/92.

5,085,935 - Flux Spreading Thin Film Magnetic Devices, 2/18/92.

4,935,832 - Recording Heads with Side Shields, 6/19/90.

4,931,886 - Apparatus and Method to Suppress Perpendicular  Fields in Longitudinal Recording, 6/5/90.

4,912,584 - Method for Fabricating Magnetic Recording Poles, 3/27/90.

4,907,113 - Three-Pole Magnetic Recording Head, 3/6/90.

4,828,966 - Method for Producing a Hall Effect Sensor for Magnetic Recording Heads, 5/9/89.

4,695,351 - Method for Producing Magnetic Heads, 9/22/87.

4,656,546 - Vertical Magnetic Recording Arrangement, 4/7/87. Re 33,949 6/2/92.  (Shielded Pole head)  

 

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