Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Bernhard Hiller

24Patents
7h-index
48Co-inventors
69Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 30, 1994 → Jun 21, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6452753B1 Universal load/unload ramp Physics 41 Expired
US7511914B2 Fly height compensation using temperature and non-repeatable runouts Physics 20 Active
US5838763A X-ray tube with a plain bearing Electricity 17 Expired
US5561570A Dynamically loaded suspension for contact recording Physics 12 Expired
US8065481B1 RAID system and method compatible with improved drive select Physics 11 Active
US6950272B1 Method and apparatus for the acoustic improvement of the pulsed current method for controlling the velocity of a transducer head Physics 9 Expired
US6985333B1 Load/unload-type disk drive slider having a negative pressure reduction hole Physics 7 Expired
US5654999A Liquid metal plain bearing Electricity 7 Expired
US7573674B1 Storage disk having increased damping characteristics in a disk drive Physics 6 Active
US7251575B2 Position measuring method and position measuring system used in the multiplication of signal periods Physics 6 Expired
US7355816B1 Load/unload ramps and their compositions Physics 5 Expired
US9064504B1 Electronic system with media recovery mechanism and method of operation thereof Physics 5 Active
US8539811B2 Rotary transducer with monitoring of the bearing wear and method therefor Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 4 Active
US5622435A Plain bearing having a bearing gap filled with liquid metal Electricity 3 Expired
US6903902B1 Load/unload ramps and their compositions Physics 2 Expired
US8732967B2 Process and incremental transducer for determining an actual position of a body along a measuring path of a material measure having at least one gap Physics 2 Active
US8584370B2 Absolute value transducer with discontinuity in coded absolute position Physics 1 Active
US8767337B2 Disk-synchronized loading/unloading of magnetic head Physics 0 Active
US10242704B2 Command clustering for data storage device Physics 0 Active
US10066963B2 Scanning head Physics 0 Active
US8620619B2 Rotary encoder comprising internal error control and method therefor Physics 0 Active
US6587299B1 Method for overcoming a stiction condition in disk drive Physics 0 Expired
US9142237B1 Slider of a disk drive having data favorable load/unload attitude Physics 0 Active
US10168182B2 Shaft encoder with magnetic shield Physics 0 Active

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