Erhard Schreck
96Patents
21h-index
132Co-inventors
91Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 30, 1994 → Sep 1, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6157510A | Magnetic storage device with multiple read elements which are offset laterally and longitudinally | Physics | 71 | Expired |
| US6266205A | Parallel servo with ultra high bandwidth off-track detection | Physics | 64 | Expired |
| US7369345B1 | Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection | Physics | 55 | Active |
| US5827424A | Contaminant reduction system for disk drives | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US7199960B1 | Disk drive with AC exciter for head/disk interface | Physics | 37 | Expired |
| US5864241A | Magnetic transducer with wear indicator in a magnetic data storage system | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US7170700B1 | Method of determining side track erasure in a disk drive | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US7324299B1 | Disk drive that positions a head at multiple head-to-disk spacings | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US5757590A | Fusible-link removable shorting of magnetoresistive heads for electrostatic discharge protection | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7400473B1 | Slider with independent fly-height adjustment of reader and writer | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US7995425B2 | Power control of TAMR element during read/write transition | Physics | 29 | Active |
| US7532434B1 | Recessed write pole for perpendicular recording | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| US5638237A | Fusible-link removable shorting of magnetoresistive heads for electrostatic discharge protection | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US7345837B1 | Disk drive that refreshes data on portions of a disk based on a number of write operations thereto | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6980383B2 | Monitoring of phenomena indicative of PTP in a magnetic disk drive | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7502205B1 | Method of operating read and write transducers by controlling thermal actuation | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6999265B1 | Method and system for dual element transducer flight height adjustment using combined thermal and electrostatic control | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US8036069B1 | Plasmon shield to shape and reduce optical spot | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US7362534B1 | System for detecting a change in head-to-disk contact status in a disk drive | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6005736A | Method and means for active shock protection in a magnetic disk storage device using electrostatic forces | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6054330A | Method for protecting a magnetoresistive sensor element | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US6717759B1 | Hindering PTP in a hard disk | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US8295132B2 | Plasmon shield to shape and reduce optical spot | Physics | 17 | Active |
| US5880587A | Method and apparatus for performing in file slider take-off measurements through tuned external AE detection | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6005990A | System for optically scanning images using optical shutter | Electricity | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.