Inventor · Los Gatos, CA, US

Kris Schouterden

18Patents
6h-index
30Co-inventors
66Inventor score

Filing activity: Dec 14, 1999 → Sep 17, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6618221B2 System and method for utilizing an actuator-activated pumping mechanism for reducing the operating pressure of a disk drive assembly Physics 44 Expired
US6359433B1 Method and apparatus for preventing data loss in disk drives using predictive failure analysis of magnetoresistive head resistance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 40 Expired
US6700726B1 Method for controlling air pressure in an evacuated disk drive Physics 14 Expired
US6603628B1 In-situ pressure sensor based on read head resistance Physics 9 Expired
US8131920B2 Method and system for dynamically allocating read and write sequence randomizer Physics 8 Active
US8169730B2 Suppressing adjacent track interference/far track interference (ATI/FTI) in a hard disk drive (HDD) by an external magnetic field Physics 8 Active
US8068306B2 Write quality of HDD heads experiencing temporary fly-height problems Physics 5 Active
US6407880B1 Environmental corrosion protection for hard disk drive elements by thermal activation Physics 4 Expired
US9047921B2 Adjusting recording density in a circumferential direction Physics 3 Active
US7920350B2 Adaptive data recovery procedure based on radial positioning Physics 3 Active
US6934101B2 Method and apparatus using reverse disk rotation to achieve slider contact with a disk surface Physics 3 Expired
US6683743B2 Method for controlling the velocity of an actuator arm in a hard disk drive Physics 3 Expired
US7094129B2 Magnetic recording head burnishing method Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US7446966B2 Method for precompensation/write-current latching to improve error rate Physics 1 Expired
US11768701B2 Exception analysis for data storage devices Electricity 0 Active
US7643240B2 Adjusting a fly-height in hard disk drives Physics 0 Active
US7492539B2 Method for controlling a burnish cycle to minimize cycle time Physics 0 Expired
US9368137B2 Self-cleaning recording heads based on actuator seek profile Physics 0 Active

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