Mike Suk
57Patents
14h-index
41Co-inventors
80Inventor score
Filing activity: Dec 13, 1995 → Jun 8, 2010
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US7126777B2 | Disk drive with selectable power source for heater in a slider | Physics | 62 | Expired |
| US6069769A | Air bearing slider having rounded corners | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US6266199A | Method of apparatus to characterize and limit the effect of disk damage in a hard disk drive | Physics | 40 | Expired |
| US5864241A | Magnetic transducer with wear indicator in a magnetic data storage system | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5959801A | Stiction reduction in disk drives using heating | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5872686A | Magnetic storage system having an improved slider having rounded corners to minimize disk damage | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US7190543B2 | Method and apparatus for optimizing flying height control using heated sliders | Physics | 28 | Expired |
| US6972919B2 | Increasing head-disk interface reliability using controlled heating | Physics | 27 | Expired |
| US6101062A | Method and apparatus for unloading head from disk before a shock to a disk drive system | Physics | 25 | Expired |
| US7336434B2 | Predictive failure analysis of thermal flying height control system and method | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US6084753A | Method and apparatus for removing debris from a slider in a disk drive using load/unload technology | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US7199982B2 | Eliminating ESD exposure for read/write head with heating element | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US6937419B2 | Method and apparatus for recovering load/unload zone real estate on data storage media in data storage devices to increase a data storage capacity thereof | Physics | 15 | Expired |
| US7278902B1 | Enabling location specific burnishing of a disk | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 14 | Expired |
| US7124625B1 | Glide-height disk-tester and method of operation | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US7236330B2 | Disk head stability system | Physics | 12 | Expired |
| US6501624B1 | Multiple zone data storage system and method | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US6246534A | Hard disk drive with lube on demand actuators | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7224547B2 | Increasing head-disk interface reliability using controlled heating | Physics | 10 | Expired |
| US7119979B2 | Measurement of slider clearance by inducing collision of the slider with disk surface | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US6301073A | Device for preventing mechanical shock-induced damage between actuator and disk in computer hard disk drive | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US5798884A | Multiple zone data storage system and method | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US7480115B2 | Magnetic disk drive with heater to control flying height and manufacturing method thereof | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US6421205B1 | Recessed slider trailing edge for reducing stiction | Physics | 8 | Expired |
| US6754024B2 | System and method for reducing the accumulation of actuator bearing grease in hard disk drives | Physics | 7 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.