Inventor · Palo Alto, CA, US

Nahum Guzik

47Patents
15h-index
28Co-inventors
81Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 19, 1982 → Nov 28, 2016

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US4710686A Method and apparatus for control of current in a motor winding Electricity 92 Expired
US4958839A Disc clamp employing resilient cone for spreading balls Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 51 Expired
US4902971A Magnetic head and disc tester employing pivot arm on linearly movable slide Physics 41 Expired
US4627288A Bearing unloading mechanism for disc clamping unit Physics 25 Expired
US6229303A Spinstand for testing magnetic heads and disks Physics 22 Expired
US6229304A Apparatus for air flow stabilization in spinstands with a shroud assembly and a shell assembly Physics 21 Expired
US6242910A Magnetic head and disk tester with yaw correction Physics 20 Expired
US6023145A Head and disk tester with a thermal drift-compensated closed-loop positioning system Physics 20 Expired
US4829545A Method and apparatus for data window centering ina multifrequency data separator Electricity 19 Expired
US5825180A Magnetic disk test apparatus having heads moveable along substantially parallel axes Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US5254946A Magnetic head and disk tester with head centrally mounted on radially-moving, rotatable platform that surrounds disk Physics 17 Expired
US6212045A Method and apparatus for loading a magnetic head onto a magnetic disk Physics 16 Expired
US7141969B2 X-Y spinstand platform with flexure-coupled platen Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 16 Expired
US5491413A Positioning device for magnetic head and disk tester with rotating tool support Physics 16 Expired
US6006614A Apparatus and method for improving dynamic characteristics of a fine-positioning mechanism in a magnetic head/disk tester Physics 15 Expired
US4680516A Motor speed control system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 15 Expired
US7295002B2 Vacuum chuck spinstand for testing magnetic heads and disks Physics 15 Expired
US6236201A Magnetic head and disk tester with pitch correction Physics 13 Expired
US5382887A Method and apparatus for compensating positioning error in magnetic-head and magnetic-disk tester Physics 12 Expired
US4516060A Digital motor speed control Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US7836603B2 Headstack locator assembly for testing magnetic heads Physics 10 Active
US6064261A Write amplifier with improved switching performance, output common-mode voltage, and head current control Electricity 10 Expired
US7061235B2 Magnetic head and disk X-Y test assembly with optimized arrangement for skew angle Physics 10 Expired
US7429857B2 Magnetic head and disk X-Y test assembly with optimized arrangement for skew angle Physics 10 Active
US7532006B2 Stand-alone quasi-static tester Physics 9 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.