Inventor · Fremont, CA, US

Shanlin Duan

28Patents
9h-index
36Co-inventors
71Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 24, 1997 → Nov 8, 2010

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6143388A Thin film disk with onset layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 49 Expired
US6662623B2 Apparatus and method for glide height calibration of disk surfaces by use of dual-zone laser texture Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 21 Expired
US6771453B2 Glide slider fly height calibration method using disk spin down and slider dynamic scan Physics 18 Expired
US6314814A Method and apparatus for precise measurement of pressure dependence of head fly height using transitional thermal signals Physics 17 Expired
US6477008B1 Magnetic recording transducer with electronic shield Physics 15 Expired
US8102613B2 System, method and apparatus for determining track pitch in a hard disk drive to satisfy the requirements of both off-track capacity and adjacent track erasure Physics 15 Active
US7692888B2 Apparatus, system, and method for detection of fly height margin using controlled excitation of air bearing mode Physics 13 Active
US6174582A Thin film magnetic disk having reactive element doped refractory metal seed layer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 11 Expired
US7121133B2 System, method, and apparatus for glide head calibration with enhanced PZT channel for very low qualification glide heights Physics 10 Expired
US6407891B1 Magnetic read/write head having electromagnetic field cancellation element Physics 9 Expired
US6965229B2 Method of detecting polarity reversal in a magnetoresistive sensor Physics 8 Expired
US6526639B2 Method for burnishing hard disks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 8 Expired
US7724462B2 System, method and apparatus for direct head-disk clearance measurement by slider vibration and fly height calibration Physics 6 Active
US6357095B1 Hard disk burnishing head Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 6 Expired
US7271967B2 System and method for determining whether defect in perpendicular recording disk drive is from thermal asperity or defect in magnetically soft underlayer Physics 5 Expired
US6330122A Magnetic tester for disk surface scan Physics 4 Expired
US6413608B1 Seed layer and underlayer with high and low oxygen concentration portions for hand disk magnetic recording medium on a glass substrate Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US7173415B1 System, method, and apparatus for detecting signal-to-noise ratio decay in perpendicular magnetic recording Physics 2 Expired
US8618793B2 High sensitivity glide sensor using frictional heating Physics 2 Active
US6530258B2 Disk drive laser melt bump disk for accurate glide calibration and certification processing Physics 2 Expired
US6580266B2 Thin film delamination detection for magnetic disks Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 2 Expired
US8395857B2 Simulating discrete track media with continuous media for head evaluation Physics 2 Active
US7529049B2 Method and system for testing of magnetic disks using F-BER Physics 1 Active
US7969675B2 Determination of the quality of an erase process for perpendicular magnetic recording disks Physics 1 Active
US8133530B2 One magnetic sided media for low cost and low capacity applications Physics 0 Active

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