Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Soo-Choon Kang

15Patents
10h-index
22Co-inventors
72Inventor score

Filing activity: Aug 23, 1999 → Dec 4, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7436620B1 Method for selecting an electrical power to be applied to a head-based flying height actuator Physics 168 Active
US7440220B1 Method for defining a touch-down power for head having a flying height actuator Physics 167 Active
US7974039B1 Disk drive to reduce head instability Physics 138 Active
US7675707B1 Disk drive employing repeatable disturbance compensation for fly height control Physics 135 Active
US8699173B1 Disk drive detecting touchdown event by evaluating frequency response of a touchdown metric Physics 99 Active
US8786976B1 Disk drive detecting when head is on ramp Physics 51 Active
US6775103B2 Slider head having thermally controlled distal end and assembly with a rotating disc Physics 29 Expired
US6333835A Step pad air bearing for load/unload mechanism Physics 22 Expired
US6477013B1 Slider air bearing design and method providing writing of a laser field (WOLF) measurement without substantial fly height affect Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Expired
US6680821B2 Slider air bearing surface having improved fly height profile characteristics Physics 10 Expired
US7009813B2 Apparatus and method of configuring the air bearing surfaces of sliders in disk drives for producing high temperatures in thermally-assisted recordings Physics 8 Expired
US6674611B2 Air bearing design producing steeper ramp profile near the laser texture zone Physics 5 Expired
US10410656B1 Data storage device pre-biasing a spin torque oscillator prior to a write operation Physics 3 Active
US8861126B1 Disk drive detecting when head is on ramp Physics 2 Active
US7817286B2 Iteration method to improve the fly height measurement accuracy by optical interference method and theoretical pitch and roll effect Physics 1 Active

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