Soo-Choon Kang
15Patents
10h-index
22Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Aug 23, 1999 → Dec 4, 2018
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.