Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Tetsuo Semba

51Patents
14h-index
36Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Nov 17, 1992 → Jan 19, 2019

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6219196A Method and apparatus for suppressing mechanical resonance in a disk drive storage device using a notch filter Physics 40 Expired
US5504726A Method and apparatus for calibrating focus and tracking error signals in an optical drive with measuring offsets during track jumps Physics 29 Expired
US9286926B1 Two-dimensional magnetic recording (TDMR) disk drive with varying servo track pitch Physics 24 Active
US6614613B1 Phase technique for active damping in a servo-controlled actuator Physics 24 Expired
US8842507B1 Heat-assisted magnetic recording disk drive (HAMR) with thermal sensor and laser power prediction Physics 22 Active
US7079339B1 Dual-stage actuator disk drive with method for secondary-actuator failure detection and recovery using a relative-position sensor while track following Physics 19 Expired
US8724248B2 Method and apparatus for compensating vibration by adjusting track pitch Physics 19 Active
US7079338B1 Dual-stage actuator disk drive with method for secondary-actuator failure detection and recovery while track-following Physics 19 Expired
US7012777B1 Disk drive with capacitance sensing of disk vibration and feedforward control for removal of read/write head track misregistration Physics 17 Expired
US7206162B2 Seek trajectory generation using adaptive filtering Physics 16 Expired
US7133229B2 Magnetic recording disk drive with patterned media and compensation for write-clock timing error caused by rotational disturbances Physics 16 Expired
US9792938B1 Data storage device communicating servo information between servo channels of multiple actuators Physics 15 Active
US7035034B2 Data storage device, control device, off-track control method, and control method Physics 15 Expired
US7486470B1 Hard disk drive vibration cancellation using adaptive filter Physics 14 Active
US5768228A Method and sytem for cancelling optical servo crosstalk in optical disk drives Physics 14 Expired
US6831809B2 Rotary recording apparatus and method of controlling the apparatus Physics 14 Expired
US7177113B1 Magnetic recording disk drive with switchable rotational vibration cancellation Physics 12 Expired
US7010653B2 Data storage device, command queue re-ordering method, and data processing method and program Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Expired
US5760991A Disk storage unit positioning control for applying DC offsets to a tracking error Physics 11 Expired
US7375916B2 Magnetic recording disk drive with multiple feedforward controllers for rotational vibration cancellation Physics 11 Active
US7145746B1 Disk drive with adaptive control of periodic disturbances Physics 11 Expired
US5323368A Track crossing apparatus and method using the difference between pick-up velocity and a predetermined velocity Physics 10 Expired
US5317550A Apparatus and method for track access Physics 10 Expired
US7268968B2 Vibration suppression for servo control Physics 10 Expired
US7345841B2 Disk drive using a disturbance sensor for disturbance frequency-identification and suppression Physics 10 Expired

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