Tomohito Mizuno
71Patents
6h-index
35Co-inventors
72Inventor score
Filing activity: Oct 10, 1991 → Jan 12, 2024
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US8169731B2 | Near-field light transducer comprising propagation edge with predetermined curvature radius | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US7961438B2 | Magnetoresistive device of the CPP type, and magnetic disk system | Physics | 11 | Active |
| US7609490B2 | Magnetoresistive device, thin film magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, head arm assembly, magnetic disk apparatus, synthetic antiferromagnetic magnetization pinned layer, magnetic memory cell, and current sensor | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US7782575B2 | Magnetoresistive element having free layer, pinned layer, and spacer layer disposed therebetween, the spacer layer including semiconductor layer | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US7656621B2 | Magneto-resistive element having a cap layer for canceling spin injection effect | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US11703380B2 | Receiving device, transceiver device, communication system, portable terminal device, and photodetection element | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US7672085B2 | CPP type magneto-resistive effect device having a semiconductor oxide spacer layer and magnetic disk system | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8000066B2 | Hard disk system incorporating a current perpendicular to plane magneto-resistive effect device with a spacer layer in the thickness range showing conduction performance halfway between OHMIC conduction and semi-conductive conduction | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US7855859B2 | Magnetoresistive element and magnetic head | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US7672092B2 | Method for manufacturing magnetic field detecting element, utilizing diffusion of metal | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Active |
| US11722222B2 | Transceiver device | Electricity | 5 | Active |
| US8094420B2 | Magnetoresistive device of the CCP (current perpendicular to plane) type with single-domain control of magnetization, and associated magnetic disk system | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US8666692B2 | Method of estimating curie temperature distribution in a magnetic recording layer | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US8614934B1 | Method for characterization evaluation of thermally-assisted magnetic recording device | Physics | 4 | Active |
| US7310210B2 | Magnetoresistive sensor having cobalt-iron alloy layer in free layer | Physics | 4 | Expired |
| US7826180B2 | Magneto-resistive effect device of the CPP structure, and magnetic disk system | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US7533456B2 | Fabrication process for magneto-resistive effect devices of the CPP structure | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 4 | Active |
| US5210736A | Mobile recording-medium playing apparatus | Performing Operations; Transporting | 4 | Expired |
| US8472149B2 | CPP type magneto-resistive effect device and magnetic disk system | Electricity | 4 | Active |
| US7920362B2 | Magnetio-resistive device including a multi-layer spacer which includes a semiconductor oxide layer | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US7885042B2 | CPP magneto-resistive effect device utilizing an anti-oxidizing layer as part of the spacer layer in a thin-film magnetic head usable in a head gimbal assembly in a hard disk system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 3 | Active |
| US8085512B2 | CPP-type magnetoresistance effect element having a pair of free layers | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8374060B2 | Thermally-assisted magnetic recording method for writing data on a hard disk medium | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8599652B2 | Thermally-assisted magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing device using the same | Physics | 3 | Active |
| US8149547B2 | Magnetoresistive effect element and thin-film magnetic head with the magnetoresistive effect element | Physics | 3 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.