Inventor · Saratoga, CA, US

Xiaodong Che

24Patents
11h-index
29Co-inventors
75Inventor score

Filing activity: May 6, 1994 → Feb 24, 2022

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7131346B1 Spin stand testing system with fine positioner for head stack assembly Physics 165 Expired
US7180692B1 System and method for calibrating and controlling a fly-height actuator in a magnetic recording disk drive Physics 88 Expired
US5576906A Synchronous detection of concurrent servo bursts for fine head position in disk drive Physics 81 Expired
US5493454A Write precompensation optimization in a PRML channel using a selected PRML signal level Physics 49 Expired
US5691857A Method using matched filters for determining head positioner micro-jog in hard disk drive employing magneto-resistive heads Physics 45 Expired
US5583705A Write precompensation optimization in a PRML channel using a selected PRML signal level Physics 40 Expired
US7215495B1 System and method for determining head-disk contact in a magnetic recording disk drive Physics 31 Expired
US7542227B2 Flying height measurement and control with user data signal Physics 26 Active
US7133241B2 Method and apparatus for optimizing record quality with varying track and linear density by allowing overlapping data tracks Physics 24 Expired
US5546253A Digitial output magnetoresistive (DOMR) head and methods associated therewith Physics 15 Expired
US7119537B2 Full track profile derivative method for read and write width measurements of magnetic recording head Physics 14 Expired
US7821736B2 Shaped trailing shield of a perpendicular recording write element Physics 11 Active
US7508628B2 Winged pole and shield structure for reducing stray field in a perpendicular write head Physics 8 Active
US8736996B2 Implementing channel signal processing assist with ECS contact detection Physics 8 Active
US5633770A Digital output magnetoresistive (DOMR) head and methods associated therewith Physics 6 Expired
US7538963B2 System, method, and apparatus for monitoring stray magnetic fields and protecting disk drives therefrom Physics 5 Active
US8120866B2 Method for characterizing a magnetic-recording system for the presence of adjacent-track interference and far-track interference Physics 5 Active
US7365531B2 Magnetic reader recording characterization at slider or bar level Physics 5 Expired
US8116021B2 Synchronized rewriting of data Physics 1 Active
US8405927B2 Apparatus and method for detecting low flying sliders Physics 1 Active
US7227711B2 System, method, and apparatus for in-situ stray magnetic field measurement Physics 1 Expired
US7420759B2 Apparatus and method for internal calibration of normalized playback transfer curve in a hard disk drive Physics 1 Active
US8537496B2 Perpendicular magnetic write head having a trailing wrap-around magnetic shield magnetically biased in a cross track direction Physics 1 Active
US11688427B1 Angled free layer for multi-level read signals Physics 0 Active

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