Inventor · San Jose, CA, US

Yen Fu

26Patents
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18Co-inventors
68Inventor score

Filing activity: Jul 16, 2002 → Jun 13, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7064928B2 Method and apparatus for providing an additional ground pad and electrical connection for grounding a magnetic recording head Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 54 Expired
US7161767B2 Wireless suspension design with ground plane structure Physics 47 Expired
US7391594B2 Apparatus for providing an additional ground pad and electrical connection for grounding a magnetic recording head Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Active
US7701673B2 Gimbal design with solder ball bond pads and trailing edge limiter tab for a recording head Physics 44 Active
US7342750B2 Method for providing electrical crossover in a laminated structure Electricity 44 Expired
US7046473B2 Method and apparatus for active fly height control with heating and electrical charge Physics 30 Expired
US7440219B2 Non-contact measurement of slider fly height by electrostatic force Physics 14 Active
US7679857B2 Non-contact measurement of slider fly height by electrostatic force Physics 13 Active
US7286325B2 Method and apparatus for connecting metal structures on opposing sides of a circuit Physics 11 Expired
US7042670B2 Method for adjusting flying height of magnetic heads using an electrical charge through an electrical pad on the slider Physics 8 Expired
US7701672B2 Suspension with locally stiffened load beam Physics 6 Active
US7085083B2 Method for testing a micro-actuator in a magnetic tester Physics 5 Expired
US7506552B2 Micro torque and micro stiffness measurement device Physics 5 Active
US8054585B2 Gimbal with assymmetric dynamic stiffness Physics 5 Active
US7907368B2 Balanced head gimbal assembly for improved seeking performance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US7684154B2 Suspension gimbal designs with better dynamic performances Physics 4 Active
US7617737B2 Adjustment of pitch and roll static torques in a disk drive head gimbal assembly Physics 4 Active
US8027127B2 Method of reducing slider roll torque by balancing head gimbal assembly for improved seeking performance Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US6989671B2 Detection of slider-disk interference using a dynamic parametric test Physics 3 Expired
US8218269B2 Gimbal mounted slider assembly with ramp limiter transverse bar Physics 2 Active
US7957104B2 Suspension with bi-layer flexure base whose layers have different coefficients of thermal expansion to eliminate thermally induced flying height variations Physics 2 Active
US7433156B2 Flexure for minimizing fly height modulation of near-contact recording sliders in a disk drive Physics 2 Active
US8000061B2 Gimbal mounted slider assembly with transverse bars connecting inner edges of ramp limiter arms Physics 1 Active
US8045295B2 Method and apparatus for providing an additional ground pad and electrical connection for grounding a magnetic recording head Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1 Active
US7885040B2 Suspension with locally strengthened gimbal Physics 1 Active

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