Yen Fu
26Patents
9h-index
18Co-inventors
68Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 16, 2002 → Jun 13, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.