Seagate Assigned Two Patents

Mass Data Storage Device Cartridge Flexible Interconnect

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA has been assigned a patent (8,213,173) developed by four co-inventors for a "mass data storage device cartridge flexible interconnect."

The co-inventors are David Scott Allsup, Windsor, CO, Matthew James Dozier, Loveland, CO, Brent R. Brown, Maple Grove, MN, and Peter R. Janik, Shakopee, MN.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "This disclosure includes a portable data storage device comprising a mass data storage device, a cartridge housing enclosing a mass data storage device, and a flexible interconnect. The flexible interconnect includes an external electrical connector mechanically coupled to the cartridge, an internal electrical connector mechanically and electrically coupled to a data port of the mass data storage device, and a set of flexible electrical conductors electrically coupling the external electrical connector to the internal electrical connector. The flexible electrical conductors are routed within the cartridge such that no portion of the set of flexible electrical conductors lies in a volume defined by the space between the external electrical connector and the internal electrical connector."

The patent application was filed on May 26, 2009 (12/472,187).

Head Slider and HDD Having Same

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA has been assigned a patent (8,213,111) developed by Seung-young Yi, Suwon-si, South Korea, for a "head slider and hard disk drive having the same."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A hard disk drive includes a base member, a disk which is a data storage medium to rotate at a high speed on the base member, and a head stack assembly (HSA) having a head slider including a magnetic head to write data on the disk or to reproduce data recorded on the disc, and an ABS pattern formed on a disk facing surface of the head slider to generate a lifting force, and is rotatably mounted on the base member so that the head slider moves between inner circumferences and outer circumferences of the disk in a floating state over the disc, wherein if a center line of the ABS pattern is an ABS line and a straight line extending in a direction in which an air flow induced due to the high speed rotation of the disk enters the ABS pattern is an air flow line, a crossing angle between the ABS line and the air flow line is reduced as the head slider moves from the outer circumferences to the inner circumferences."

The patent application was filed on June 11, 2008 (12/136,870).