Former Seagate VP Dallas Meyer Develops Patent

Micropositioning recording head
for a magnetic storage device

Dallas W. Meyer, Prior Lake, MN, has developed a patent (8,307,542) for a "micropositioning recording head for a magnetic storage device."

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method of assembling a recording head includes attaching a first segment having a plurality of toroidal coils to a second segment having a plurality of flexure beams to form a wafer assembly. The method also includes attaching the wafer assembly to a slider body such that a cavity portion of the second segment cooperates with a cavity portion in the slider body to form a transducer cavity. The method also includes vacuum attaching the slider body to a reference flat surface. The method also includes positioning a transducer body having a transducer in the transducer cavity using a touch sensor."

The patent application was filed on Dec. 8, 2010 (12/963,415).

Note: Meyer is VP engineering at Miasolé, in solar cells, coming from Seagate where he had the same position. He was responsible for Seagate’s enterprise product line including the 10,000rpm and 15,000rpm Cheetah products.