Codilian; Raffi

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Patent applications and USPTO patent grants for Codilian; Raffi.The latest application filed is for "method of manufacturing and disk drive produced by measuring the read and write widths and varying the track pitch in the servo-writer".

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Codilian; Raffi - Irvine CA
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Codilian; Raffi - San Dimas CA

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Patent Activity

Patent	Date
Adaptively modifying pre-read operations within a rotating media storage device Grant 8,307,156 - Codilian , et al. November 6, 2	2012-11-06
Disk drive maintaining multiple copies of code segments Grant 8,190,575 - Ong , et al. May 29, 2	2012-05-29
Method of fabricating disk drives using a common disk drive base with an attached weight plate, and a disk drive including the same Grant 7,903,369 - Codilian , et al. March 8, 2	2011-03-08
Method of fabricating disk drives using a common disk drive base with an attached weight plate, and a disk drive including the same Grant 7,561,374 - Codilian , et al. July 14, 2	2009-07-14
Disk drive spindle motor having a cavity defined by one of an upper surface of a stator support structure and a lower surface of a stator tooth Grant 7,436,625 - Chiou , et al. October 14, 2	2008-10-14
Disk drive printed circuit board with component-dedicated alignment line indicators including inner and outer line segments Grant 7,381,904 - Codilian June 3, 2	2008-06-03
Disk drive performing multi-level prioritization of entries in a suspect sector list to identify and relocate defective data sectors Grant 7,274,639 - Codilian , et al. September 25, 2	2007-09-25
Method for setting a power operating mode transition interval of a disk drive in a mobile device based on application category Grant 7,120,806 - Codilian , et al. October 10, 2	2006-10-10
Mobile device and disk drive restricted from reading a data storage zone in a mobile environment Grant 7,099,099 - Codilian , et al. August 29, 2	2006-08-29
Disk drive for optimizing write current settings relative to drive operating characteristics and ambient temperature readings Grant 7,095,577 - Codilian , et al. August 22, 2	2006-08-22
Adaptively estimating a read access time to a second track based upon the binned radial position of the second track within a rotating media storage device Grant 7,088,538 - Codilian , et al. August 8, 2	2006-08-08
Disk drive with disks having different disk stiffness, thickness and material combinations Grant 7,064,922 - Alfred , et al. June 20, 2	2006-06-20
Reducing head gain calibration time in a disk drive Grant 7,064,918 - Codilian , et al. June 20, 2	2006-06-20
Disk drive and method for improved disk rotation control Grant 7,050,258 - Codilian May 23, 2	2006-05-23
Method of manufacturing and disk drive produced by measuring the read and write widths and varying the track pitch in the servo-writer Grant 7,035,026 - Codilian , et al. April 25, 2	2006-04-25
Disk drive having guide-vanes Grant 7,031,104 - Butt , et al. April 18, 2	2006-04-18
Acceleration disturbance detection subsystem for use with disk drives Grant 7,023,640 - Codilian , et al. April 4, 2	2006-04-04
Data storage testing apparatus for delivering linear or rotational acceleration Grant 7,013,731 - Szeremeta , et al. March 21, 2	2006-03-21
Disk drive for optimizing write current settings relative to drive operating characteristics and ambient temperature readings Grant 6,995,933 - Codilian , et al. February 7, 2	2006-02-07
Disk drive and disk drive-containing device having selectively controllable spindle motor spin up profiles Grant 6,989,953 - Codilian January 24, 2	2006-01-24
Method for determining repeatable runout cancellation values in a magnetic disk drive using filtering Grant 6,975,480 - Codilian , et al. December 13, 2	2005-12-13
Disk drive employing commutation phase modulation and current modulation of a spindle motor Grant 6,972,539 - Codilian , et al. December 6, 2	2005-12-06
Disk drive having disk drive housing including airflow suppressor portion Grant 6,972,926 - Codilian December 6, 2	2005-12-06
Disk drive employing a modified rotational position optimization algorithm to account for external vibrations Grant 6,968,422 - Codilian , et al. November 22, 2	2005-11-22
Disk drive having first and second seek operating modes for controlling voice coil motor temperature rise Grant 6,967,811 - Codilian , et al. November 22, 2	2005-11-22
Shock event error logging in a disk drive Grant 6,967,804 - Codilian November 22, 2	2005-11-22
Disk drive control system having a servo processing accelerator circuit Grant 6,958,881 - Codilian , et al. October 25, 2	2005-10-25
Disk drive reading servo sectors recorded at a relative offset on multiple disk surfaces to increase the servo sample rate Grant 6,952,322 - Codilian , et al. October 4, 2	2005-10-04
Disk drive having electrically parallel actuator coils for selectively boosting actuator torque Grant 6,947,251 - Oveyssi , et al. September 20, 2	2005-09-20
Reducing effects of rotational vibration in disk drive Grant 6,937,423 - Ngo , et al. August 30, 2	2005-08-30
Reduced bit number wedge identification techniques within a rotating media storage device Grant 6,934,114 - Codilian , et al. August 23, 2	2005-08-23
Back EMF voltage transducer/generator to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in small disk drives Grant 6,930,848 - Codilian , et al. August 16, 2	2005-08-16
Method for adjusting a delay time for opening a servo sector detection window in a disk drive having a spiral track Grant 6,920,004 - Codilian , et al. July 19, 2	2005-07-19
Vibration cancellation in a disk drive by using an acceleration sensor and adaptively adjusting its gain to minimize external acceleration effects Grant 6,914,743 - Narayana , et al. July 5, 2	2005-07-05
Erasing disk surface by direct current applied on a helical trajectory to minimize erase time Grant 6,906,880 - Codilian June 14, 2	2005-06-14
Method of manufacturing and disk drive produced by measuring the read and write widths and varying the track pitch in the servo-writer App 20050117240 - Codilian, Raffi ; et al.	2005-06-02
Methods for reducing costs and increasing throughput in the manufacture of disk drives by categorizing the disk drives based upon measured disk pack imbalance Grant 6,897,393 - Codilian , et al. May 24, 2	2005-05-24
Method for reducing written-in runout during servo track writing of a disk drive Grant 6,894,861 - Codilian , et al. May 17, 2	2005-05-17
Dependently adjusting at least three operating levels of a disk drive by dependently adjusting a plurality of disk drive parameters Grant 6,892,249 - Codilian , et al. May 10, 2	2005-05-10
Method for predictive power management for operating a disk drive in a mobile device to optimize power usage Grant 6,892,313 - Codilian , et al. May 10, 2	2005-05-10
Method of manufacturing and disk drive produced by measuring the read and write widths and varying the track pitch in the servo-writer Grant 6,885,514 - Codilian , et al. April 26, 2	2005-04-26
Method for adaptively allocating data storage tracks in a disk drive to improve seek performance Grant 6,882,496 - Codilian , et al. April 19, 2	2005-04-19
Methods, systems and devices for converting the kinetic energy of a rotating disk drive spindle motor into electrical energy to charge a rechargeable battery Grant 6,865,049 - Codilian , et al. March 8, 2	2005-03-08
Disk drive cover for use with a disk drive to provide for disk shrouding and heat dissipation Grant 6,862,176 - Codilian , et al. March 1, 2	2005-03-01
Repeatable runout determination within a rotating media storage device Grant 6,847,502 - Codilian January 25, 2	2005-01-25
Production line spindle control circuit employing a sinusoidal driver with back EMF control Grant 6,825,622 - Ryan , et al. November 30, 2	2004-11-30
Method for reducing position error signal in a disk drive Grant 6,798,592 - Codilian , et al. September 28, 2	2004-09-28
Method of modifying on-track declaration algorithm of a disk drive based upon detection of external vibration condition Grant 6,795,262 - Codilian , et al. September 21, 2	2004-09-21
Method for allocating disk drive spindle motors based on an operating characteristic Grant 6,792,669 - Codilian September 21, 2	2004-09-21
Method and apparatus for determining operational spindle rotation rate in a disk drive Grant 6,791,782 - Codilian , et al. September 14, 2	2004-09-14
Disk drive with disks having different disk stiffness, thickness and material combinations Grant 6,791,791 - Alfred , et al. September 14, 2	2004-09-14
Method and apparatus for determining track density during a servo-track writing operation Grant 6,788,480 - Codilian , et al. September 7, 2	2004-09-07
Adjusting seek current profile on the fly Grant 6,781,787 - Codilian , et al. August 24, 2	2004-08-24
Method and system for preventing data loss from an off-track write condition in a disk drive by rewriting data buffered from an adjacent track Grant 6,781,780 - Codilian August 24, 2	2004-08-24
Adaptively modifying a read caching algorithm based upon the detection of a vibration state within a rotating media storage device Grant 6,782,449 - Codilian , et al. August 24, 2	2004-08-24
Disk drive having first-written servo wedge marked and method for forming marked servo wedges Grant 6,760,186 - Codilian , et al. July 6, 2	2004-07-06
Method and apparatus for selecting servo track writing speed Grant 6,751,041 - Codilian , et al. June 15, 2	2004-06-15
Servo settling by utilization of a bias torque offset value which depends on the memory of previous seek operations Grant 6,738,220 - Codilian May 18, 2	2004-05-18
Method for seeking in a magnetic disk drive having a spiral track Grant 6,735,041 - Codilian , et al. May 11, 2	2004-05-11
Method for recovering from shock events occurring to a disk drive during data write operations to improve data reliability Grant 6,735,033 - Codilian , et al. May 11, 2	2004-05-11
Disk drive control system and method for determining the temperature of an actuator coil Grant 6,731,450 - Codilian , et al. May 4, 2	2004-05-04
Seek distance dependent variable max VCM seek current to control thermal rise in VCM's Grant 6,724,564 - Codilian , et al. April 20, 2	2004-04-20
Method of manufacturing a disk drive by measuring the read width in the servo-writer to set the write unsafe limit Grant 6,714,372 - Codilian , et al. March 30, 2	2004-03-30
Method and disk drive for shock estimation and write termination control Grant 6,714,371 - Codilian March 30, 2	2004-03-30
Method for reducing an effect of vibration on a disk drive during a track following operation by adjusting an adaptive-filter gain applied to an acceleration sensor signal Grant 6,710,966 - Codilian , et al. March 23, 2	2004-03-23
Spindle motor having stator rim formed of concentric laminate layers Grant 6,707,641 - Oveyssi , et al. March 16, 2	2004-03-16
Disk drive including disk spacer with different side surface patterns Grant 6,707,637 - Codilian , et al. March 16, 2	2004-03-16
Method and apparatus for RRO learning on alternate tracks before and after shipping to cancel RRO in a disk drive Grant 6,707,635 - Codilian , et al. March 16, 2	2004-03-16
Disk drive comprising a coating bonded to a printed circuit board assembly Grant 6,697,217 - Codilian February 24, 2	2004-02-24
Disk drive including disk clamp with non-symmetric engaged fastener holes and fastener torque Grant 6,690,637 - Codilian February 10, 2	2004-02-10
Disk drive having separate motion sensors for base and actuator Grant 6,674,600 - Codilian , et al. January 6, 2	2004-01-06
Mobile device and disk drive restricted from writing a data storage zone in a mobile environment Grant 6,661,597 - Codilian , et al. December 9, 2	2003-12-09
Mobile device and disk drive having a seek current profile responsive to an environment signal Grant 6,657,811 - Codilian December 2, 2	2003-12-02
Mobile device having disk drive including a data storage zone with a data track pitch configured for use in a mobile environment Grant 6,628,473 - Codilian , et al. September 30, 2	2003-09-30
Disk drive with adaptive control path that produces an adaptive control effort based on a characterized deviation between actual and modeled plant response Grant 6,614,615 - Ju , et al. September 2, 2	2003-09-02
Spindle motor having stator rim formed of curved arc segments Grant 6,594,111 - Oveyssi , et al. July 15, 2	2003-07-15
Mobile device comprising a disk storage system protected by a pressure-sensitive detector Grant 6,580,574 - Codilian June 17, 2	2003-06-17
Method for allocating disk drive spindle motors based on an operating characteristic App 20030103285 - Codilian, Raffi	2003-06-05
Method And Apparatus For Balancing A Rotary Actuator By Modifying Weight Distribution Characteristics Of The Rotary Actuator For Locating An Installed Head Stack Assembly Portion Center-of-gravity Along A Pivot Axis Grant 6,571,460 - Casey , et al. June 3, 2	2003-06-03
Method and apparatus for RRO learning before and after shipping to cancel RRO in a disk drive Grant 6,545,835 - Codilian , et al. April 8, 2	2003-04-08
Method And Apparatus For Balancing A Rotary Actuator By Modifying Weight Distribution Characteristics Of The Rotary Actuator For Locating An Installed Head Stack Assembly Portion Center-of-gravity Along A Pivot Axis Grant 6,502,300 - Casey , et al. January 7, 2	2003-01-07
Disk drive employing spindle motor commutation time variation for reducing acoustic noise Grant 6,493,169 - Ferris , et al. December 10, 2	2002-12-10
Method for minimizing adjacent track data loss during a write operation in a disk drive Grant 6,462,896 - Codilian , et al. October 8, 2	2002-10-08
Method of operating a disk drive for writing to an addressable location after detecting that a head is within a safe-to-write window Grant 6,445,524 - Nazarian , et al. September 3, 2	2002-09-03
Temperature monitoring method of a disk drive voice coil motor from a traveled distance Grant 6,369,972 - Codilian , et al. April 9, 2	2002-04-09
Method of making a balance-compensated rotary actuator based upon track-follow performance of a rotatable test head stack assembly portion Grant 6,349,464 - Codilian , et al. February 26, 2	2002-02-26
Disk drive capable of autonomously evaluating and adapting the frequency response of its servo control system Grant 6,204,988 - Codilian , et al. March 20, 2	2001-03-20
Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for subsequently spinning it up Grant 6,198,590 - Codilian , et al. March 6, 2	2001-03-06
Disk drive with staggered calibration bursts that are disposably located in data regions and method of using the same for calibrating a read head Grant 6,198,584 - Codilian , et al. March 6, 2	2001-03-06
Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for spinning it down and subsequently spinning it up Grant 6,104,153 - Codilian , et al. August 15, 2	2000-08-15
Disk drive with calibration bursts that are recorded on a spiral and method of recording the same Grant 6,091,564 - Codilian , et al. July 18, 2	2000-07-18
Non-quadrature servo burst pattern for micro-jogging a magnetoresistive head in a magnetic disk drive Grant 6,014,283 - Codilian , et al. January 11, 2	2000-01-11
Hybrid communication method and apparatus for a three-phase brushless DC motor Grant 5,808,440 - Bennett , et al. September 15, 1	1998-09-15
Method for seek time optimization employing voice-coil motor current saturation level to define an adaptive deceleration profile Grant 5,793,558 - Codilian , et al. August 11, 1	1998-08-11
Disk drive spindle motor start up using an additional motor winding upon startup failure Grant 5,650,886 - Codilian , et al. July 22, 1	1997-07-22
Disk drive employing multi-mode spindle drive system Grant 5,471,353 - Codilian , et al. November 28, 1	1995-11-28