International Business Machines Corporation

Paul Sheldon Tyler

Albert John Wallash

Earl Albert Cunningham

Steven Harry Voss

David Malcolm Hannon

Jeffrey B Brown

Nickolas Christopher Apuzzo

Raymond Patrick Mallette

Samir Elias Abboud

The magnetic states of MR reproducing heads are reinitialized during media drive manufacturing by applying initializing magnetic fields to the transducers after they have been manufactured and incorporated into media drive assemblies.

Magnetic reinitialization of thin film magnetoresistive reproducing

An improved gasket with scavenging capabilities for sealing two relatively stiff mating pieces of an enclosure. The gasket comprises a flexible compressible gasket member shaped to fit between the mating pieces. The gasket member comprises a porous material configured so as to pass only a small amount of ambient atmosphere therethrough. The porous material is infiltrated with a scavenging compound for removing pollutants from the ambient atmosphere passing through the porous material. The gasket has particular application in instrumentality sensitive to pollutants, such as magnetic disc drive devices. Such a disc drive is also disclosed.

Scavenging compound infiltrated gasket

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Rochester, MN, United States of America

Paul Sheldon Tyler