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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2021
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventor:
Mark Anthony Gubbins, Donegal, IE;
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 11/105 (2006.01); G11B 13/04 (2006.01); G11B 5/00 (2006.01); G11B 5/60 (2006.01); G11B 5/48 (2006.01); G11B 5/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 13/04 (2013.01); G11B 5/4813 (2013.01); G11B 5/4866 (2013.01); G11B 5/54 (2013.01); G11B 5/6088 (2013.01); G11B 11/105 (2013.01); G11B 2005/0021 (2013.01);
Abstract
A disk drive has a recording head slidably coupled to a rail and in magnetic communication with a disk surface. The recording head has an optical power interface and an optical data interface. An optical transceiver is fixably mounted proximate an end of the rail and optically coupled to the optical power interface and/or the optical data interface of the recording head. The coupling between the optical transceiver and the interfaces facilitates writing data to the disk surface and/or reading data from the disk surface via the recording head.