Issue 9-10/2013
Special Issue of ASME-ISPS / JSME-IIP Joint International Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 18-20, June, 2012
Content (54 Articles)
The 4th ASME-ISPS/JSME-IIP joint international conference on micromechatronics for information and precision equipment, Santa Clara, California, USA
Eng Hong Ong, Kenji Fukuzawa, Jen-Yuan Chang
A fast battery charging algorithm for an intelligent PV system with capability of on-line temperature compensation
Paul C.-P. Chao, Wei-Dar Chen, Chun-Wei Cheng
Position error signal generation in hard disk drives based on a field programmable gate array (FPGA)
Shaomin Xiong, David Bogy
Hard-particle-induced physical damage and demagnetization in the head-disk interface
Jia Zhao, Shaomin Xiong, David B. Bogy, Kun Sun, Liang Fang
In-plane detection of scattered light from a minute particle using a resin-based light waveguide incorporated with a microfluidic channel
Toshifumi Ohkubo, Nobuyuki Terada, Yoshikazu Yoshida
A low-power self-biased rail-to-rail preamplifier as a readout circuit for a capacitor-type microphone
Tse-Yi Tu, Paul C. -P. Chao, Yueh-Teng Mai
Design of carriage with two-layer coils for hard disk drive actuator
Kenji Suzuki, Mutsuro Ohta
Feedforward stability control of active slider in sub-nanometer spacing regime
G. Sheng, L. Huang, J.-Y. Chang
Electromagnetic micro energy harvester for human locomotion
Pratik Patel, Mir Behrad Khamesee
Adaptive flying height modulation control of hybrid active slider with thermal and piezoelectric actuators
L. Huang, G. Sheng, J. -Y. Chang
Experimental study of slider dynamics induced by contacts with disk asperities
Wenping Song, Liane Matthes, Andrey Ovcharenko, Bernhard Knigge, Frank E. Talke
A numerical investigation of different touchdown patterns of thermal-flying-height-control sliders
Jinglin Zheng, David B. Bogy
Ultraviolet bonding of perfluoropolyethers to carbon surfaces investigated using quantum chemical methods
Md. Khorshed Alam, Hedong Zhang, Nobuaki Koga, Satoru Iuchi
Numerical investigation of slider dynamics induced by contacts with disk asperities
Wenping Song, Pablo A. Salas, Andrey Ovcharenko, Hao Zheng, Frank E. Talke
Probabilistic analytic center cutting plane method in robust track following control
Mohammadreza Chamanbaz, Venkatakrishnan Venkataramanan, Qing-Guo Wang
Navigation of a robotic capsule endoscope with a novel ultrasound tracking system
Jan D. J. Gumprecht, Tim C. Lueth, Mir Behrad Khamesee
A new hybrid fabrication process for a high sensitivity MEMS microphone
Paul C.-P. Chao, Chun-Yin Tsai, Chi-Wei Chiu, Che-Hung Tsai, Tse-Yi Tu
A self-alignment crowned pulley design for high speed paper media transport systems
Young-Boo Son, Seung Hoon Shin, Sang-Hoon Ji, Yeon-Sun Choi, Ja Choon Koo
Simulation studies of contact sensor for disk defect mapping
Jin Liu, Junguo Xu, Jianhua Li
Performance analysis of an integrated piezoelectric ZnO sensor for detection of head–disk contact
Yanhui Yuan, Hejun Du, Kun Shyong Chow, Mingsheng Zhang, Shengkai Yu, Bo Liu
Modeling laser heated thin film media for heat assisted magnetic recording
Peng Yu, Weidong Zhou, Shengkai Yu, Kyaw Sett Myo
Analysis of the oil injection process in fluid dynamic bearings of the spindle motor of computer hard disk drives
Yeonha Jung, Gunhee Jang, Kyungmoon Jung, Hokyung Jang
Behavior analysis of air bubbles in the oil lubricant of FDBs at low speed operating conditions
Kyungmoon Jung, Jihoon Lee, Yeonha Jung, Hokyung Jang, Gunhee Jang
Head-positioning control system using thermal actuator in hard disk drives
Masaki Odai, Takenori Atsumi, Haruaki Otsuki, Toshihiro Arisaka
Optimal design of fluid dynamic bearings to develop a robust disk-spindle system in a hard disk drive utilizing modal analysis
Jihoon Lee, Gunhee Jang, Kyungmoon Jung
Twyman-Green interferometer using virtual optics for eliminating reference wave
Cheol-Ki Min, Sungbin Jeon, Hyungbae Moon, Kyoung-Su Park, No-Cheol Park, Hyunseok Yang, Young-Pil Park
Tribological characteristics of novel branched perfluoropolyether lubricant films in hard disk drives
Norio Tagawa, Hiroshi Tani
An experimental study on the flow behavior near the read-and-write arm in a hard disk drive model with a shroud opening
Katsuaki Shirai, Lars Büttner, Shinnosuke Obi, Jürgen Czarske
Magnetically induced vibration of a flexible rotating disk-spindle system due to the internal magnetic force arising from the spindle motor of a HDD
Kiyong Park, Sangjin Sung, Gunhee Jang
A position measurement system for precision alignment of roll-to-roll printing and sensitivity analysis of thermal deformation
Youngwon Seo, Yong-Moo Kim, Dongho Oh
Integrated servo-mechanical design of high-performance mechatronics using generalized KYP Lemma
Yan Zhi Tan, Chee Khiang Pang, Fan Hong, Tong Heng Lee
Circuit model for piezoelectric actuator with electrically conductive epoxy
Yanning Liu, Xin Wang, Yi Lu
Design principle of micromechanical probe with an electrostatic actuator for friction force microscopy
Kenji Fukuzawa, Hiroaki Tsuji, Satoshi Hamaoka, Mitsuhiro Shikida, Shintaro Itoh, Hedong Zhang
A novel universal joint with PZT-driven cyclic symmetric stator
Hong-Yi Cheng, Jen-Yuan (James) Chang
Experimental study of lubricant depletion in heat assisted magnetic recording: different lubricants on HAMR media
Xiuying Chen, Yansheng Ma, Bo Liu, Huiqing Xie, Rong Ji
Analysis of contact phenomena between a head stack assembly and disk during operational shock
Seokhwan Kim, Geonyup Lim, No-Cheol Park, Young-Pil Park, Hyun-Chul Lee, Ju-Ho Kim, Kyoung-Su Park
Study on head instability using Flying-QST tester for HDDs
Masaru Furukawa, Junguo Xu, Yukio Kato, Tatsuhiko Wada
Development of a new spindle motor for a hard disk drive
Dae-Kyu Jang, Jung-Hwan Chang
Thermal mechanics of a contact sensor used in hard disk drives
Jianhua Li, Junguo Xu, Jin Liu, Hidekazu Kohira
Design of modified shock isolators for the optical pickup in an ODD by analytical and experimental methods
Wonseok Oh, Seungho Lim, Kyoung-Su Park, No-Cheol Park, Young-Pil Park, Jae-Sung Lee, Han-Baek Lee
Touch-down induced contact and friction forces at the dimple/gimbal interface
Zhengqiang Tang, Pablo A. Salas Mendez, John Hogan, Frank E. Talke
Design of an auto-focusing actuator with a flexure-based compliant mechanism for mobile imaging devices
Choong Kim, Myeong-Gyu Song, YoungJun Kim, No-Cheol Park, Kyoung-Su Park, Young-Pil Park, Kyung Sik Shin, Jeen Gi Kim, Geum Sik Lee
Vision-assisted profile inspection system of inhomogeneous flex circuits in hard disk drives
Ching-Chen Chen, Jen-Yuan Chang
Intelligent diagnosis of structural cracks with optimized sensing network
Shudong Liu, Chunling Du, Jingliang Zhang
Theoretical study of van der Waals dispersion force between macroscopic bodies with a periodic material distribution
Hiroshige Matsuoka, Niki Kitahama, Shigehisa Fukui
Optimizing angular placements of the LEDs in a LCD backlight module for maximizing optical efficiency
Paul C.-P. Chao, Che-Hung Tsai, Jiun-De Li, Wei-Dar Chen
Effect of temperature and helium ratio for performance of thermal flying control in air–helium gas mixture
Kyoung-Su Park, Jonghak Choi, No-Cheol Park, Young-Pil Park
Dynamic flying characteristics of an air bearing slider over a disk with grooves and distribution of material properties
Shigehisa Fukui, Atsusi Oono, Hiroshige Matsuoka
Attenuation of rotating disk vibrations with sector-shaped plates in disk storage devices
Kai-Ming Tsai, Jen-Yuan (James) Chang
Improved design of polymeric composite electrothermal micro-actuator for high track density hard disk drives
J. P. Yang, G. K. Lau, C. P. Tan, N. B. Chong, B. Thubthimthong, L. Gonzaga, Z. M. He