Antek Peripherals Inc.

Antek Peripherals Inc. is a California corporation founded by two engineers with over 65 years of combined experience in the data storage industry.

Patents

1. US Patent #8,111,481 "High capacity disk drive using thin foil disks at elevated rotational speeds". View Patent
2. US Patent #8,049,994 "Air bearing slider-disk interface for single sided recording on a metal foil disk. View Patent
3. US Patent #7,821,739 "Asymmetric opposed air bearings for high speed recording on a metal foil disk". View patent
4. US Patent #6,113,753 "Systems and methods for making a magnetic recording medium on a flexible substrate". View PDF of patent
5. US Patent #6,023,393 "Shaped rail opposed slider air bearing configuration for increased flying height control of magnetic heads at elevated flexible disk speeds". View PDF of patent
6. US Patent #5,968,627 "Metal foil disk for high areal density recording in environments of high mechanical shock". View PDF of patent
7. US Patent #4,974,106 "Non-contact magnetic head assembly for a flexible medium disk drive." View PDF of patent 

Who We Are 

Anil Nigam, President. 

Was a founder and VP of Engineering at SyQuest Technology and developed products that made SyQuest an industry leader with a successful IPO.  He was also  CTO at StorCard Inc. and held senior management positions at Memorex Corporation.  Mr. Nigam earned a MS in Mechanical Design from UC Berkeley and a BTech in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT-Kanpur, India.

James White, VP Technology.  

Is the inventor of the TPC head.  His air bearing designs are licensed by companies including Alps, Applied Magnetics, Digital Equipment, Fuji Electrochemical, Fujitsu, IBM, Mitisumi Electric, MKE, NEC, Quantum, Read-Rite, Seagate Technology, Silmag, Sunward Technology, TDK, Western Digital and Yamaha.  He worked at IBM Corporation in San Jose.  Dr. White earned a PhD from Stanford University and an MS and a BS from Clemson University all in Mechanical Engineering.