TK

Thomas E. Karis

HB Hgst Netherlands, B.V.: 11 patents #56 of 972Top 6%
HG HGST: 6 patents #305 of 1,677Top 20%
IBM: 6 patents #16,453 of 70,183Top 25%
WT Western Digital Technologies: 2 patents #1,273 of 3,180Top 45%
HB Hitachi Global Storage Netherlands, B.V.: 1 patents #18 of 32Top 60%
Overall (All Time): #154,374 of 4,157,543Top 4%
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Showing 1–25 of 26 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
10783916 Passivated nitrogenated diamond-like carbon layer and method for passivating it Daniel Bilich, Andrey Ovcharenko, Raj Thangaraj 2020-09-22
9728220 Charge control agent for fluid dynamic bearing motor lubricant 2017-08-08
9368150 Charge control agent for fluid dynamic bearing motor lubricant 2016-06-14
9349407 Data storage medium surface smoothing method and associated apparatus Xing-Cai Guo, Bruno Marchon, Daryl J. Pocker 2016-05-24
9312141 Vapor phase chemical mechanical polishing of magnetic recording disks Bruno Marchon, Bala Krishna Pathem, Franck D. Rose dit Rose, Kurt A. Rubin, Erhard Schreck 2016-04-12
9266258 System, method and apparatus for manufacturing magnetic recording media Clayton P. Henderson, Tsai-Wei Wu, Xing-Cai Guo, Jeffrey S. Lille 2016-02-23
8899957 System, method and apparatus for manufacturing magnetic recording media Clayton P. Henderson, Tsai-Wei Wu, Xing-Cai Guo, Jeffrey S. Lille 2014-12-02
8727832 System, method and apparatus for enhanced cleaning and polishing of magnetic recording disk Xing-Cai Guo, Ferdinand Hendriks, Toshiki Hirano, Bruno Marchon 2014-05-20
8619388 Fluid dynamic bearing with an immiscible fluid barrier Neal Bertram Schirle, Kunihiro Shida 2013-12-31
8607425 Method for lubed tape burnish for producing thin lube media Xing-Cai Guo, Bruno Marchon 2013-12-17
8409660 Systems and methods for processing a magnetic disk Charles A. Brown, John M. Burns, Xing-Cai Guo, Bruno Marchon 2013-04-02
8405929 Inhibiting oxidation of organic contaminants in a hard disk drive (HDD) Sahba Ghaderi, John M. Burns, Charles Hignite, Vedantham Raman, Charles A. Brown 2013-03-26
8262975 Self-releasing resist material for nano-imprint processes Margaret E. Best, Xing-Cai Guo, Dan S. Kercher, Charles Mathew Mate, Tsai-Wei Wu 2012-09-11
8192249 Systems and methods for polishing a magnetic disk Malika D. Carter, Yun-Lin Hsiao, Bruno Marchon, Ullal V. Nayak, Christopher Ramm +1 more 2012-06-05
7998913 Flow modifiers for improved magnetic recording device Ferdinand Hendriks, Kunihiro Shida 2011-08-16
7820601 System and method for improving lubrication in a fluid dynamic bearing Kunihiro Shida 2010-10-26
7535673 Fluid dynamic bearing comprising a lubricating fluid having tolutriazole John M. Burns, Malika D. Carter, Kunihiro Shida, Stanley Wong 2009-05-19
7466514 Control system to regulate the concentration of vapor in a hard disk drive Charles A. Brown, Sharon Lum, Scott McCoy, Run-Han Wang, Herman R. Wendt 2008-12-16
7212376 Disk drive system with hydrodynamic bearing lubricant having charge-control additive comprising dioctyldiphenylamine and/or oligomer thereof John M. Burns, Ta-Chang Fu, Andrew Hanlon, Charles Hignite, Richard Kroeker +1 more 2007-05-01
6643093 Magnetic recording device with improved reliability Charles A. Brown, Richard Anthony DiPietro, Herman R. Wendt, Run-Han Wang 2003-11-04
6194360 Magnetic recording device Holavanahally Seshachar Nagaraj 2001-02-27
5940247 Magnetic recording device with spindle motor lubricant of specified amine and carbamate concentrations/ratios Holavanahally Seshachar Nagaraj 1999-08-17
5886854 Conductive lubricant for magnetic disk drives Arthur F. Diaz, Robert D. Johnson, Holavanahally Seshachar Nagaraj, My Thanh Nguyen 1999-03-23
5744431 Conductive lubricant for magnetic disk drives Arthur F. Diaz, Robert D. Johnson, Holayanahally S. Nagaral, My Thanh Nguyen 1998-04-28
5641841 Conductive lubricant for magnetic disk drives Arthur F. Diaz, Robert D. Johnson, Holavanahally S. Nagaral, My Thanh Nguyen 1997-06-24