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Timothy C. O'Sullivan

IBM: 12 patents #9,222 of 70,183Top 15%
HGHGST: 2 patents #1,032 of 1,677Top 65%
San Jose, CA: #4,639 of 32,062 inventorsTop 15%
California: #43,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 15%
Overall (All Time): #355,798 of 4,157,543Top 9%
14 Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–14 of 14 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
7029590 Self-limiting wear contact pad slider and method for making the same Pantelis Alexopoulos, Lee K. Dorius, Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Gurinder Singh 2006-04-18
6714382 Self-limiting wear contact pad slider and method for making the same Pantelis Alexopoulos, Lee K. Dorius, Francis Chee-Shuen Lee, Gurinder Singh 2004-03-30
6011239 Laser apparatus and method adjusting the gram load, static attitude and flying height in a head suspension assembly Gurinder Singh, Satya Prakash Arya, Douglas J. Krajnovich, Pantelis Alexopoulos, Chih-Kung Lee 2000-01-04
5796550 Method and apparatus for providing diverging rail edge geometry for air bearing slider Laurence S. Samuelson, Howell B. Schwartz 1998-08-18
5712463 Laser apparatus and method for adjusting the gram load static attitude and flying height of a slider in a head suspension assembly Gurinder Singh, Satya Prakash Arya, Douglas J. Krajnovich, Pantelis Alexopoulos, Chih-Kung Lee 1998-01-27
5689057 Calibration disk with disk bumps for calibrating PZT sliders Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Ullal V. Nayak +2 more 1997-11-18
5631408 Method of making disk bumps with laser pulses Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Ullal V. Nayak +2 more 1997-05-20
5581021 Method and apparatus for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Ullal V. Nayak 1996-12-03
5528922 Method of making disk bumps with laser pulses for calibrating PZT sliders Peter Michael Baumgart, Karl A. Flechsig, Michael F. Lee, Wing P. Leung, Ullal V. Nayak +2 more 1996-06-25
5521772 Disk drive with accerleration rate sensing Chih-Kung Lee, Archibald C. Munce, Jr. 1996-05-28
5450747 Method for optimizing piezoelectric surface asperity detection sensor Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Ullal V. Nayak 1995-09-19
5423207 Advanced PZT glide head design and implementation for a small slider Karl A. Flechsig, Chih-Kung Lee, Sylvia Lee, Michael Lee McGhee, Ullal V. Nayak +1 more 1995-06-13
5345353 Step projection air bearing slider with improved stiction performance and wear resistance Matthias C. Krantz, Vlad Novotny, Andrew Ching Tam 1994-09-06
5267104 Liquid-bearing data recording disk file with transducer carrier having rear ski pad at the head-disk interface Thomas R. Albrecht, Moris Dovek, John S. Foster, Andrew M. Homola 1993-11-30