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Norman Kermit Frater

IBM: 17 patents #6,502 of 70,183Top 10%
Overall (All Time): #280,361 of 4,157,543Top 7%
17
Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
6112400 Apparatus and method for adhesively connecting wires to a suspension arm in a disk drive assembly Gary Heitkamp, Hsuehmin Li, Diane Sprandel O'Regan, Rudy Vadillo 2000-09-05
6069773 Shock protected high stack density suspension system Thomas Hoffmann, Donald Harold Ingalls, Bradley John Kriehn 2000-05-30
5953180 Multi-mode suspension populated actuator for a disk drive Peter William Kanas 1999-09-14
5930080 Transducer suspension system David Gerson, Gary Heitkamp, Thomas Hoffmann, John Philip Hollowell, Peter William Kanas +2 more 1999-07-27
5870254 Transducer suspension system Erik Baserman, Charles D. Cullom, III, Brad V. Johnson, William Harlow McConnell 1999-02-09
5838518 Disk drive suspension for increasing the arm to disk clearance 1998-11-17
5838517 Shock protected high stack density suspension system Thomas Hoffmann, Donald Harold Ingalls, Bradley John Kriehn 1998-11-17
5815349 Suspension with wire protection which does not impact slider movements 1998-09-29
5808836 Load beam with grooved wire-gluing region Gary Heitkamp, Hsuehmin Li, Diane Sprandel O'Regan, Rudy Vadillo 1998-09-15
5759418 Adhesively attached hard disk head suspension and etching process Oscar J. Ruiz 1998-06-02
5742996 Method of manufacturing a transducer suspension system David Gerson, Gary Heitkamp, Thomas Hoffmann, John Philip Hollowell, Peter William Kanas +2 more 1998-04-28
5717545 Swaging appartus with a tubular boss having axially extending surface irregularities and swaging technique for thin actuator arm assemblies William Woodrow Brooks, Jr., Oscar J. Ruiz 1998-02-10
5680275 Adjustable solder bump spacer for slider-suspension attachment Surya Pattanaik, Oscar J. Ruiz, Wing C. Shum 1997-10-21
5570261 Transducer suspension system Alan P. Giorgi, Oscar J. Ruiz 1996-10-29
5353181 Etched suspension system Alan P. Giorgi 1994-10-04
4479090 Circuitry for measuring magnetic head flying characteristics Stanley S. K. Hoo, William Harlow McConnell 1984-10-23
4443824 Magnetic head arm assembly Gregory G. Gill, Robert B. Watrous 1984-04-17