JD

John C. Dunfield

ST Seagate Technology: 45 patents #75 of 4,626Top 2%
ST Seagate Technologies: 1 patents #14 of 110Top 15%
📍 Santa Cruz, CA: #55 of 1,911 inventorsTop 3%
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Showing 26–46 of 46 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
5598071 Method for starting and commutating a permanent-magnet direct current motor having a single phase winding Gunter Heine, Marcel Jufer, Kamran Oveyssi 1997-01-28
5598048 Integrated passive magnetic bearing system and spindle magnet for use in an axial magnet spindle motor Kamran Oveyssi 1997-01-28
5590003 Hydrodynamic spindle motor having distributed windings Gunter Heine 1996-12-31
5587617 Integrated passive magnetic bearing system and spindle magnet for use in an axial magnet spindle motor Kamran Oveyssi 1996-12-24
5581424 Magnetic crash stop and latch in a disc drive Jeffrey P. Stram, Thomas A. Hickox 1996-12-03
5578882 Passive magnetic bearings for a spindle motor Kamran Oveyssi, Gunter Heine 1996-11-26
5579188 Ironless spindle motor for disc drive Gunter Heine, Kamran Oveyssi, Marcel Jufer 1996-11-26
5569990 Detection of starting motor position in a brushless DC motor 1996-10-29
5561335 Integrated passive magnetic bearing system and spindle permanent magnet for use in a spindle motor Kamran Oveyssi 1996-10-01
5548458 Support flange having electrical contacts to provide electrical continuity upon spindle motor mounting to base Robert M. Pelstring, Klaus Kloeppel, Michael Kenneth Andrews, Clifford Jue 1996-08-20
5545937 Integrated passive magnetic bearing system and spindle permanent magnet for use in a spindle motor Kamran Oveyssi 1996-08-13
5541460 Passive magnetic bearings for a spindle motor Kamran Oveyssi, Gunter Heine 1996-07-30
5524985 Fluid thermal compensation and containment for hydrodynamic bearings 1996-06-11
5485331 High resistivity bearing balls for spindle motor isolation Klaus Kloeppel, Robert M. Pelstring, Donald J. MacLeod, Michael John Raffetto, Frederick Frank Kazmierczak 1996-01-16
5481144 Wire guide and adhesive retaining ring for disc drive spindle motor Steven C. Knoche, Klaus Kloeppel 1996-01-02
5473484 Apparatus for electrically grounding a rotor hub in a disc drive motor Robert M. Pelstring 1995-12-05
5459362 Small form factor actuator for improved functionality and linearity Gunter Heine 1995-10-17
5454724 Floating electrical contact for spindle motor Klaus Kloeppel, Robert M. Pelstring 1995-10-03
5260618 Space optimization voice coil motor for disc drives Gunter Heine 1993-11-09
5254914 Position detection for a brushless DC motor without Hall effect devices using a mutual inductance detection method Gunter Heine 1993-10-19
5028852 Position detection for a brushless DC motor without hall effect devices using a time differential method 1991-07-02