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Herbert E. Thompson — 21 Patents

STSyquest Technology: 13 patents #1 of 34Top 3%
Xerox: 3 patents #3,111 of 8,622Top 40%
IHIo-Mega Holding: 1 patents #177 of 308Top 60%
SISjoberg Industries: 1 patents #4 of 6Top 70%
Los Gatos, CA: #409 of 2,986 inventorsTop 15%
California: #27,449 of 386,348 inventorsTop 8%
Overall (All Time): #201,324 of 4,157,543Top 5%
21 Patents All Time
Herbert E. Thompson has been granted 21 US patents while listed as an inventor at Syquest Technology. The first was granted in 1981 and the most recent in December 2001. Herbert E. Thompson ranks #201,324 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.8%). Patent records list Herbert E. Thompson in Los Gatos, CA, US.

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–21 of 21 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
6333834 Rattle reduction mechanism in a removable cartridge for a disk drive Syed H. Iftikar, Teong-Hoe Kay, Albert J. Guerini 2001-12-25
6049444 Rotatable door and door opening mechanism for a cartridge Syed H. Iftikar, Teong-Hoe Kay, Albert J. Guerini 2000-04-11
5831790 Removable cartridge disk drive with a compact mechanism for engaging the disk cartridge and drive spindle motor Syed H. Iftikar, Teong-Hoe Kay, Albert J. Guerini 1998-11-03
5724216 Removable cartridge which may be mounted to a disk drive spindle motor without relative movement between the motor and a housing of the cartridge Syed H. Iftikar, Albert J. Guerini 1998-03-03 $4,859,000
5699210 Disk drive for receiving a removable cartridge and method of inserting the cartridge Bin-Lun Ho, Albert J. Guerini, Teong-Hoe Kay, Syed H. Iftikar 1997-12-16 $4,707,000
D383452 Removable cartridge disk drive Bin-Lun Ho, Albert J. Guerini, Teong-Hoe Kay 1997-09-09
D363926 Cartridge with a 1.8 inch form factor for a removable cartridge disk drive Syed H. Iftikar, Albert J. Guerini 1995-11-07
5444586 Removable cartridge for a disk drive with a 1.8 inch form factor Syed H. Iftikar, Albert J. Guerini 1995-08-22 $3,540,000
5440436 Removable cartridge disk drive with a 1.8 inch form factor Syed H. Iftikar, Teong-Hoe Kay, Albert J. Guerini 1995-08-08 $3,445,000
D350115 Cartridge with a 1.8 inch form factor for a removable cartridge disk drive Syed H. Iftikar, Albert J. Guerini 1994-08-30
5205318 Recirculation hot water system Donald Massaro 1993-04-27
5166845 Integrated read/write heads, flexure assembly and air-bearing structure on common unitary substrate Duane G. Wallace, Jr., Gilbert D. Springer 1992-11-24 $1,601,000
4965685 Removable cartridge disc drive with radial arm voice coil actuator Donald L. Rolph, Dominic Mercurio, Albert J. Guerini 1990-10-23
4870518 Removable cartridge disc drive with radial arm voice coil actuator Donald L. Rolph, Dominic Mercurio, Albert J. Guerini 1989-09-26
4864452 Removable cartridge with lockable access door Donald L. Rolph, Dominic Mercurio 1989-09-05
4630145 Fine positioning apparatus for floppy disk drive Duane C. Meulners 1986-12-16
4539614 Flexible magnetic disk clamping an injector mechanism 1985-09-03
4528607 Magnetic record/playback head positioning apparatus 1985-07-09
4323938 Rolling pivot for magnetic head 1982-04-06 $16,688,000
4320426 Head assembly for recording on magnetic disc 1982-03-16 $5,218,000
4308564 Head load/unload mechanism for rotating magnetic memories 1981-12-29 $2,449,000