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Scott E. Watson

WT Western Digital Technologies: 19 patents #173 of 3,180Top 6%
Overall (All Time): #209,971 of 4,157,543Top 6%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9147436 Slim form factor disk drive comprising disk drive enclosure having an insular raised region Yau-Shing Lee, Thomas J. Hitchner, David K. Myers 2015-09-29
9019657 Coined VCM tab to limit cover deflection under pinch load Daniel Nguyen, Andre Liem, Jonathan M. Garbarino, Joshua P. Weiher 2015-04-28
8755148 Disk drive with balance plug having longitudinal retainers Joshua B. Howie, Joshua P. Weiher, Matthew L. Brown 2014-06-17
8665555 Disk drive with added external labyrinth path during servo track writing Lionel A. Young, John R. Gustafson, Dana C. Fisher, Brian L. Rappel, Andrew A. Lucas 2014-03-04
D684025 Asymmetrical trowel 2013-06-11
8416534 Disk drive with asymmetric tolerance ring Baekho Heo, Ryan Schmidt 2013-04-09
8369044 Disk drive with balance plug having longitudinal retainers Joshua B. Howie, Joshua P. Weiher, Matthew L. Brown 2013-02-05
8203806 Disk drive having a head loading/unloading ramp that includes a torsionally-compliant member Nils E. Larson, John Robert Edwards, David K. Myers, Lidu Huang 2012-06-19
7957102 Disk drive including an actuator latch with a torsionally compliant pusher portion Lidu Huang, David K. Myers, Nils E. Larson, Qing Zhang, John Robert Edwards 2011-06-07
7715149 Disk drive including an actuator latch with a catch portion and a crash stop portion of lesser material stiffness than the catch portion Michael K. Liebman 2010-05-11
7684155 Disk drive with an actuator latch having a biasing ball at least partially within a seating cavity adjoining a retention bore Lidu Huang, Peter G. Robinson 2010-03-23
7672083 Disk drive with translatable ramp William Wei Yi Yu, Lidu Huang, Perry E. Hall, Kenneth Allen, Lawrence H. Lo +1 more 2010-03-02
7044459 Simplified flexural pivot 2006-05-16
6757132 Disk drive comprising a snap-on disk clamp Peter G. Robinson, Aaron D. Little 2004-06-29
6624980 Disk drive comprising a support member for supporting a flex circuit and having a restraining member for vertically restraining an inertial latch Serge Hauert 2003-09-23
6574073 Disk drive comprising a plastic molded crash stop with embedded magnet for latching an actuator arm Serge Hauert 2003-06-03
6549381 Disk drive having actuator motion damper via histeresis energy loss of low energy magnet placed within magnetic field of a voice coil motor 2003-04-15
6535358 Disk drive comprising a plastic molded crash stop with embedded magnet for latching an actuator arm Serge Hauert 2003-03-18
6344950 Head disk assembly including ramp having pivoting locational features James M. Pausanos 2002-02-05
6151197 Water slide suspension assembly having a stiffened vertically offset lift tab Nils E. Larson, Keith R. Berding 2000-11-21
5654849 Molded swing-type actuator assembly with press-fit pivot and spring-loaded ground conductor elements Payman Hassibi, Mark Hathaway, Stephen A. Misuta 1997-08-05