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Shawn E. Casey

WT Western Digital Technologies: 21 patents #214 of 3,180Top 7%
ST Seagate Technology: 3 patents #1,519 of 4,626Top 35%
Overall (All Time): #174,522 of 4,157,543Top 5%
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Patents All Time

Issued Patents All Time

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDate
9099163 Hard disk drive (HDD) mounting system for shock and vibration David William Niss 2015-08-04
9036295 Information storage device with a damping insert sheet between a housing bay and a disk drive Jifang Tian, Tegan Campbell, Hongqi Li, William Robert Flynn, IV 2015-05-19
8705201 Information storage device with a damping insert sheet between a housing bay and a disk drive Jifang Tian, Tegan Campbell, Hongqi Li, William Robert Flynn, IV 2014-04-22
7375929 Actuator including an actuator body with parallel support extensions and coil support tab for supporting a coil and method of making the same Ken L. Chang, Kamran Oveyssi, Chaw-Wu Tseng 2008-05-20
7180711 Head stack assembly with an actuator body and flex cable guiding support and method of making the same Ken L. Chang, Kamran Oveyssi, Chaw-Wu Tseng 2007-02-20
7145753 Head stack assembly with insulated wiring extending between actuator coil and actuator main body section disposed in lateral wiring protector extending from actuator body Ken L. Chang, Kamran Oveyssi, Chaw-Wu Tseng 2006-12-05
6934126 Disk drive including a base assembly having a flex-to-board edge connector Keith R. Berding 2005-08-23
6710980 Disk drive comprising an inertial actuator latch with strip-spring biasing Serge Hauert, Haldun Arin 2004-03-23
6571460 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING A ROTARY ACTUATOR BY MODIFYING WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROTARY ACTUATOR FOR LOCATING AN INSTALLED HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY PORTION CENTER-OF-GRAVITY ALONG A PIVOT AXIS Raffi Codilian, Roger Davis, Jorge Haro 2003-06-03
6522504 Head stack assembly and disk drive using a reversed direction head gimbal assembly 2003-02-18
6519116 Actuator arm assembly having bearing gap formed between bearing outer race and pivot sleeve for mitigating torque ripple on actuator arm in a disk drive Chen-Chi Lin, Kamran Oveyssi 2003-02-11
6502300 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING A ROTARY ACTUATOR BY MODIFYING WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROTARY ACTUATOR FOR LOCATING AN INSTALLED HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY PORTION CENTER-OF-GRAVITY ALONG A PIVOT AXIS Raffi Codilian, Roger Davis, Jorge Haro 2003-01-07
6462914 Voice coil motor comprising a voice coil wrapped around a rotary voice coil yoke comprising a low reluctance end and a high reluctance end Kamran Oveyssi, Jason T. Weaver, Mitchell Dougherty 2002-10-08
6349464 Method of making a balance-compensated rotary actuator based upon track-follow performance of a rotatable test head stack assembly portion Raffi Codilian 2002-02-26
6185074 Inertial latch having an interposer that prevents the head from leaving the ramp load during a shock event David T. Wang 2001-02-06
5991123 HDD head stack assembly having conductive traces supported by the sides of the actuator arm to extend in planar arrays 1999-11-23
5796554 Load beam assembly with separate spring and hinge functions Keith R. Berding 1998-08-18
5781380 Swing-type actuator assembly having internal conductors Keith R. Berding, Charles B. Mountain 1998-07-14
5768061 Low-inertia actuator coil for a disk drive Mats Engwall, Martin John McCaslin 1998-06-16
5570250 Disk drive head disk assembly actuator mount mechanism 1996-10-29
5270887 Compact disk drive head disk assembly with conformable tape seal John Robert Edwards, Charles D. Flanigan 1993-12-14
5224000 Crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator Terence H. West 1993-06-29
4947274 Resiliently mounted crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator Terence H. West 1990-08-07
4890176 Crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator Terence H. West 1989-12-26