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Shawn E. Casey — 24 Patents

WTWestern Digital Technologies: 21 patents #127 of 3,180Top 4%
STSeagate Technology: 3 patents #1,874 of 4,722Top 40%
San Jose, CA: #2,646 of 32,062 inventorsTop 9%
California: #23,266 of 386,348 inventorsTop 7%
Overall (All Time): #168,038 of 4,157,543Top 5%
24 Patents All Time
Shawn E. Casey has been granted 24 US patents while listed as an inventor at Western Digital Technologies. The first was granted in 1989 and the most recent in August 2015. Shawn E. Casey ranks #168,038 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.0%). Patent records list Shawn E. Casey in San Jose, CA, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1989 to 2015Bar chart with a peak of 4 patents in 2003.peak 41989: 1 patents19891990: 1 patents1993: 2 patents19931996: 1 patents1998: 3 patents19981999: 1 patents2001: 1 patents20012002: 2 patents2003: 4 patents20032004: 1 patents2005: 1 patents20052006: 1 patents2007: 1 patents20072008: 1 patents2014: 1 patents20142015: 2 patents2015

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–24 of 24 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
9099163 Hard disk drive (HDD) mounting system for shock and vibration David William Niss 2015-08-04 $8,574,000
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 $24,239,000
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 $15,910,000
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 $26,875,000
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 $12,904,000
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 $23,236,000
6934126 Disk drive including a base assembly having a flex-to-board edge connector Keith R. Berding 2005-08-23 $4,329,000
6710980 Disk drive comprising an inertial actuator latch with strip-spring biasing Serge Hauert, Haldun Arin 2004-03-23 $3,356,000
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 $14,029,000
6522504 Head stack assembly and disk drive using a reversed direction head gimbal assembly — 2003-02-18 $26,383,000
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 $13,276,000
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 $29,668,000
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 $9,441,000
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 $20,707,000
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 $10,751,000
5991123 HDD head stack assembly having conductive traces supported by the sides of the actuator arm to extend in planar arrays — 1999-11-23 $8,693,000
5796554 Load beam assembly with separate spring and hinge functions Keith R. Berding 1998-08-18 $8,800,000
5781380 Swing-type actuator assembly having internal conductors Keith R. Berding, Charles B. Mountain 1998-07-14 $9,120,000
5768061 Low-inertia actuator coil for a disk drive Mats Engwall, Martin John McCaslin 1998-06-16 $8,144,000
5570250 Disk drive head disk assembly actuator mount mechanism — 1996-10-29 $22,896,000
5270887 Compact disk drive head disk assembly with conformable tape seal John Robert Edwards, Charles D. Flanigan 1993-12-14 $2,765,000
5224000 Crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator Terence H. West 1993-06-29 $12,848,000
4947274 Resiliently mounted crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator Terence H. West 1990-08-07 $7,061,000
4890176 Crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator Terence H. West 1989-12-26 $10,924,000

Frequent Collaborators

Kamran Oveyssi5 shared
Ken L. Chang3 shared
Terence H. West3 shared
Keith R. Berding3 shared
Raffi Codilian3 shared
Chaw-Wu Tseng3 shared

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