Brian A. Trumbo
33Patents
17h-index
50Co-inventors
84Inventor score
Filing activity: May 18, 1990 → Jun 15, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6327139A | Electrical equipment rack having cable management arms with flexible linkage | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 109 | Expired |
| US5136465A | Personal computer with tandem air flow dual fans and baffle directed air cooling | Physics | 69 | Expired |
| US6269001A | System for enhanced cooling and latching of pluggable electronic component | Electricity | 51 | Expired |
| US5191544A | Personal computer enclosure with shielding | Physics | 51 | Expired |
| US6201692A | Disk drive enclosure optimized for mixed slim and half high drive size | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US5180891A | Digitizer tablet with internally stored wireless stylus | Physics | 44 | Expired |
| USD484508S1 | Server blade enclosure base | General | 43 | Expired |
| US8727138B2 | Toolless rail enabling simplified installation and removal | Electricity | 37 | Active |
| US6956745B2 | Handling system for use with a blade in a blade server system | Electricity | 37 | Expired |
| US6771499B2 | Server blade chassis with airflow bypass damper engaging upon blade removal | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6891727B2 | Apparatus and system to mount a device to a rack | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US6182173A | Hot plug adapters using optical switches | Electricity | 33 | Expired |
| US8023263B2 | Latch for securing a hardware component into a component bay | Physics | 30 | Active |
| US6688965B1 | Invertible back flow damper for an air moving device | Electricity | 27 | Expired |
| US7782606B2 | Hard disk drive carrier latch apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Active |
| US6819567B2 | Apparatus and system for functional expansion of a blade | Electricity | 24 | Expired |
| USD493152S1 | Server blade chassis midplane printed circuit board with cover | General | 20 | Expired |
| USD481393S1 | Server module for a computer system | General | 17 | Expired |
| US5420760A | Microcomputer enclosure with interrupted wedge locking arrangement and shielding liner | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 13 | Expired |
| USD331396S | Shield for electromagnetic radiation for personal computer | General | 12 | Expired |
| US7881052B2 | Compact HDD carrier mechanism featuring self actuating EMC springs to prevent HDD component shorting | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 11 | Active |
| USD360409S | Computer housing | General | 9 | Expired |
| US7247089B2 | Automatic recirculation airflow damper | Electricity | 7 | Expired |
| US8724330B1 | Variable latch to position a sub-chassis within a chassis | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Active |
| US8988877B2 | Automatic coupling of independent cooling regions during fan maintenance | Electricity | 4 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.