Bruce D. Emo
38Patents
18h-index
36Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 25, 1991 → Aug 31, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5237472A | Rigid disk drive with dynamic head loading apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 66 | Expired |
| US6091559A | Variable zone layout and track pitch parameter considerations for information storage disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 52 | Expired |
| US5596458A | Variable zone layout for information storage disk drive | Physics | 50 | Expired |
| US5379171A | Microminiature hard disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 48 | Expired |
| US5408367A | Method of optimizing operation of disk drive | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US8867161B2 | Shingled magnetic recording with variable track spacing | Physics | 36 | Active |
| US9111578B1 | Recording density variation of data tracks | Physics | 35 | Active |
| US5870237A | Method for variable zone layout for information storage disk drive | Physics | 32 | Expired |
| US6005725A | Variable zone layout and track pitch parameter considerations for information storage disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 31 | Expired |
| US6260257A | Method of manufacturing an information storage disk drive with variable zone layout and track pitch parameter considerations | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 28 | Expired |
| US5995330A | Rigid disk drive with dynamic head loading apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 27 | Expired |
| US7423828B2 | Off-track write error recovery | Physics | 26 | Active |
| US7747907B2 | Preventive recovery from adjacent track interference | Physics | 23 | Active |
| US6057987A | Rigid disk drive with dynamic head loading apparatus and method of manufacturing a rigid disk drive with dynamic head loading apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 21 | Expired |
| US6061195A | Variable zone layout and track pitch parameter considerations for information storage disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US6472864B1 | Motion and tilt angle sensor | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5592349A | Microminiature disk drive with clamp having fingers for radially positioning a pair of disks and a spindle motor providing a reduced disk drive height | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 20 | Expired |
| US7023645B1 | Read error recovery method and apparatus | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US5583842A | Method for improving servo field yields | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6032352A | Method of manufacturing rigid disk drive with dynamic head loading apparatus | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 17 | Expired |
| US6310747A | Method for reducing external signal interference with signals in a computer disk storage system | Physics | 17 | Expired |
| US7224548B1 | Determining contact write current in disk drive using position error signal variance | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US6611396B1 | Disk level servo write | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7027251B1 | Method and apparatus to control pole tip protrusion | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US5384677A | Architecture for low-profile disk drive device | Physics | 9 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.