Inventor · Temecula, CA, US

Christopher Dunn

25Patents
11h-index
9Co-inventors
64Inventor score

Filing activity: May 9, 2000 → Nov 9, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6735052B2 Hard disk drive suspension with integral flexible circuit Electricity 56 Expired
US8553364B1 Low impedance, high bandwidth disk drive suspension circuit Electricity 49 Active
US8004798B1 High bandwidth flexure for hard disk drives Physics 45 Active
US6480359B1 Hard disk drive suspension with integral flexible circuit Electricity 43 Expired
US8395866B1 Resilient flying lead and terminus for disk drive suspension Electricity 26 Active
US8085506B1 Disk drive gimbal having a stable pitch static attitude and related method of manufacture Physics 24 Active
US8810972B1 Electrical interconnect from disk drive suspension flexure to PZT motor Physics 22 Active
US9070394B1 Suspension microactuator with wrap-around electrode on inactive constraining layer Physics 22 Active
US7781679B1 Disk drive suspension via formation using a tie layer and product Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Active
US9330699B1 Piezoelectric actuator with wrap-around electrode on inactive constraining layer Physics 17 Active
US10128431B1 Method of manufacturing a multi-layer PZT microactuator using wafer-level processing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 12 Active
US7348045B2 Controlled depth etched dielectric film Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 10 Expired
US8564909B1 Multilayer bond pads for hard disk drive suspensions Physics 9 Active
US8462464B1 High strength flying leads for multi-layer flexure designs Physics 7 Active
US9431041B1 Comb structure for a disk drive suspension piezoelectric microactuator operating in the D33 mode, and method of manufacturing the same Physics 6 Active
US8982512B1 Low impedance, high bandwidth disk drive suspension circuit Electricity 5 Active
US10043541B1 Disk drive head stack assembly having height-controlled suspension circuit tail tack Physics 4 Active
US7829793B2 Additive disk drive suspension manufacturing using tie layers for vias and product thereof Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 4 Active
US8303792B1 High strength electrodeposited suspension conductors Electricity 4 Active
US11588098B2 Method of manufacturing a multi-layer PZT microactuator using wafer-level processing Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Active
US7379271B1 Multilayer gimbal suspension element manufacture with co-etchable layers Physics 3 Active
US9330693B1 Suspension circuit trace employing stacked traces and windowed stainless steel layer Physics 2 Active
US8320083B1 Electrical interconnect with improved corrosion resistance for a disk drive head suspension Physics 2 Active
US11741990B2 Flexure assembly configured to reduce electrical coupling and maintain a high signal bandwidth Physics 1 Active
US8673160B1 Electrical interconnect with improved corrosion resistance for a disk drive head suspension Physics 0 Active

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.