Inventor · Prior Lake, MN, US

Dallas W. Meyer

62Patents
23h-index
69Co-inventors
91Inventor score

Filing activity: May 18, 1994 → Nov 4, 2014

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5991113A Slider with temperature responsive transducer positioning Physics 229 Expired
US8829330B2 Highly efficient solar arrays Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 63 Active
US6577466B2 Head with active fly height control Physics 56 Expired
US6373660B1 Method and system for providing a permanent shunt for a head gimbal assembly Physics 46 Expired
US5901001A Detection of asperities in recording surface of storage medium Physics 43 Expired
US6366416B1 Glide test head with active fly height control Physics 41 Expired
US7174622B2 Process of making a non-corrosive GMR slider for proximity recording Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US6153281A Magnetic media with permanently defined non-magnetic tracks and servo-patterns Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 39 Expired
US6721142B1 Non-corrosive GMR slider for proximity recording Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Expired
US8563847B2 Illumination agnostic solar panel Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 33 Active
US5764437A Pivoting ramp for dynamic load/unload files Physics 33 Expired
US8212139B2 Thin-film photovoltaic module Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 31 Active
US6212042A Slider having air bearing surface which includes pads for disk storage system Physics 31 Expired
US6229671A Shock pads for a slider for a data storage system Physics 31 Expired
US5991119A Proximity head slider having recessed magnetoresistive read transducer Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US5858474A Method of forming a magnetic media Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 29 Expired
US6859346B1 Integrated bidirectional Recording head micropositioner for magnetic storage devices Physics 29 Expired
US5824387A Magnetic disc with carbon protective layer having regions differing in hardness Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 28 Expired
US6243222A Load/unload method for sliders in a high speed disk drive Physics 27 Expired
US8933320B2 Redundant electrical architecture for photovoltaic modules Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 24 Active
US8284524B2 Integrated recording head with selective movement Physics 24 Active
US6914746B1 High sustained data rate storage devices having microactuator Physics 23 Expired
US8828778B2 Thin-film photovoltaic module Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 23 Active
US9543890B2 Illumination agnostic solar panel Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 19 Active
US5859738A Head positioning in storage system during periods of inactivity Physics 19 Expired

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