Inventor · Del Mar, CA, US

James U. Lemke

61Patents
16h-index
41Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 10, 1974 → Jul 26, 2018

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US7861679B2 Cylinder and piston assemblies for opposed piston engines Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 76 Active
US4339775A Fast frame rate augmentation Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 60 Expired
US4669011A Slider assembly with dynamically positionable transducer Physics 58 Expired
US6188535A Arcuate scanning tape drive with a servo mechanism responsive to servo patterns in arcuate tracks on a moving tape Physics 44 Expired
US4193098A Segmented video playback apparatus with ancillary recording medium Electricity 38 Expired
US4388659A Tape recorder apparatus capable of playing back selected information while recording other information Physics 36 Expired
US5526204A Low drag liquid bearing recording head Physics 33 Expired
US7360511B2 Opposed piston engine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 33 Expired
US7156056B2 Two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 29 Expired
US7640910B2 Opposed piston internal-combustion engine with hypocycloidal drive and generator apparatus Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 27 Active
US5193046A Information recording apparatus with a liquid bearing Physics 24 Expired
US5097368A Information recording apparatus with a non-Newtonian liquid bearing Physics 23 Expired
US4287539A Segmented video recording with segment identification codes Electricity 20 Expired
US5317463A Information recording apparatus with a liquid bearing Physics 18 Expired
US7784436B2 Two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 17 Active
US7270108B2 Opposed piston, homogeneous charge pilot ignition engine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 17 Expired
US4524390A Imaging apparatus Electricity 15 Expired
US5646806A Edge tensioning sloping tape guide for arcuately scanning tape drive Physics 14 Expired
US8539918B2 Multi-cylinder opposed piston engines Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 13 Active
US3931638A Apparatus for modifying the time base of signals Electricity 13 Expired
US3962725A Magnetic-tape cartridge-loaded portable video camera using prerecorded timing signals to control the video time base Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 13 Expired
US5488521A Information recording apparatus with a non-newtonian liquid bearing Physics 12 Expired
US7549401B2 Two-cycle, opposed-piston internal combustion engine Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 11 Expired
US7591235B2 Opposed piston engine with piston compliance Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating 9 Active
US4322763A Magnetic head having a controllable high-permeability tunnel within a low-permeability sleeve Physics 8 Expired

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