John E. Scura
25Patents
14h-index
41Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Nov 25, 1988 → Jan 27, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6583968B1 | Spindle motor hub having equivalent MR read element bias voltage to mitigate potential between disk and MR read element | Physics | 149 | Expired |
| US8339748B2 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator bonded to a flexure | Physics | 94 | Active |
| US8542465B2 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface | Physics | 93 | Active |
| US5793566A | Self securing compliant gasket for a disk drive assembly housing | Physics | 81 | Expired |
| US6698286B1 | Method of balancing a disk pack using spindle motor imbalance and disk drive including a balanced disk pack | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US8665567B2 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator grounded to a flexure | Physics | 58 | Active |
| US6826009B1 | Disk drive including a filter element disposed along a disk surface for filtering disk rotation induced airflow | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US6549376B1 | Gimbal suspension with vibration damper | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US7369345B1 | Mobile hard disk drive free fall detection and protection | Physics | 55 | Active |
| US6980401B1 | Head stack and actuator arm assemblies including a bobbin to stiffen the coil portion of an actuator of a hard disk drive and disk drives including the same | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US6704167B1 | Disk drive including damping member disposed upon latch for damping tang-to-latch impact and mitigating tang-to-latch contact | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US8760814B1 | Disk drive head suspension assembly having a DLC coating between dimple and tongue | Physics | 47 | Active |
| US5366200A | Shock mount assembly | Physics | 42 | Expired |
| US4947093A | Shock resistant winchester disk drive | Physics | 39 | Expired |
| US5982586A | Compact hard disk drive head positioner latch | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7733610B2 | Load/unload ramp for an actuator assembly in a data storage device | Physics | 8 | Active |
| US7839602B2 | Base dam in a data storage system to reduce or eliminate motor leakage | Physics | 6 | Active |
| US8908332B2 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator grounded to a flexure | Physics | 5 | Active |
| US9230580B1 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator grounded to a flexure | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US9564156B1 | Head gimbal assembly having a flexure tail with cover layer standoff islands | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US9099131B1 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US7876532B2 | Low-profile rotary motor with fixed back iron | Physics | 1 | Active |
| US8964328B1 | Shock sensor on an external surface of a disk drive base adjacent a disk drive printed circuit board | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US9472218B2 | Suspension assembly having a microactuator electrically connected to a gold coating on a stainless steel surface | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US7920360B2 | Torsion compensation coil for voice coil motor of disk drive device, and method of making the same | Physics | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.