Nils E. Larson
26Patents
13h-index
32Co-inventors
81Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 5, 1984 → May 24, 2023
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6151197A | Water slide suspension assembly having a stiffened vertically offset lift tab | Physics | 77 | Expired |
| US6061206A | Head stack assembly for a disk drive having a unitary molded plastic E-block | Physics | 72 | Expired |
| US5781373A | Acoustic noise reduction system for a disk drive | Physics | 69 | Expired |
| US7686555B1 | Wedge based fastener | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 61 | Active |
| US8300352B1 | Disk drive having mounting inserts with cantilevered beams | Physics | 60 | Active |
| US6961212B1 | Shock isolation bearings and travel limit gaps in a spindle motor and disk drive using the same | Physics | 53 | Expired |
| US7633722B1 | Disk drive actuator rotary bearing attachment with cam member | Physics | 52 | Active |
| US7660075B1 | Disk drive including an actuator latch with a pivot ball in a latch post opening and between a VCM top plate and the latch | Physics | 51 | Active |
| US7957102B1 | Disk drive including an actuator latch with a torsionally compliant pusher portion | Physics | 51 | Active |
| US8416522B1 | Disk drive with stepped motor hub | Physics | 50 | Active |
| US8203806B2 | Disk drive having a head loading/unloading ramp that includes a torsionally-compliant member | Physics | 50 | Active |
| US5862019A | Disk drive head actuator fabrication system employing standardized self-aligning modular components | Physics | 36 | Expired |
| US5818667A | Retaining apparatus for a disk drive actuator assembly electrical flex circuit | Physics | 34 | Expired |
| US4645903A | Gas metal arc welding process | Performing Operations; Transporting | 12 | Expired |
| US4857692A | Spray mode gas metal arc welding process | Performing Operations; Transporting | 9 | Expired |
| US10742736B2 | Integrated erasure coding for data storage and transmission | Electricity | 8 | Active |
| US5757588A | Hard disk assembly having a pivot bearing assembly comprising fingers bearing on a shaft | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 6 | Expired |
| US8870507B1 | Wedge based fastener | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 2 | Active |
| US10886821B2 | Haptic actuator including thermally coupled heat spreading layer and related methods | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US10719130B1 | Haptic actuator including overmolded field member and related methods | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US10599600B2 | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switching for multi-host computing system deployments | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US12405667B2 | Electronic device having a shock-resistant haptic engine | Physics | 0 | Active |
| US11178226B2 | Integrated erasure coding for data storage and transmission | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US10877563B2 | Haptic actuator including overmolded field member and related methods | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US11694831B2 | Haptic actuator including outwardly extending terminals from first and second housing shells and related methods | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.