Peter Crane
49Patents
20h-index
34Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: May 25, 1990 → May 9, 2016
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6053737A | Intelligent flight tutoring system | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 80 | Expired |
| US5062017A | Hour-glass disk head slider | Physics | 76 | Expired |
| US6078473A | Gimbal flexure for use with microactuator | Physics | 76 | Expired |
| US6198606A | Disc drive actuation system having an injection molded magnetic micro-actuator with metal beam inserts and its method of fabrication | Physics | 68 | Expired |
| US6396667B1 | Electromagnetic disc drive microactuator and suspension | Physics | 66 | Expired |
| US5267109A | Air bearing slider with relieved trailing edge | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US6493192B2 | Disc drive with improved head pitch adjustment | Physics | 52 | Expired |
| US5515219A | Simplified self-loading head slider | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US6735055B1 | Microactuator structure with vibration attenuation properties | Physics | 45 | Expired |
| US6700727B1 | Slider and method for actively controlling crown curvature | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5210666A | Self-loading air bearing slider with a relieved leading edge | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US6046884A | Low mass disc drive suspension | Physics | 29 | Expired |
| USD610818S1 | Ottoman with folding top cushion | General | 26 | Expired |
| US6859345B2 | Bending microactuator having a two-piece suspension design | Physics | 26 | Expired |
| US6122149A | Magnetic microactuator and inductive sensor having shaped pole configuration | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 25 | Expired |
| US6414823B1 | Coil-structures for magnetic microactuator | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US6157520A | Disc drive head suspension with gimbal contact feature for ramp load/unload | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5624581A | Process for forming a simplified self-loading head slider | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US5225950A | Gimbal having stiffness properties | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US6549375B1 | Suspension gimbal with reduced pitch stiffness, compliant preloading bridge and unloading limiters | Physics | 20 | Expired |
| US5721650A | Self-loading disc head slider having blunt cross rail | Physics | 19 | Expired |
| US6731465B2 | Monocoque head suspension | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US5550692A | Proximity recording air bearing slider design with waist offset | Physics | 18 | Expired |
| US6680825B1 | In-plane suspension-level bending microactuator for precise head positioning | Physics | 16 | Expired |
| US6798609B1 | Magnetic microactuator with capacitive position sensor | Physics | 16 | Expired |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.