Inventor · Tucson, AZ, US

Reed A. Hancock

68Patents
12h-index
47Co-inventors
84Inventor score

Filing activity: Sep 27, 1990 → Jan 15, 2015

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US5060210A Controlling head seeking speed in disk storage units by limiting displacement of head with respect to its supporting headarm Physics 48 Expired
US8270114B2 Magnetically biased tilting roller bearing tape guidance Physics 47 Active
US8094402B2 Systems and methods for correcting magnetic tape dimensional instability Physics 46 Active
US8054576B2 Skew actuator to servo track zero reference Physics 35 Active
US5134602A Calibrating optical disk recorders to some parameters during disk spin up while deferring calibration of other parameters Physics 19 Expired
US7724466B2 Method and system for servo stripe width detection and compensation Physics 16 Active
US8139312B2 Timing alternative intervals within a timing based servo band Physics 15 Active
US7852599B2 Apparatus, system, and method for tape drive head Physics 15 Active
US8711501B2 Customizing a range of acceptable tape dimensional stability write conditions Physics 14 Active
US8288979B2 Motor control mechanism for electric vehicles Electricity 14 Active
US7529061B2 Tape drive for maintaining lateral position utilizing longitudinally shifted servo pattern with increased sampling rate Physics 12 Active
US6764037B2 Housing for information storage medium and method using same Physics 12 Expired
US7847496B2 Dynamic tape drive calibration Physics 12 Active
US8059362B2 Positioning a coarse actuator of compound actuator tape servo system at midpoint of maximum peaks of lateral tape movement Physics 10 Active
US8027121B2 Positioning coarse servo actuator of tape servo system to allow fine servo actuator to follow tape shift excursions Physics 10 Active
US7920356B2 Method and system for providing a longitudinally shifted servo pattern for increased sampling rate Physics 9 Active
US7649710B2 Moving magnet actuation of tape head Physics 8 Active
US8526134B2 System for fast center calibration of a tape drive for a flangeless tape path Physics 7 Active
US8000052B2 Cartridge refresh and verify Physics 6 Active
US9153280B2 Adjusting tension in a tape media to counter tape dimensional stability (TDS) errors in a tape media Physics 6 Active
US7903368B2 Tape cartridge having tape media with longitudinally shifted servo pattern for increased sampling rate Physics 6 Active
US7929243B2 Setting edge stress signal in magnetic tape data storage cartridge memory in response to servo detection error signals Physics 5 Active
US8981696B2 Dynamic reconfiguration-switching of windings in an electric motor in an electric vehicle Electricity 5 Active
US8159770B2 Apparatus and method to transfer data to and from a sequential information storage medium Physics 4 Active
US8767335B2 Accurate radius and velocity measurement of tape transports Physics 4 Active

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