Robert E. Whyte, Jr.
14Patents
7h-index
11Co-inventors
63Inventor score
Filing activity: Sep 19, 1989 → Jan 3, 2017
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US5121270A | Multitransducer head positioning servo for use in a bi-directional magnetic tape system | Physics | 54 | Expired |
| US5012989A | Apparatus and method for tape velocity and tension control in a capstanless magnetic tape transport | Physics | 31 | Expired |
| US6555977B1 | Disk drive motor position detection using mutual inductance zero crossing | Electricity | 30 | Expired |
| US5821717A | Method and circuit for driving a hard disk drive spindle motor | Electricity | 19 | Expired |
| US6208280A | Converting a pulse-width modulation signal to an analog voltage | Electricity | 12 | Expired |
| US6184645A | Voltage mode drive for control circuit for an actuator using sampled back EMF control | Physics | 9 | Expired |
| US7154725B2 | Hard disk drive (HDD) electrical over voltage stress (EOS) systems and methods | Electricity | 8 | Expired |
| US7522368B2 | Differential voice coil motor control | Electricity | 6 | Active |
| US7106567B2 | Hard disk drive (HDD) electrical over voltage stress (EOS) systems and methods | Electricity | 4 | Expired |
| US6892170B1 | Method and apparatus for modeling mass storage disk drive motors | Electricity | 3 | Expired |
| US7652445B2 | On-chip compensation for a fully differential voice coil motor control | Electricity | 2 | Active |
| US9136787B2 | Back EMF monitor for motor control | Electricity | 1 | Active |
| US10211767B2 | Back EMF monitor for motor control | Electricity | 0 | Active |
| US9575473B2 | Back EMF monitor for motor control | Electricity | 0 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.