Shawn E. Casey
24Patents
20h-index
24Co-inventors
85Inventor score
Filing activity: Jul 18, 1988 → Mar 25, 2014
Most-cited inventions
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US6185074A | Inertial latch having an interposer that prevents the head from leaving the ramp load during a shock event | Physics | 73 | Expired |
| US6934126B1 | Disk drive including a base assembly having a flex-to-board edge connector | Physics | 71 | Expired |
| US5270887A | Compact disk drive head disk assembly with conformable tape seal | Physics | 70 | Expired |
| US6710980B1 | Disk drive comprising an inertial actuator latch with strip-spring biasing | Physics | 58 | Expired |
| US6349464B1 | Method of making a balance-compensated rotary actuator based upon track-follow performance of a rotatable test head stack assembly portion | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 57 | Expired |
| US6462914B1 | Voice coil motor comprising a voice coil wrapped around a rotary voice coil yoke comprising a low reluctance end and a high reluctance end | Physics | 56 | Expired |
| US6519116B1 | Actuator arm assembly having bearing gap formed between bearing outer race and pivot sleeve for mitigating torque ripple on actuator arm in a disk drive | Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating | 55 | Expired |
| US6502300B1 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING A ROTARY ACTUATOR BY MODIFYING WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROTARY ACTUATOR FOR LOCATING AN INSTALLED HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY PORTION CENTER-OF-GRAVITY ALONG A PIVOT AXIS | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 53 | Expired |
| US8705201B2 | Information storage device with a damping insert sheet between a housing bay and a disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 53 | Active |
| US7375929B1 | Actuator including an actuator body with parallel support extensions and coil support tab for supporting a coil and method of making the same | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US7180711B1 | Head stack assembly with an actuator body and flex cable guiding support and method of making the same | Physics | 49 | Expired |
| US7145753B1 | Head stack assembly with insulated wiring extending between actuator coil and actuator main body section disposed in lateral wiring protector extending from actuator body | Physics | 48 | Expired |
| US6571460B1 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BALANCING A ROTARY ACTUATOR BY MODIFYING WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROTARY ACTUATOR FOR LOCATING AN INSTALLED HEAD STACK ASSEMBLY PORTION CENTER-OF-GRAVITY ALONG A PIVOT AXIS | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 47 | Expired |
| US5781380A | Swing-type actuator assembly having internal conductors | Physics | 47 | Expired |
| US4890176A | Crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator | Physics | 41 | Expired |
| US6522504B1 | Head stack assembly and disk drive using a reversed direction head gimbal assembly | Physics | 35 | Expired |
| US5224000A | Crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator | Physics | 24 | Expired |
| US5796554A | Load beam assembly with separate spring and hinge functions | Physics | 23 | Expired |
| US4947274A | Resiliently mounted crash stop and magnetic latch for a voice coil actuator | Physics | 22 | Expired |
| US5991123A | HDD head stack assembly having conductive traces supported by the sides of the actuator arm to extend in planar arrays | Physics | 21 | Expired |
| US5570250A | Disk drive head disk assembly actuator mount mechanism | Physics | 13 | Expired |
| US9099163B1 | Hard disk drive (HDD) mounting system for shock and vibration | Physics | 9 | Active |
| US5768061A | Low-inertia actuator coil for a disk drive | Physics | 7 | Expired |
| US9036295B1 | Information storage device with a damping insert sheet between a housing bay and a disk drive | Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies | 5 | Active |
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Inventor disambiguation is heuristic; counts are objective bibliographic measures.