Inventor · Oklahoma City, OK, US

Steven S. Eckerd

12Patents
10h-index
15Co-inventors
65Inventor score

Filing activity: Jan 9, 1991 → Jun 19, 2000

Most-cited inventions

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6168459A Flex support and seal apparatus for a disc drive Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 45 Expired
US5907453A Enhanced convective voice coil cooling to improve the operational performance of a disc drive Physics 45 Expired
US5262911A Apparatus and method for mounting transducer heads in a hard disk drive Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 38 Expired
US6129579A Low inductance flex-to-PCB spring connector for a disc drive Electricity 27 Expired
US6270375A Low inductance flex-to-PCB spring connector for a disc drive Electricity 25 Expired
US5644452A Apparatus connecting a flexible circuit to an actuator arm of a disc drive Electricity 20 Expired
US6172844A Double grooved spacer for a disc drive Physics 17 Expired
US5859358A Measuring stiction and friction between the heads and discs of a hard disc drive Physics 17 Expired
US5555619A Method of electrically connecting a transducer to a preamplifier Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 14 Expired
US5140481A Apparatus and method for mounting transducer heads in a hard disk drive General 10 Revoked
US5995325A Transducer signal wire termination Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 3 Expired
US5498840A Transducer signal terminator Electricity 2 Expired

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