Patents by Inventor Charles Lee Still

Charles Lee Still has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Media drive vibration isolation and attenuation method and apparatus
    Patent number: 7154757
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for isolating and attenuating shock and vibration in a disk module that includes media drives that are mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB). The apparatus includes a single printed circuit board (PCB), media drives that are coupled to the PCB, a first reinforcing rail that is attached to the PCB and to a first side of a first one of the media drives, a second reinforcing rail that is attached to the PCB and to a first side of a second one of the media drives, and a locking mechanism for locking the first and second rails together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2006
    Assignee: Storage Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Grant Pavol, Charles Lee Still, Todd Baxendale, Christopher McArdle
  • Circuit for aligning logical sectors with physical sectors in a disk storage system
    Patent number: 6191712
    Abstract: A circuit manages the conversion of data between a logical sector format and a physical sector format. In a padding mode, the circuit appends a padding value to a data stream in the logical sector format having a logical length to produce a data stream in a physical sector format having a physical length. In an extracting mode, the circuit extracts a data stream in the logical sector format from a data stream in the physical sector format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Lee Still