Patents by Inventor Charles Powell Morris
Charles Powell Morris 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).
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Patent number: 10083721Abstract: A method for reducing susceptibility to vibration for a storage device is provided. The method includes running a performance test to the storage device over a predetermined range of vibration frequencies and determining there is a frequency of concern for the storage device. The method also includes establishing resonant frequencies of the storage device and determining if a resonant frequency of the storage device corresponds to the frequency of concern. If a resonant frequency corresponds to the frequency of concern, then the method includes reducing stiffness of a plurality of mounting members coupled to the storage device and repeating running the performance test, determining there is a frequency of concern, determining a resonant frequency overlaps a frequency of concern, and reducing stiffness of the plurality of mounting members until one of there are no frequencies of concern and a resonant frequency does not correspond to a frequency of concern.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Christopher Ellis Schroeder, Charles Powell Morris, Kevin Lee Van Pelt
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Patent number: 9763350Abstract: A storage enclosure includes a chassis, which includes a plurality of drawers arranged horizontally in the chassis. Each drawer of the plurality of drawers is extendable through a front surface of the chassis and is able to mount one or more side-accessible storage devices. For any drawer of the plurality of drawers bordering a side surface of the chassis, when the drawer is extended all storage devices are inserted to or removed from the drawer through an opposite side of the drawer to the side surface of the chassis.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2013Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Brenden Michael Rust, Charles Powell Morris
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Publication number: 20170092335Abstract: A method for reducing susceptibility to vibration for a storage device is provided. The method includes running a performance test to the storage device over a predetermined range of vibration frequencies and determining there is a frequency of concern for the storage device. The method also includes establishing resonant frequencies of the storage device and determining if a resonant frequency of the storage device corresponds to the frequency of concern. If a resonant frequency corresponds to the frequency of concern, then the method includes reducing stiffness of a plurality of mounting members coupled to the storage device and repeating running the performance test, determining there is a frequency of concern, determining a resonant frequency overlaps a frequency of concern, and reducing stiffness of the plurality of mounting members until one of there are no frequencies of concern and a resonant frequency does not correspond to a frequency of concern.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: March 30, 2017Applicant: DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Christopher Ellis Schroeder, Charles Powell Morris, Kevin Lee Van Pelt
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Patent number: 9558789Abstract: An improved storage device sled is provided. The storage device sled includes first and second portions, each of which includes a threaded fastener, a longitudinal member, and a bezel member. The longitudinal members are configured to couple to mounting holes of a storage device. Each of the bezel members is orthogonal to a longitudinal member. One of the bezel members includes a latching clip and cutouts to receive one or more alignment projections. The other bezel member includes a latching clip receiver, configured to receive and capture the latching clip, and the one or more alignment projections. Each of the longitudinal members includes a hole for the threaded fastener, which retains the longitudinal member to a mounting hole on a side of the storage device. The longitudinal members also include a tapered post, which captures a mounting hole on a side of the storage device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Dot Hill Systems CorporationInventors: Kevin Lee Van Pelt, Charles Powell Morris, Christopher Ellis Schroeder
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Publication number: 20140203696Abstract: A storage enclosure includes a chassis, which includes a plurality of drawers arranged horizontally in the chassis. Each drawer of the plurality of drawers is extendable through a front surface of the chassis and is able to mount one or more side-accessible storage devices. For any drawer of the plurality of drawers bordering a side surface of the chassis, when the drawer is extended all storage devices are inserted to or removed from the drawer through an opposite side of the drawer to the side surface of the chassis.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2013Publication date: July 24, 2014Inventors: Brenden Michael Rust, Charles Powell Morris
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Patent number: 8159779Abstract: A data storage system with a controller that receives shock data from a shock detection sensor and methods utilizing such a controller are provided. The data storage system controller receives information or signals regarding shock events from a shock sensor, enabling the data storage system controller to take remedial action. The particular remedial action taken may be dependent on the severity of the detected shock event. The data storage system controller may receive information regarding shock events from shock sensors provided separately from the data storage system controller, allowing the data storage system controller to take remedial action that is tailored to the locale of a shock event.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: Dot Hill Systems CorporationInventors: Charles Powell Morris, Paul Andrew Ashmore
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Patent number: 8132196Abstract: A data storage system controller having a shock detection sensor and methods utilizing such a controller are provided. The data storage system controller receives information or signals regarding shock events from the associated shock sensor, enabling the data storage system controller to take remedial action. The particular remedial action taken may be dependent on the severity of the detected shock event. The data storage system controller may also receive information regarding shock events from shock sensors provided separately from the data storage system controller, allowing the data storage system controller to take remedial action that is tailored to the locale of a shock event.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2009Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Dot Hill Systems CorporationInventors: Charles Powell Morris, Paul Andrew Ashmore
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Publication number: 20110084659Abstract: A power and communication system for a mobile cart is provided. The system includes a wall unit, which includes a processor and a power circuit. The power circuit receives external power and provides switched AC power to the cart unit when the wall unit is engaged with the cart unit and the processor enables the power circuit. The system also includes a cart unit. The cart unit includes a memory device storing a signature. The memory device is coupled to the processor when the wall unit is engaged with the cart unit. The processor detects continuity when the wall unit is engaged with the cart unit, and in response, the processor reads the signature. The processor enables the power circuit if the signature is a valid signature, and disables the power circuit if the signature is invalid. The switched AC power recharges a rechargeable power source of the mobile cart.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: POWER*OTG INCORPORATEDInventors: Karl Christopher Niemann, Paul Andrew Ashmore, Andrew Rudolph Heyd, Charles Powell Morris, Zbigniew Stanislaw Sobelewski
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Publication number: 20110083445Abstract: A temperature-controlled portable container for carrying an injector is provided. The temperature-controlled portable container includes an outer container and an inner container disposed within the outer container. The injector is stored within the inner container, and the inner container is constructed of a thermally conductive material. The temperature-controlled portable container also includes a temperature control device, which maintains an inner container temperature above a first predetermined temperature and below a second predetermined temperature, where the second predetermined temperature is higher than the first predetermined temperature. The temperature-controlled portable container also includes a processor subsystem and a portable power source. The portable power source is coupled to the temperature control device and the processor subsystem, and provides power to the temperature control device and the processor subsystem.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: POWER*OTG INCORPORATEDInventors: Andrew Rudolph Heyd, Zbigniew Stanislaw Sobelewski, Paul Andrew Ashmore, Charles Powell Morris
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Publication number: 20100321818Abstract: A data storage system with a controller that receives shock data from a shock detection sensor and methods utilizing such a controller are provided. The data storage system controller receives information or signals regarding shock events from a shock sensor, enabling the data storage system controller to take remedial action. The particular remedial action taken may be dependent on the severity of the detected shock event. The data storage system controller may receive information regarding shock events from shock sensors provided separately from the data storage system controller, allowing the data storage system controller to take remedial action that is tailored to the locale of a shock event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Charles Powell Morris, Paul Andrew Ashmore
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Publication number: 20100322053Abstract: A data storage system controller having a shock detection sensor and methods utilizing such a controller are provided. The data storage system controller receives information or signals regarding shock events from the associated shock sensor, enabling the data storage system controller to take remedial action. The particular remedial action taken may be dependent on the severity of the detected shock event. The data storage system controller may also receive information regarding shock events from shock sensors provided separately from the data storage system controller, allowing the data storage system controller to take remedial action that is tailored to the locale of a shock event.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2009Publication date: December 23, 2010Applicant: DOT HILL SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Charles Powell Morris, Paul Andrew Ashmore