Patents by Inventor Donald John Wanek

Donald John Wanek 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).

  • Publication number: 20120302992
    Abstract: This document discloses, among other things, an air-powered auto-injector device for subcutaneous delivery of a rescue drug. The device is configured for self-administered treatment of anaphylactic shock. Air is compressed by relative movement of a piston and a cylinder and released to subcutaneously drive an hypodermic needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Rochester Area Consulting Engineers (RACE)
    Inventors: William Woodrow Brooks, JR., Donald John Wanek
  • Patent number: 8177758
    Abstract: This document discloses, among other things, an air-powered auto-injector device for subcutaneous delivery of a rescue drug. The device is configured for self-administered treatment of anaphylactic shock. Air is compressed by relative movement of a piston and a cylinder and released to subcutaneously drive an hypodermic needle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Rochester Area Consulting Engineers (RACE)
    Inventors: William Woodrow Brooks, Jr., Donald John Wanek
  • Publication number: 20100262082
    Abstract: This document discloses, among other things, an air-powered auto-injector device for subcutaneous delivery of a rescue drug. The device is configured for self-administered treatment of anaphylactic shock. Air is compressed by relative movement of a piston and a cylinder and released to subcutaneously drive an hypodermic needle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2009
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: Rochester Area Consulting Engineers (RACE)
    Inventors: William Woodrow Brooks, JR., Donald John Wanek
  • Publication number: 20080116643
    Abstract: A game piece includes a substantially triangularly-shaped housing, an impact detection apparatus which generates a signal in response to an impacting blow to the housing, and a signaling apparatus which produces an audio or visual signal in response to the signal produced by the impact detection apparatus. A kit includes a first triangular game piece, a set of stickers sized to fit within the bounds of the triangular game piece, and an instruction set for playing a game with the first triangular game piece. Some kits include a second game piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: May 22, 2008
    Inventors: Gregory A. Miranda, Kurt Randall Knappen, Donald John Wanek, William W. Brooks
  • Patent number: 5986852
    Abstract: A low profile, high capacity, high performance disk drive includes a plurality of disk surfaces mounted in parallel for simultaneous rotation about an axis. Each of a plurality of data transducer heads for reading and/or writing data to the data surfaces is attached to a slider. A stacked arm actuator for moving the data transducer heads in a radial direction across the disk surfaces includes a supporting arm and a suspension load beam attached to the supporting arm. The suspension load beam connects the supporting arm to the slider. The suspension load beam includes a load dimple bearing on the slider and has opposed stiffening flanges extending in a plane adjacent the slider. The actuator includes a stack of 9 head arm suspension assemblies and the stack has a height of 16.634 mm. An interdisk spacing of less than 1.4 mm provides a height dimension of 14.635 for a stack of 8 disks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lowell James Berg, William Woodrow Brooks, Jr., Jerome Thomas Coffey, Daniel Lee Good, Richard Greenberg, Peter Maurice Herman, John Charles Jans, Sr., Kenneth William Meyer, Jerry Lee Neubauer, John Ralph Reidenbach, Steven Harry Voss, Donald John Wanek, Walter Ervin Zahn
  • Patent number: 5875072
    Abstract: A head suspension assembly for use in a disk drive having a load and unload ramp, the head suspension assembly including a load beam, a cover having a load and unload tang, a coating sandwiched between the cover and the load beam, and a head lead wire extending through the coating. In a preferred embodiment, the coating is a visco-elastic thermoplastic adhesive and the cover is a constraining material; whereby the cover is adhered to the load beam and undesired vibrations of the head suspension assembly are dampened. In a method of fabricating the head suspension assembly, the cover is placed over the load beam after the coating is applied and after the head lead wire is strung over the load beam, and then the cover is adhered to the load beam by heating the coating, preferably by placing a heated platen over the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 23, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Woodrow Brooks, Jr., Jeffrey Bernard Brown, Jerome Thomas Coffey, Donald John Wanek
  • Patent number: 5659449
    Abstract: An actuator for a PCMCIA DASD incorporates a tie bridge for stabilizing the support arms of the actuator while at the same time not increasing the largest radial dimension of the actuator drive motor beyond that of the radial dimension for the exterior of the coil. The tie bridge is disposed above, below, or both above and below the coil of the actuator drive motor. This space otherwise unused is now advantageously utilized, while additionally creating benefits in the design and the operation of the DASD. A crash stop and latch surface are incorporated into the structure of one of the support arms supporting the coil in such a way that the forces encountered by the actuator upon forcible engagement with a rigid structure within the DASD housing are absorbed and thereby reduced to values less than critical failure values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: William Woodrow Brooks, Jr., Jerome Thomas Coffey, Donald John Wanek
  • Patent number: 3953890
    Abstract: A machine for writing information on and reading information from a relatively wide magnetic tape including a carousel for receiving a plurality of cartridges holding such tape with the cartridges being disposed with their axes parallel with the axis of rotation of the carousel, a plunger for latching onto a cartridge in the carousel and moving the cartridge out of the carousel into a tape unwinding position, motor mechanism for unwinding the tape in this position and moving it across a bed carrying a rotatable magneitc read/write disk substantially coextensive with the face of the bed on which the tape travels, a takeup spool for receiving the tape passing across the bed and including a swingable arm for causing the tape to start winding on the spool, and a relatively slowly moving mandrel and a pressure roll cooperating with the mandrel for subsequently moving the tape across the bed so that the disk may have a magnetic reading or writing action with respect to the tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1976
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donald John Wanek, Gordon Wilbur Westphal