Patents by Inventor E. Paul Lee

E. Paul Lee 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).

  • Separator plate with head load/unload
    Patent number: 7119986
    Abstract: An apparatus provides improved positional control for an access element moveable adjacent a rotatable surface, such as a data transducing head adjacent a data recording surface of a data storage device. A circumferentially extending windage plate is adapted for placement adjacent the rotatable surface. The plate includes an edge surface configured to extend adjacent a movement path of an access element across the rotatable surface. The edge surface supports a ramp structure adapted to receivingly support the access element at a position away from the rotatable surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Alt, E. Paul Lee, Matthew R. Lepore
  • Keyboard identification sequence
    Patent number: 4456972
    Abstract: In combination with a host processor CPU, means are provided to a standard computer terminal keyboard to reconfigure an identity change of the keyboard for another use/uses and to identify its new configuration, status and other vital information to the host CPU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: Honeywell Information Systems Inc.
    Inventors: E. Paul Lee, Frederick H. McCormick, Dennis P. Vietmeier, Neal C. Harrington, Donald R. Clothier