Patents by Inventor Gary C. Griffen

Gary C. Griffen 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).

  • Disk drive including a filter component with coarse and fine sections
    Patent number: 7280311
    Abstract: There is provided a disk drive including a disk drive base, a disk rotatably coupled to the disk drive base, and a spindle motor attached to the disk drive base and configured to support the disk for rotating the disk with respect to the disk drive base. The disk drive further includes a filter component. The filter component includes a filter housing coupled to the disk drive base, and a filter element disposed within the filter housing for filtering disk rotation induced airflow. The filter element includes a coarse section and a fine section. The coarse section has a porosity greater than a porosity of the fine section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jin Hui Ou-Yang, Michael G. Choy, Jen-Tai Lin, Chiao-Ping R. Ku, Lin Yang, Gary C. Griffen