Patents by Inventor James W. White

James W. White 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: 20210379443
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a protective cover for exercise equipment. The cover is of two ply construction and is comprised of an upper layer manufactured from a soft, absorbent fabric material such as terrycloth, and a bottom layer which is manufactured from a water-resistant material such as nylon fabric. The cover is easily secured to the corners of a weightlifting bench or similar surface, with nylon drawstrings, elastic cords, hook-and-loop fasteners, or some similar type of fastener. Preferably, the upper layer is removable for laundering purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: James W White III
    Inventor: James W White, III
  • Patent number: 6023393
    Abstract: The invention provides an exemplary slider arrangement for supporting read and/or write elements in operative relation to a first and a second side of a flexible moving recording medium. The slider arrangement comprises a first slider having leading edge, a trailing edge and a longitudinal axis therebetween. The first slider comprises a first longitudinal rail and a second longitudinal rail. The first and second longitudinal rails each have a face positioned toward the first side of the recording medium. A second slider is provided having an leading edge, a trailing edge and a longitudinal axis therebetween. The second slider comprises a third longitudinal rail and a fourth longitudinal rail which each have a face positioned toward the second side of the recording medium. The first and second sliders are mounted generally opposite each other with the first rail being generally opposite the third rail and the second rail being generally opposite the fourth rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2000
    Assignee: Antek Peripherals, Inc.
    Inventor: James W. White
  • Patent number: 5968627
    Abstract: The invention provides exemplary magnetic recording media, and in particular, flexible metal foil disks, read/write systems having such disks, and methods for making such disks. In one exemplary embodiment, a recording medium is provided which comprises a metallic substrate and at least one sputter deposited film of magnetic material on the substrate. The recording medium has a thickness that is less than about 0.010 inch and the substrate occupies at least 80% of the thickness. Further, the sputter deposited film is adapted to record and reproduce high areal densities of digital data. In one embodiment, such a recording medium is included in a read/write system to provide a unique recording interface that can resist mechanical shock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Flextor, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Nigam, James W. White
  • Patent number: 5726831
    Abstract: The invention provides a magnetic head slider with flying height that is uniform over a recording surface and is relatively insensitive to altitude changes when used in a data storage device. In one embodiment, a slider platform carries two or more gas bearing pads in the form of TPC type pads, each having a transverse pressurization contour along at least one side edge of its face, at least one NP type pad provided with a bearing face and a recess which develops a subambient pressure level, and an ambient pressure reservoir separating each TPC type pad from each NP type pad for preventing hydrodynamic interaction between the pads. The ambient pressure reservoir defines a cavity having a depth with respect to the face of each TPC pad sufficient to maintain substantially ambient pressure in the cavity during movement of the recording medium. In another embodiment, the gas bearing pads take the form of a combination of pads with transverse pressurization contours and pads without TPC effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Inventor: James W. White
  • Patent number: 5438097
    Abstract: A crumb-like silicone rubber powder is uniformly dispersed in a polystyrene polymer using conventional equipment, such as a twin screw extruder, to provide a resin having up to a ten fold improvement in impact strength over the unmodified polymer. The novel silicone rubber powder of the invention is prepared by isolating the particles obtained from a polymerization of an unsaturated monomer in the presence of an aqueous emulsion of a hydroxyl-functional polydiorganosiloxane which has been precured using an organotin curing catalyst and a crosslinker which contains unsaturated functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1995
    Inventors: Donald T. Liles, Kenneth M. Lee, David J. Romenesko, James W. White, David L. Murray
  • Patent number: 5404256
    Abstract: The invention provides a magnetic head slider with uniform and controllable flying height through a range of skew angles. According to the invention, a transverse and negative pressure contour (TNP) slider comprises a support structure which carries at least two TPC type pads, each having a transverse pressurization contour along at least one side edge of its face, at least one NP type pad provided with a bearing face and a recess which develops a subambient pressure level, and an ambient pressure reservoir separating each TPC type pad from each NP type pad for preventing hydrodynamic interaction between the pads. The ambient pressure reservoir defines a cavity having a depth with respect to the face of each TPC pad sufficient to maintain substantially ambient pressure in the cavity during movement of the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Inventor: James W. White
  • Patent number: 5159580
    Abstract: A uniquely designed acoustic transducer comprising a stack of piezoceramic elements (other piezoelectric materials may be used) mounted upon a tuned, shaped transmit/receive head made of hardened metal alloy. The ceramic stack is preloaded to the head via a stress bolt. Insulator electrodes used in the ceramic stack are selected to minimize compliance in the stack for maximum efficiency. All the material properties, sizes, weights, etc., as well as the overall transducer design are carefully selected to act in combination to match the impedance of the load (i.e. metal structural framework). The diameter of the tip of the tuned, shaped driving head is sized such that when clamped to a metal framework, the base metal of the material just under the tip is compressed to or slightly beyond its yield point. This eliminates the requirement for surface preparation because any coatings will be displaced under the applied pressure and any surface irregularities will be flattened out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: Ocean Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Andersen, John H. Thompson, James W. White
  • Patent number: 5022470
    Abstract: An autonomous ice penetrator/payload delivery system is provided which, when once launched from its parent vehicle will, upon reaching the surface of the ice automatically right itself to proper orientation with respect to the ice surface for penetration. A modified solid propellant rocket engine is used as the heat source to penetrate the ice rapidly and automatically is ignited upon the ice pentrator/payload containment vessel attaining proper orientation with its longitudinal axis substantially normal to the ice surface. The hot gasses of combustion produced by the modified rocket engine impinge upon the ice thereby melting it. As the ice is melted and penetrated, the penetrator/payload containment vessel will follow the receding ice surface either by gravity, or by motive forces provided by the modified rocket engine, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 11, 1991
    Assignee: Ocean Systems Research, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Andersen, James W. White
  • Patent number: 4974106
    Abstract: Opposed magnetic head sliders 22, 24 for dual sided recording on a flexible disk 26 include one or more slots 32 provided longitudinally in one of the opposed rails in order to allow the slotted rail 28 to fly and reduce flying height relative to a flexible disk 26 operating at an elevated rotational speed. The sliders additionally have a diagonally blended contour 96 for urging contaminants away from the film interface between the head sliders 22, 24 and the flexible disk 26.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1990
    Inventors: James W. White, Anil K. Nigam
  • Patent number: 4870519
    Abstract: A slider assembly for flying a magnetic head at very low clearances on a fluid film over a moving recording medium. This improved slider assembly provides stability and uniformity of flying height and increased damping characteristics when the slider assembly is subjected to dynamic forces. The slider assembly has, in most embodiments, a pair of rails each having a tapered forward end to provide a converging inlet to achieve the fluid film. Most of the static load is carried by the flat surface of the rails rearward from that tapered forward end. Each rail of the slider assembly has at least one longitudinal transverse pressurization contour (TPC) along corresponding edges of the rails to provide this stability of flying height. When only one TPC per rail is used, the particular edge chosen for the TPC depends upon the disk size and skew angle distribution over the recording zone. The TPC's can be of step construction, a linear taper or a convex configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Inventor: James W. White
  • Patent number: 4843137
    Abstract: Polysilanes having higher molecular weight are prepared in a higher yield by reacting diorganodihalosilanes with an alkali metal at a temperature of at least 150.degree. C. in a medium which comprises a solvent in which the diorganodihalosilane is soluble. Preferred solvents comprise siloxanes, particularly cyclic dimethylsiloxanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Dow Corning, Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard G. Taylor, James W. White
  • Patent number: 4673996
    Abstract: A slider head assembly for flying a magnetic head at very low clearances on a fluid film over a moving recording media. This improved slider head assembly has at least one air bearing surface that flies above the recording medium due to pressurization of air under that bearing surface as the recording medium is rotated. The air bearing surface is provided with a transverse pressurization contour (TPC) along each side edge of the bearing surface such that any air flow from the side of the slider assembly, due to skew angle operation and/or access velocity, produces pressurization adjacent to one side edge and expansion adjacent to the other side edge of each air bearing surface. The pressure distribution across each air bearing surface is substantially symmetrical from side to side. This construction makes the slider assembly flying height and roll angle essentially insensitive to skew angle and/or access velocity. One of the embodiments utilizes a TPC having a linear taper of generally less than one degree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1987
    Inventor: James W. White
  • Patent number: 4624676
    Abstract: Novel organosiloxanes containing units of the formula ##STR1## in which Q represents a divalent group composed of carbon and hydrogen, and optionally oxygen or sulphur, and R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group, the organosiloxanes also containing at least two silicon-bonded substituents selected from hydrogen atoms, alkoxy groups and alkoxyalkoxy groups. The organosiloxanes can be applied to textile fibres, optionally in conjunction with crosslinking agents and catalysts, to impart thereto resistance to soiling by oily substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Dow Corning, Ltd.
    Inventors: James W. White, Stephen Westall, Brian J. Griffiths
  • Patent number: 4599438
    Abstract: Novel organosiloxanes containing units of the formula ##STR1## in which Q represents a divalent group composed of carbon and hydrogen, and optionally oxygen or sulphur, and R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group, the organosiloxanes also containing at least two silicon-bonded substituents selected from hydrogen atoms, alkoxy groups and alkoxyalkoxy groups. The organosiloxanes can be applied to textile fibres, optionally in conjunction with crosslinking agents and catalysts, to impart thereto resistance to soiling by oily substances.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1986
    Assignee: Dow Corning, Ltd.
    Inventors: James W. White, Stephen Westall, Brian J. Griffiths
  • Patent number: 4587136
    Abstract: Compositions curable by radiation e.g. UV radiation are disclosed and claimed which comprise an organosiloxane having at least two siloxane units including groups --RSH, an organosiloxane having at least two siloxane units including ethylcyclohexenyl groups, and a photoinitiator. The compositions cure on exposure to UV radiation and may be used to produce on a variety of substrates coatings which are of reduced odor. Also, disclosed and claimed is a method of treating a substrate which comprises applying a coating of such compositions and irradiating the coating. Examples given refer to production of coatings on paper substrates to provide cured coatings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Dow Corning Ltd.
    Inventors: James W. White, Brian J. Griffiths
  • Patent number: 4490416
    Abstract: Organosiloxane-oxyalkylene copolymers in which at least one silicon atom of an organosiloxane unit has attached thereto a group ##STR1## in which X is a divalent hydrocarbon group, R is an alkylene group, n is an integer of at least 2, Z is an organic substituent containing an epoxy group, R' is lower alkyl, vinyl or phenyl, R" is alkyl or alkoxyalkyl and a is 0 or 1, at least 40 percent of the total substituents in the copolymer being methyl.The copolymers are film forming and may be applied to continuous or porous substrates from aqueous or non-aqueous solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1984
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1984
    Assignee: Dow Corning Limited
    Inventors: Stephen Westall, James W. White
  • Patent number: 4356721
    Abstract: Glass lead seal test apparatus in which a multiplicity of microcircuit pages with the leads sealed relative thereto by glass are checked for leakage between the glass seals and the microcircuit package structure and relative to the leads; this is accomplished by providing an apparatus for evacuating a chamber of the microcircuit packages and a chamber of the apparatus, and then injecting helium into the chamber of the apparatus and then utilizing test structure to test leakage around the glass seals if a perfect seal is not present. The device is designed to handle a multiplicity of microcircuit packages during a given test cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1982
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: James W. White, Victor W. Ruwe, Donald R. Davis
  • Patent number: 4348957
    Abstract: A device for altering the after body shape of a missile configuration so as o reduce the ballistic flight drag coefficient after booster burnout and including linear shaped charge cutting device for severing a portion of a nozzle exit cone just aft of a fixed boattail configuration on the outer surface of the missile to allow boundary layer air flow to flow smoothly over the boattail and thereby reduce the base drag on the missile during the coast phase thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1982
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: James W. White, Joseph J. McDermott, deceased
  • Patent number: 4158960
    Abstract: A plurality of fine leak test chambers for fast individual testing of herically plated microelectronic devices. Each microcircuit component, having already been subjected to a controlled environment of 5 percent helium and 95 percent nitrogen and then assembled, is placed in the chambers and sealed therein. The chambers are evacuated and helium flow rate (if present) is measured by a spectrometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1979
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: James W. White, Victor W. Ruwe
  • Patent number: 4154092
    Abstract: A pneumatic gross leak detector for testing micro-electronic packages. The pparatus includes a frame having a vertically movable upper section and a stationary lower section. A chamber is provided with walls which are secured to the upper section for movement therewith. The chamber includes upper, lower and intermediate portions disposed in communication. A test chamber base is secured to the lower stationary section to receive the microelectronic package therein. A first piston is provided in the upper chamber portion for moving the upper frame section downwardly for sealing engagement for the lower chamber portion with the test chamber base. A second piston is provided for compressing air in the lower chamber portion to a predetermined value. A readout device communicates into the test chamber to indicate if compressed air in the lower chamber leaks into the micro-electronic package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1979
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: James W. White, Victor W. Ruwe