Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Bernard Brown

Jeffrey Bernard Brown 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).

  • Low profile head suspension assembly with load and unload capability
    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
  • Magnetic reinitialization of thin film magnetoresistive reproducing heads at the suspension level of media drive manufacturing
    Patent number: 5783981
    Abstract: The magnetic states of MR reproducing heads are reinitialized during media drive manufacturing by applying initializing magnetic fields to the transducers after they have been manufactured and incorporated into media drive assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samir Elias Abboud, Nickolas Christopher Apuzzo, Jeffrey Bernard Brown, Earl Albert Cunningham, David Malcolm Hannon, Raymond Patrick Mallette, Paul Sheldon Tyler, Steven Harry Voss, Albert John Wallash
  • Magnetic reinitialization of thin film magnetoresistive reproducing heads at the suspension level of media drive manufacturing
    Patent number: 5664319
    Abstract: The magnetic states of MR reproducing heads are reinitialized during media drive manufacturing by applying initializing magnetic fields to the transducers after they have been manufactured and incorporated into media drive assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samir Elias Abboud, Nickolas Christopher Apuzzo, Jeffrey Bernard Brown, Earl Albert Cunningham, David Malcolm Hannon, Raymond Patrick Mallette, Paul Sheldon Tyler, Steven Harry Voss, Albert John Wallash