Patents by Inventor Jerry W. Hammar

Jerry W. Hammar 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).

  • Disposable LTO cartridge retention spring cleaner tool
    Patent number: 6980398
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for the cleaning of magnetic tape cartridge drive, particularly such as removable data-storage media tapes, and especially an arrangement and method of providing a disposable cartridge retention spring cleaning tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik E. A. Bengds, Kamal E. Dimitri, Jerry W. Hammar, Scott Richard Lockaby, Wayne A. McKinley
  • Housing for information storage medium and apparatus to move same
    Patent number: 6842406
    Abstract: A housing for an information storage medium where at least one surface of that housing includes a plurality of grooves. A locomotion apparatus to move Applicants' housing within an information storage and retrieval system, where that apparatus includes at least one rotatable shaft and at least one drive member disposed on that shaft, where each such drive member has the shape of a truncated cone, and where each such drive member includes a drive surface which includes a plurality of ribs. Applicants' drive member contacts the grooved surface of Applicants' housing such that one or more of the ribs disposed on the drive surface intermeshes with one or more of the grooves in the housing. Rotation of the rotatable shaft in a first direction causes the housing the move in a second direction. Rotation of the rotatable shaft in a third direction causes the housing to move in a fourth direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Bingham, Kamal E. Dimitri, Jerry W. Hammar
  • Disposable LTO cartridge retention spring cleaner tool
    Publication number: 20040194802
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for the cleaning of magnetic tape cartridge drive, particularly such as removable data-storage media tapes, and especially an arrangement and method of providing a disposable cartridge retention spring cleaning tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik E.A. Bengds, Kamal E. Dimitri, Jerry W. Hammar, Scott Richard Lockaby, Wayne A. McKinley
  • Housing for information storage medium and apparatus to move same
    Publication number: 20030223324
    Abstract: A housing for an information storage medium where at least one surface of that housing includes a plurality of grooves. A locomotion apparatus to move Applicants' housing within an information storage and retrieval system, where that apparatus includes at least one rotatable shaft and at least one drive member disposed on that shaft, where each such drive member has the shape of a truncated cone, and where each such drive member includes a drive surface which includes a plurality of ribs. Applicants' drive member contacts the grooved surface of Applicants' housing such that one or more of the ribs disposed on the drive surface intermeshes with one or more of the grooves in the housing. Rotation of the rotatable shaft in a first direction causes the housing the move in a second direction. Rotation of the rotatable shaft in a third direction causes the housing to move in a fourth direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2002
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Applicant: International Business Machiness Corporation
    Inventors: Robert L. Bingham, Kamal E. Dimitri, Jerry W. Hammar
  • Combined optical disk library with internal controller and keyboard
    Patent number: D334556
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. Bolden, Jerry W. Hammar, Richard D. Kusel, Roland Zapfe, Heather L. C. Bolden
  • Optical disk/cartridge library without internal controller
    Patent number: D334919
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 20, 1993
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry W. Hammar, Richard D. Kusel, Roland Zapfe