Patents by Inventor Jon Jacoby

Jon Jacoby 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).

  • Patent number: 11873461
    Abstract: A sulfurized extreme pressure additive and lubricant including the same providing good copper corrosion and seal compatibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Afton Chemical Corporation
    Inventors: David Edwards, LeAnna Hobbs, Magdalena Makowska, Jon Jacoby
  • Patent number: 10916271
    Abstract: An approach to a reduced-head hard disk drive (HDD) includes a load/unload (LUL) ramp subsystem that includes a translatable ramp assembly that includes a biasing member and a magnet coupled thereto, which is magnetically engaged with a guide post to provide a bias force at an interface of a lead screw and the ramp assembly. The bias force acts upon the interface by reducing a gap between outer threads of the lead screw and inner threads of a mating threaded interface structure of the ramp assembly that would otherwise cause lead screw hysteresis without the bias force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Jacoby, David K. Myers, Jon M. Garbarino
  • Patent number: 10803891
    Abstract: An approach to a reduced-head hard disk drive (HDD) involves a load/unload (LUL) ramp subsystem that includes a ramp assembly that includes a translatable lever member and a LUL ramp member coupled thereto, and interconnected elevator interfaces coupled with the ramp by way of a set of flexures. The ramp subsystem is configured such that in response to a sufficient force being applied to the lever by the HSA, a distal end of the ramp is positioned so that an outer perimeter of a recording disk of an HDD is free of a channel at the distal end of the ramp. The subsystem may further include a motor configured to drive rotation of a lead screw to which the ramp assembly is attached, to drive vertical translation of the ramp assembly, thereby providing for loading the vertically-translatable HSA onto and off of each of the disks of a multiple-disk stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Jacoby, David Myers