Patents by Inventor Kevin James Lonergan

Kevin James Lonergan 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).

  • Storage enclosure with independent storage device drawers
    Patent number: 9456515
    Abstract: A rackmountable storage enclosure includes a chassis. The chassis includes one or more power supplies and a plurality of drawers, each extendable through a front surface of the chassis. Each drawer of the plurality of drawers provides mounting for one or more storage devices. All storage devices in any drawer of the plurality of drawers are inserted or removed through a common side of the drawer. Any storage device may be inserted or removed from any drawer of the plurality of drawers even if the side surfaces of the chassis are each parallel to and in contact with a wall, each of the walls extending forward at least to a fully extended length of any drawer. Electrical failures in any one drawer are prevented from affecting any other drawer of the plurality of drawers. The one or more power supplies provides DC power to the plurality of drawers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Victor Key Pecone, Kevin James Lonergan, Brenden Michael Rust, George Alexander Kalwitz
  • Storage enclosure with independent storage device drawers
    Publication number: 20140204525
    Abstract: A rackmountable storage enclosure includes a chassis. The chassis includes one or more power supplies and a plurality of drawers, each extendable through a front surface of the chassis. Each drawer of the plurality of drawers provides mounting for one or more storage devices. All storage devices in any drawer of the plurality of drawers are inserted or removed through a common side of the drawer. Any storage device may be inserted or removed from any drawer of the plurality of drawers even if the side surfaces of the chassis are each parallel to and in contact with a wall, each of the walls extending forward at least to a fully extended length of any drawer. Electrical failures in any one drawer are prevented from affecting any other drawer of the plurality of drawers. The one or more power supplies provides DC power to the plurality of drawers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Inventors: Victor Key Pecone, Kevin James Lonergan, Brenden Michael Rust, George Alexander Kalwitz