Patents by Inventor Michael Louis Rancour
Michael Louis Rancour 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).
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Patent number: 9715897Abstract: A test deck may be employed as part of a data storage component testing system. A test deck can consist of at least a bottom cover mating to a top cover to define an enclosed testing region configured to house a data storage medium, transducing head, and head suspension. The top cover may have an access port occupied by a door providing access to the enclosed testing region.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Ronald Eldon Anderson
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Patent number: 9715896Abstract: A data storage device testing system may be configured with at least a test slot, a loader assembly, and an exchange assembly. The loader assembly can be positioned to respectively engage and disengage a test deck with the test slot. The exchange assembly may be configured to open an access port portion of the test deck and subsequently replace a tested data storage component housed within the first test deck with an untested data storage component.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Ronald Eldon Anderson
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Publication number: 20160379681Abstract: A data storage device testing system may be configured with at least a test slot, a loader assembly, and an exchange assembly. The loader assembly can be positioned to respectively engage and disengage a test deck with the test slot. The exchange assembly may be configured to open an access port portion of the test deck and subsequently replace a tested data storage component housed within the first test deck with an untested data storage component.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2016Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Ronald Eldon Anderson
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Publication number: 20160358625Abstract: A test deck may be employed as part of a data storage component testing system. A test deck can consist of at least a bottom cover mating to a top cover to define an enclosed testing region configured to house a data storage medium, transducing head, and head suspension. The top cover may have an access port occupied by a door providing access to the enclosed testing region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2016Publication date: December 8, 2016Inventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Ronald Eldon Anderson
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Patent number: 9514781Abstract: A system may utilize at least an enclosed test deck that has an access port door covering an access port. The system can test a data storage component by presenting the enclosed test deck to an exchange assembly before exposing an interior test region of the test deck by engaging the access port door with a tool of the exchange assembly. At least one data storage component may be installed into the interior test region and subsequently the access port is closed by installing the access port door into the access port.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Ronald Eldon Anderson, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Michael Louis Rancour
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Publication number: 20160314813Abstract: A system may utilize at least an enclosed test deck that has an access port door covering an access port. The system can test a data storage component by presenting the enclosed test deck to an exchange assembly before exposing an interior test region of the test deck by engaging the access port door with a tool of the exchange assembly. At least one data storage component may be installed into the interior test region and subsequently the access port is closed by installing the access port door into the access port.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Ronald Eldon Anderson, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Michael Louis Rancour
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Publication number: 20160314815Abstract: A testing system that is capable of testing individual data storage components may have testing, loader, and exchange assemblies with the testing assembly having a plurality of test slots each having long and short axes. The loader assembly can be configured to transport and install a test deck or data storage device from the exchange assembly to a test slot of the plurality of test slots with a long axis of the test deck continuously aligned with the long axis of the test slot while being transported.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2015Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Ronald Eldon Anderson, Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf
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Patent number: 9478250Abstract: A testing system that is capable of testing individual data storage components may have testing, loader, and exchange assemblies with the testing assembly having a plurality of test slots each having long and short axes. The loader assembly can be configured to transport and install a test deck or data storage device from the exchange assembly to a test slot of the plurality of test slots with a long axis of the test deck continuously aligned with the long axis of the test slot while being transported.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Ronald Eldon Anderson, Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf
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Patent number: 9449643Abstract: A test deck may be employed as part of a data storage component testing system. A test deck can consist of at least a bottom cover mating to a top cover to define an enclosed testing region configured to house a data storage medium, transducing head, and head suspension. The top cover may have an access port occupied by a door providing access to the enclosed testing region.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Ronald Eldon Anderson
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Patent number: 9412411Abstract: A data storage device testing system may be configured with at least a test slot, a loader assembly, and an exchange assembly. The loader assembly can be positioned to respectively engage and disengage a test deck with the test slot. The exchange assembly may be configured to open an access port portion of the test deck and subsequently replace a tested data storage component housed within the first test deck with an untested data storage component.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Brett Robert Herdendorf, Ronald Eldon Anderson
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Patent number: 6757135Abstract: The invention is a suspension gimbal-head assembly that includes a magnetic head having a leading edge and a following edge, a suspension gimbal, the magnetic head is mechanically connected to the suspension gimbal at the head leading edge and the head following edge. There is also provided a disk drive that includes a suspension gimbal-head assembly that includes a magnetic head having a leading edge and a following edge, a suspension gimbal, the magnetic head mechanically connected to the suspension gimbal at the head leading edge and the head following edge.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2001Date of Patent: June 29, 2004Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Ralph Kevin Smith, Kevin Jon Schulz
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Publication number: 20020012198Abstract: The invention is a suspension gimbal-head assembly that includes a magnetic head having a leading edge and a following edge, a suspension gimbal, the magnetic head is mechanically connected to the suspension gimbal at the head leading edge and the head following edge. There is also provided a disk drive that includes a suspension gimbal-head assembly that includes a magnetic head having a leading edge and a following edge, a suspension gimbal, the magnetic head mechanically connected to the suspension gimbal at the head leading edge and the head following edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2001Publication date: January 31, 2002Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Michael Louis Rancour, Ralph Kevin Smith, Kevin Jon Schulz