Patents by Inventor Robert Dean Turner

Robert Dean Turner 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).

  • Dual diffusion path filtering
    Patent number: 9865309
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method for enclosing an environment-sensitive component. An enclosure separates an interior environment inside the enclosure from an external environment outside the enclosure. The enclosure has an environmental control system that captures a contaminant from the internal environment to a filter via a first diffusion path, and captures the contaminant from the external environment to the same filter via a different second diffusion path, the diffusion paths providing substantially different flow resistances to fluids carrying the contaminants to the filter via the respective diffusion paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dean Turner, David Andrew Olivero, Yue Ma, Quinn Jay Haddock
  • DUAL DIFFUSION PATH FILTER WITH DIFFERENTIAL FLOW RESISTANCES
    Publication number: 20110109989
    Abstract: An apparatus and associated method for enclosing an environment-sensitive component. An enclosure separates an interior environment inside the enclosure from an external environment outside the enclosure. The enclosure has an environmental control system that captures a contaminant from the internal environment to a filter via a first diffusion path, and captures the contaminant from the external environment to the same filter via a different second diffusion path, the diffusion paths providing substantially different flow resistances to fluids carrying the contaminants to the filter via the respective diffusion paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2009
    Publication date: May 12, 2011
    Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dean Turner, David Andrew Olivero, Yue Ma, Quinn Jay Haddock