Patents by Inventor Set B. Chau

Set B. Chau 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).

  • Methods for controlling the use of a cleaning cartridge for tape drives
    Patent number: 7099103
    Abstract: In one exemplary aspect of the present invention a method for cleaning a media drive transducer head is provided. The method includes transporting a portion of a cleaning tape over a transducer head under a first set of conditions, the first set of conditions associated with a cleaning process of the transducer head, and transporting the portion of the cleaning tape over the transducer head under a second set of conditions, the second set of conditions associated with a writing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Quantum Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Stewart, Stephen W. Smith, Christopher P. King, Set B. Chau, Lee V. Jaderborg
  • Flexible disk transducer loading and unloading system
    Patent number: 4167766
    Abstract: A flexible magnetic disk storage system wherein the magnetic transducers ride on opposite sides of the diskette. The transducers are arranged with one transducer fixed in position relative thereto. The movable transducer is mounted on a carriage in a flexible manner to allow it to assume a parallel relationship with the fixed transducer and the diskette prior to application of the operating pressure thereto so as to substantially reduce the wear and/or destruction of the diskette.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1979
    Assignee: Ex-Cell-O Corporation
    Inventor: Set B. Chau