Patents by Inventor Steven L. Lindblom

Steven L. Lindblom 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).

  • Memory card host connector with retractable shieldless tab
    Patent number: 7151673
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a memory card that includes a device connector conforming to the memory card standard, and a host connector conforming to a host connection standard and comprising a retractable shieldless tab compatible with the host connection standard. The presence of the two connectors adds versatility to the memory card. The host connector facilitates direct coupling of the memory card to a computing device without an adapter or reader. The memory card maintains a form factor of the memory card standard when the shieldless tab is retracted, which allows the memory card to be used similar to a conventional memory card of the memory card standard. In order to fit within the memory card standard form factor, the shieldless tab may be an altered version of a conventional connector interface conforming to the host connection standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignee: Imation corp.
    Inventors: Trung V. Le, Steven L. Lindblom, Robert W. Tapani
  • Magnetic field strength detector
    Patent number: 7068030
    Abstract: A magnetic field strength detector includes a magnetic field sensing element that outputs voltage as a function of magnetic field strength. In some embodiments, the magnetic field sensing element comprises a coil, and voltage is induced across the coil as a function of the magnetic field strength. A magnetic field strength detector also includes an indicator that alters as a function of the voltage output by the magnetic field sensing element when the magnetic field strength exceeds a threshold. The alteration is substantially irreversible and, in some embodiments, visible. The detector may be used to, for example, measure the strength of a magnetic field generated by a degaussing device, or to confirm that a particular medium was exposed to a magnetic field with a strength adequate to degauss the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Imation Corp.
    Inventors: Michael B. Hintz, Richard E. Jewett, Steven L. Lindblom, Stephen J. Rothermel
  • Data storage tape with patterned surface
    Patent number: 7018730
    Abstract: Data storage tape includes a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a recording layer disposed on the first side of the substrate, and a coating disposed on the second side of the substrate. A surface of the coating has a pattern formed therein such that the pattern communicates with at least one of a first edge and a second edge of the data storage tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Imation Corp.
    Inventors: Steven L. Lindblom, C. Thomas Jennings, Larold L. Olson