Patents by Inventor Theodore Ernst Bruning

Theodore Ernst Bruning 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).

  • Energy absorbing viscoelastic spacer for reducing vibration to disk drives
    Patent number: 6134113
    Abstract: The viscoelastic spacer is made of a layer of viscoelastic material and a layer of wear-resistant, low coefficient of friction material which together form a unitary structure for damping vibration. Spacers are placed at the top and bottom of a storage module containing a disk drive. Upon slidable insertion of the storage module into an enclosure, features on the inner surface of the enclosure engage with the spacer in a way which subjects the spacer to both compression and shear forces generated by vibration of the disk drive and of other vibration sources in the environment of the storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Inventors: Richard E. Mills, Ewaryst Z. Polch, Nanjappa Bakthavachalam, Theodore Ernst Bruning