Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Schones

Thomas A. Schones 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).

  • Enhancements for adhesive attachment of piezoelectric motor elements to a disk drive suspension
    Patent number: 6856075
    Abstract: Adhesive attachment features for bonding piezoelectric motors to a load beam substrate. The attachment features have one or more reliefs under or partially under or adjacent to a piezoelectric transducer to control the flow of adhesive by limiting or influencing adhesive travel or flow and simultaneously preventing excessive adhesive fillet height adjacent the piezoelectric motor while simultaneously providing for improved bond strength between the piezoelectric element and the load beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Galen D. Houk, Thomas A. Schones, Tony S. Peterson
  • Load adjusting machine for magnetic disk drive head gimbal assemblies
    Patent number: 5297413
    Abstract: A computer controlled regram machine for adjusting the loads on head gimbal assemblies to bring the loads within a desired specification window defined by upper and lower window specifications. The regram machine includes a load cell for measuring actual gimbal assembly loads, a mechanical bending mechanism for implementing mechanical adjust procedures to increase and decrease the gimbal assembly loads, and a heat source for implementing light adjust procedures to decrease the gimbal assembly loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1994
    Assignee: Hutchinson Technology Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas A. Schones, Peter Torresani