Patents by Inventor Timothy S. Bass

Timothy S. Bass 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).

  • Spring gasket for grounding circuit card brackets to a slotted panel within a computing system
    Patent number: 6540530
    Abstract: A computing system includes a number of circuit cards fastened by brackets to a slotted panel, which has slots allowing the attachment of external cables to the circuit cards. Electrical grounding between the slotted panel and the brackets is achieved through the use of a conductive gasket extending along an inner surface of the slotted panel. The conductive gasket includes a central web, a number of contact bumps extending from the central web to the slotted panel, and a number of contact bumps extending from the central web to the brackets. Contact bumps thus extending in opposite directions are placed in alternating positions along the central web, so that the central web is deflected as the contact gasket is compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy S. Bass, Dean F. Herring, John Robert Kirksey
  • Removable structures for mounting computer drive devices, pivotable between operating and service positions
    Patent number: 6507487
    Abstract: A computing system includes a frame and a drive mounting structure for mounting one or more drive units within the computing system, with the drive mounting structure being pivotally and removably mounted on the frame to move between an operating position, in which an internal end of a drive unit mounted within the drive mounting structure is held within the computing system, and a service position, in which the internal end of the drive unit extends outward from the computing system. In the service position, access is provided to an open end of the drive mounting structure, into which the drive unit can be installed, to the internal end of the drive unit, for attachment of a cable, and to a side of the drive mounting structure, through which fasteners are driven to mount the drive unit within the drive mounting structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Michael Barina, Timothy S. Bass, Dean Frederick Herring, William Fred Otto, Rodrigo Samper, Susan Pohl Wise
  • Spring gasket for grounding circuit card brackets to a slotted panel within a computing system
    Publication number: 20020064982
    Abstract: A computing system includes a number of circuit cards fastened by brackets to a slotted panel, which has slots allowing the attachment of external cables to the circuit cards. Electrical grounding between the slotted panel and the brackets is achieved through the use of a conductive gasket extending along an inner surface of the slotted panel. The conductive gasket includes a central web, a number of contact bumps extending from the central web to the slotted panel, and a number of contact bumps extending from the central web to the brackets. Contact bumps thus extending in opposite directions are placed in alternating positions along the central web, so that the central web is deflected as the contact gasket is compressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Timothy S. Bass, Dean F. Herring, John Robert Kirksey