Inventor
Louis J. Shrinkle
Inventor
Leucadia, CA, US
Overview
Patents· 26 as inventor
Public. Assignee & technology derived from the patent record. Each patent links to its LexDana page.
G11Bprimary
G11BInformation storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer62%
B60LPropulsion of electrically-propelled vehicles6%
H02JElectric power networks6%
Y02TClimate change mitigation technologies related to transportation6%
Y10STechnical subjects covered by former uspc cross-reference art collections [xracs] and digests6%
G06FElectric digital data processing3%
H02PControl or regulation of electric motors, electric generators or dynamo-electric converters3%
H03KPulse technique3%
H03LAutomatic control, starting, synchronisation or stabilisation of generators of electronic oscillations or pulses3%
H03MCoding3%
PatentTitleYear
9,694,707'Electric vehicle battery systems with exchangeable parallel electric vehicle battery modules'20179,315,113'Electric vehicle battery systems with exchangeable parallel electric vehicle battery modules'20166,279,108'Programmable microcontroller architecture for disk drive system'20016,239,935'Method and apparatus for starting a hard disk drive having separate landing and data zones'20016,222,692'Apparatus and method for controlling the frequency at which data is written in a disk drive system'20016,151,177'Apparatus for compensating for non-linear characteristics of magnetoresistive heads'20006,107,945'Correlated sampled area detector'20006,061,198'Start/stop architecture for hard disk drive utilizing a magnetoresistive head and zone texture media'20005,930,072'Head-disk assembly for reducing noise coupled into magnetoresistive head preamplifiers'19995,854,720'Low-power hard disk drive system architecture'19985,825,578'Method and apparatus for compensating track position due to written-in runout error in a disc drive'19985,734,522'Disc drive system with slider for reading and writing adjacent portions of a zone textured disc'19985,608,583'System for qualifying the detection of a servo dibit'19975,585,974'Disk drive with PRML read channel calibration using a noise generator'19965,532,889'Winchester drive card including an actuator arm body, actuator arm plates, and a VCM magnet external to a controlled environment'19965,530,600'Signal processing system including adaptive read equalizer with shut off mode for disk drives'19965,521,768'Low-power hard disk drive system architecture'19965,504,790'Digital data phase detector'19965,402,200'Low-power hard disk drive system architecture'19955,381,281'Disk drive system using multiple embedded quadrature servo fields'19955,121,262'Disk drive system employing adaptive read/write channel controls and method of using same'19924,979,056'Disk drive system controller architecture'19904,979,055'Disk drive system controller architecture utilizing embedded real-time diagnostic monitor'19904,876,491'Method and apparatus for brushless DC motor speed control'19894,746,997'Method and apparatus for generating/detecting and address mark'19884,634,896'Method and apparatus for qualifying valid data peaks in a read/write channel'1987Career & activity timeline
Assembled from patent assignee/location history and declaration credentials.
1987–2001Based in Boulder, CO, US· patent location history
1988Patents assigned to MINISCRIBE CORP (1)· patent assignee history
1989–1997Patents assigned to CONNER PERIPHERALS INC (12)· patent assignee history
1996–2017Based in Leucadia, CA, US· patent location history
1996Based in Lucadia, CA, US· patent location history
1998–2000Patents assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (6)· patent assignee history
2001Patents assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (2)· patent assignee history
2016–2017Patents assigned to AMPLE INC (2)· patent assignee history
Inventor activity
Assignee and location history derived from the patent record.
Assignees
| Assignee | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| CONNER PERIPHERALS INC | 12 | 1989–1997 |
| SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY | 6 | 1998–2000 |
| AMPLE INC | 2 | 2016–2017 |
| SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC | 2 | 2001 |
| MINISCRIBE CORP | 1 | 1988 |
Locations
| Location | Patents | Span |
|---|---|---|
| Leucadia, California, US | 14 | 1996–2017 |
| Boulder, CO, US | 11 | 1987–2001 |
| Lucadia, California, US | 1 | 1996 |