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| 20080247081 | Flex cable assembly for vibration reduction in HDD applications - A hard disk drive flex cable assembly conveys data between a connector to a host system and a head stack assembly. It comprises a flex cable which in part has a first end for coupling to the connector, and a second end for coupling to the head stack assembly; and a stiffener coupled to the second end. The stiffener comprises an end formed to approximate a J-shape. A filling material is applied to the concave surface of the J-shape, whereby a dynamic response frequency of the flex cable assembly is moved away from a dynamic response frequency of the head stack assembly upon which the flex cable assembly is coupled. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20080247094 | Flex cable assembly for robust right angle interconnect - A hard disk drive flex cable assembly, for conveying data between a connector to a host system and a head stack assembly, comprises a flex cable, which in part has a first end for coupling to the connector, and a second end for coupling to the head stack assembly; and a stiffener coupled to the second end, wherein the stiffener supports at least one termination pad of the second end on three sides of the termination pad. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090080113 | Vision guided system and method for micro-scale flex cable/integrated lead suspension solder pad positioning in HDD assembling process - An apparatus for positioning a component relative to an associated component. The apparatus includes a component receiver and onto which the component is disposed. The apparatus also includes an associated component receiver and onto which the associated component is disposed. The component receiver orients the component into a position for retaining the component to the associated component. The apparatus further includes a retention device driver for inserting a retention device, the retention device retaining the component to the associated component in the position. The apparatus also includes an optical position verifier for verifying the position of the component and the associated component. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090141404 | Flex cable assembly damper - A flex cable assembly for a head stack assembly of a hard disk drive comprises a flex cable for conducting data signals from the head stack assembly to a connector. The flex cable comprises a dynamic loop section between a termination for the head stack assembly and the connector. A constrained layer damper is attached adjacently to an area of the flex cable that is configured to receive the coupler. The constrained layer damper extends into the dynamic loop section of the flex cable. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20100118444 | FLEX CABLE FOR A HARD DISK DRIVE HAVING AN INTERROGATION TRACE - A flex cable for a head stack assembly of a hard disk drive comprises a base film, a first adhesive layer coupled with the base film, and at least one interrogation trace and at least one signal trace coupled with the first adhesive layer. The interrogation trace is configured to be probed to measure a deterioration of electrical conductivity. The flex cable has a second adhesive layer that is coupled with the interrogation trace, the signal trace, and the first adhesive layer. The flex cable comprises a cover film coupled with the second adhesive layer. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20120160538 | INTERLEAVED CONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH OFFSET TRACES - An interleaved conductor structure for electrically connecting the read/write electronics to a read/write head in a hard disk drive is provided. The interleaved conductor structure may allow for an increased characteristic-impedance range, greater interference shielding and a reduction of signal loss that is contributed by a lossy conductive substrate. The electrical traces may have different widths, be offset, or even wrap around each other at the via connections. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120160548 | INTERLEAVED CONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH TRACES OF VARYING WIDTH - An interleaved conductor structure for electrically connecting the read/write electronics to a read/write head in a hard disk drive is provided. The interleaved conductor structure may allow for an increased characteristic-impedance range, greater interference shielding and a reduction of signal loss that is contributed by a lossy conductive substrate. The electrical traces may have different widths, be offset, or even wrap around each other at the via connections. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120162825 | INTERLEAVED CONDUCTOR STRUCTURE WITH WRAP AROUND TRACES - An interleaved conductor structure for electrically connecting the read/write electronics to a read/write head in a hard disk drive is provided. The interleaved conductor structure may allow for an increased characteristic-impedance range, greater interference shielding and a reduction of signal loss that is contributed by a lossy conductive substrate. The electrical traces may have different widths, be offset, or even wrap around each other at the via connections. | 06-28-2012 |
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| 20100030803 | METHOD FOR GENERATING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE - A method for generating business intelligence comprising the steps of creating a database, contributing data into the database via a computer, assigning numeric values to the data via the computer and calculating scores from the data. The data is selected from agenda, statements, subject types and attributes. The agendum is an objective. The statements support the agendum. The subject types comprise a category of a person, place or object. The attributes describe the subject types and may comprise attribute value descriptions and attribute value inputs. All the data is inputted into a software program, and the software program is utilized to calculate a holistic agendum score or a normalized agendum score. The holistic agendum score is a numerical indicator of the agendum based on holistic calculations and the normalized agendum score is a numerical indicator of the agendum based on zero-based cross normalization calculations. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20110093420 | COMPUTER-PROCESSING SYSTEM SCORING SUBJECTS RELATIVE TO POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, LEGAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL (PESTLE) FACTORS, UTILIZING INPUT DATA AND A COLLABORATION PROCESS, TRANSFORMING A MEASUREMENT VALUATION SYSTEM REGARDING THE VALUE OF SUBJECTS AGAINST AN AGENDA - A method for computing a universal sustainability index comprising the steps of creating a network, inviting participants to join the network, gathering participant data, imputing contributed data by the participants and transforming the contributed data via a computer to obtain a universal sustainability index or alphanumeric indicator. Participant data is gathered utilizing surveys, tests, questionnaires. Contributed data is imputed from participants and comprises attributes, sub-attributes, statements, sub-statements, subjects, raw values, range bottoms, range tops, percent weights, polarity, third party data, and the like. The contributed data is then transformed to obtain a universal sustainability index or alphanumeric indicator, wherein the universal sustainability score or collection of scores comprises an indicator, and wherein the indicator is a numerical value of a selected subject, or comprises an index wherein the index is a numerical value of a selected agenda or sub-agenda. | 04-21-2011 |
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| 20100030799 | Method for Generating a Computer-Processed Financial Tradable Index - A method for generating a computer-processed financial tradable index comprising the steps of gathering organizational data, gathering sentiment data, combining the organizational data and the sentiment data and computing a financial tradable index. More specifically, the organizational data is accessed from public data, entity data and third party data and is representative of environmental, regulatory, economic, technical, social, legal, financial, political and/or policy information. The sentiment data is obtained from an online community and group data comprising perception polls, surveys, questionnaires, pick lists, votes, opinion polls and/or individual opinions. The organizational data and the sentiment data are then multiplied by weighting factors and aggregated into a financial tradable index. Within the computer system Words and/or phrases can be numerically valued, combined, aggregated to construct index valuations. | 02-04-2010 |
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| 20090285076 | Diffractive optical element and method of designing the same - A transmissive or reflective diffractive optical element, comprising: a substrate having a top surface, the top surface being etched into a pattern, the pattern including a periodic surface pattern of grooves formed such that when an incoming light beam is shone onto the top surface, the incoming light beam will be split into a plurality of diffracted light beams, the plurality of diffracted light beams including a plurality of primary diffracted order beams and a plurality of secondary diffracted order beams, wherein the primary diffracted order beams have a primary aggregate efficiency above ninety percent, wherein the plurality of secondary diffracted order beams have a secondary aggregate efficiency of lower than ten percent, and wherein a maximum power of the primary diffracted order beams and a minimum power of the primary diffracted order beams differ by at least ten percent of an average power of the primary diffracted order beams. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20110032602 | ALL-FIBER INTEGRATED HIGH POWER COHERENT BEAM COMBINATION - A fiber laser amplifier system including a master oscillator that generates a signal beam. A splitter splits the signal beam into a plurality of fiber beams where a separate fiber beam is sent to a fiber amplifier for amplifying the fiber beam. A tapered fiber bundle couples all of the output ends of all of the fiber amplifiers into a combined fiber providing a combined output beam. An end cap is optically coupled to an output end of the tapered fiber bundle to expand the output beam. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032603 | INTEGRATED SPECTRAL AND ALL-FIBER COHERENT BEAM COMBINATION - A fiber laser amplifier system including a plurality of master oscillators each generating a signal beam at a different wavelength. A splitter is provided for each master oscillator that splits the signal beam into a plurality of fiber beams where a separate fiber beam is sent to a fiber amplifier. A tapered fiber bundle couples the output ends the fiber amplifiers for each wavelength group into a combined fiber providing a combined output beam, where a separate combined output beam is provided for the wavelength for each master oscillator. An end cap is optically coupled to an output end of each of the tapered fiber bundles to expand the combined output beam. A spectral beam combination grating receives the combined beams from the tapered fiber bundles at different angles and outputs an output beam of all of the combined beams as a single beam being directed in the same direction. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110032604 | PASSIVE ALL-FIBER INTEGRATED HIGH POWER COHERENT BEAM COMBINATION - A fiber laser amplifier system including a beam splitter that splits a feedback beam into a plurality of fiber beams where a separate fiber beam is sent to a fiber amplifier for amplifying the fiber beam. A tapered fiber bundle couples all of the output ends of all of the fiber amplifiers into a combined fiber providing a combined output beam. An end cap is optically coupled to an output end of the tapered fiber bundle to expand the output beam. A beam sampler samples a portion of the output beam from the end cap and provides a sample beam. A single mode fiber receives the sample beam from the beam sampler and provides the feedback beam. | 02-10-2011 |
