Robert Wayne Gibbs

US Patent:

6362937, Mar 26, 2002

Filed:

Dec 22, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/470564

Inventors:

Robert M. Gibbs - Longmont CO
Bruce J. Oxley - Boulder CO

Assignee:

Seagate Technology LLC - CA

International Classification:

G11B 554

US Classification:

3602561, 360 9702

Abstract:

An apparatus for accelerating and concentrating wind generated by spinning discs in a disc drive includes a stationary air vane member mounted on a disc drive base plate beneath a bottom disc. The air vane member preferably has a rib with an upper edge in a plane parallel to the plane of rotation of the disc adjacent a bottom surface of the disc and curves from the inner diameter of the disc to the outer diameter in the direction of rotation of the disc. The rib terminates adjacent a wind actuated pivoting air filter latch which holds an actuator assembly in a parked position when the drive is de-energized. This arrangement accelerates and concentrates the wind at the latch apparatus to increase wind force on the pivoting air filter latch to move the latch to an unlatched position when the rotating discs reach normal operating speed to permit the actuator to move from the parked position.

US Patent:

6507462, Jan 14, 2003

Filed:

Oct 12, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/689471

Inventors:

Robert Mitchell Gibbs - Longmont CO
Aaron Steve Macpherson - Fort Collins CO

Assignee:

Seagate Technology LLC - Scotts Valley CA

International Classification:

G11B 2108

US Classification:

3602647

Abstract:

A disc drive having a base plate and an information storage disc supported for rotation by a drive motor on the base plate. The disc drive further includes a rotary actuator assembly mounted on the base plate adjacent the information storage disc. The actuator assembly has an actuator arm carrying a transducer at a distal end thereof and a voice coil motor operably attached to the actuator arm for movement of the transducer over the disc. The voice coil motor has a vertically extending shroud flange positioned adjacent the outer peripheral edge of the disc, whereby the shroud flange directs air-flow along the peripheral edge of the disc during drive operation.

US Patent:

45679029, Feb 4, 1986

Filed:

Aug 11, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/522149

Inventors:

Robert D. Gibbs - Richmond VA
James A. Remington - Richmond VA

Assignee:

Philip Morris Incorporated - New York NY

International Classification:

A24C 518

US Classification:

131 844

Abstract:

A tobacco stream is formed on the underside of a vacuum belt conveyor and is transported past a tobacco trimming device (18) to be converted into a rod-like filler which is draped onto cigarette paper and severed to yield discrete cigarettes which are united with filter plugs. Trimming device 18 consists of overlapping disc knives (19) and (20). Overlapping of disc knives (19) and (20) eliminates the need for brushes to remove excess tobacco.

US Patent:

20170101202, Apr 13, 2017

Filed:

Oct 13, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/881983

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
David Ray Lapp - Boulder CO, US
Jeffrey James Croxall - Boulder CO, US
Robert M. Gibbs - Longmont CO, US

International Classification:

B65B 31/00
G11B 33/14
G11B 33/02

Abstract:

Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards dual cavity apparatus and related methods involving hermetically sealing the cavities by evacuating and atmosphere therein, filling the cavity with a gas, and sealing the gas in the cavities. This evacuation and fill approach is carried out through openings that provide access to the cavities. During evacuation of at least one of the cavities through one of the openings, one or more spacers prevent the cavity from collapsing in response to the vacuum force.

US Patent:

20170062019, Mar 2, 2017

Filed:

Sep 2, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/843220

Inventors:

- Cupertino CA, US
David G. Fitzgerald - Lafayette CO, US
David Ray Lapp - Boulder CO, US
Jerome Thomas Coffey - Boulder CO, US
Robert M. Gibbs - Longmont CO, US

International Classification:

G11B 33/14
B23K 20/00
B23K 20/12

Abstract:

Certain exemplary aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards a disc drive apparatus. A base deck and a cover are joined to one another by a friction-stir weld along a lip of the cover that extends along a periphery of the cover and over a surface of the base deck. The base deck and cover enclose a cavity, which is hermetically sealed by the weld.