Stephen M Kahn

US Patent:

6654767, Nov 25, 2003

Filed:

Dec 29, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/751873

Inventors:

Brian T. McAnaney - Stamford CT
Stephen D. Kahn - Brooklyn NY
Todd L. Mattson - New York NY
Patrick Kennedy Patnode - Ballston Spa NY
Jean Kelly Testa - Rexford NY
Mary McCrea NcNamara - Niskayuna NY

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

International Classification:

G06C 1730

US Classification:

7071041, 707102, 715507

Abstract:

Methods and systems for management of invention disclosures, in one exemplary embodiment, utilizes a system including a server and at least one device connected to the server via a network. The system restricts access of users based upon job description. In addition, the system facilitates evaluation of each invention disclosure by storing invention disclosure information input by users and sorting invention disclosures based on criteria input by the submitter as well as by other multiple users via the device. Invention disclosure information is based upon at least one of an innovation disclosure, a patentability assessment, an intrinsic value assessment, a competitive value assessment and an overall assessment of the invention.

US Patent:

61969079, Mar 6, 2001

Filed:

Oct 1, 1999

Appl. No.:

9/410624

Inventors:

Stephen S. Kahn - Northport NY

Assignee:

U.S. Dynamics Corporation - Amityville NY

International Classification:

B24B 5700

US Classification:

451446

Abstract:

A slurry delivery system for use with a polishing machine wherein the slurry delivery system is designed to reduce the incidence of oxidized metals or rust from flowing into a slurry compound used to polish substrates used in the manufacture of disk drives. The slurry delivery system comprises an extended drive shaft made from type 416 stainless steel having a longitudinally extending inner channel Inside of this inner channel is a type 316 slurry feed tube that is used to shield the type 416 stainless steel from a slurry containing corrosive de-ionized water. The drive shaft has a first end connected to a drive motor and a second distal end. Connected to the second distal end is a type 316 stainless steel hub. The hub is surrounded by a urethane slurry distribution plate that has channels cut for allowing slurry to flow. This slurry flows onto a urethane slurry isolation pad and through slurry distribution tubes mounted in holes in the platen and onto the surface of nickel plated substrates used to manufacture hard disk drives.