Allen Thomas Bracken
Engineers in Layton, UT

5590002, Dec 31, 1996

Jan 23, 1995

8/377033

Allen T. Bracken - Layton UT
Edward L. Rich - Ogden UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

G11B 3314, G11B 554

360 9702

In a magnetic disk drive, a compliant member connects the top of the bearing assembly for the actuator arm to the drive. The member is compliant in the vertical direction and stiff in the horizontal direction to resist actuation forces being applied to the bearing assembly when the actuator rotates the arm. The actuator arm has a fork with a shelf on which the coil is mounted.

6496362, Dec 17, 2002

May 14, 2001

09/858073

Ryan D. Osterhout - Layton UT
Scott P. Thomas - Ogden UT
Paul C. Kunz - Ogden UT
Allen T. Bracken - Layton UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

H05K 502

361685, 361728, 248638, 3122232, 206586

An information storage device ( ) includes a cartridge ( ) which can be removably inserted into a cradle ( ) coupled by a cable ( ) to a host computer. The cartridge includes an outer housing ( ) containing a chamber ( ), and having an electrical connector ( ) on the exterior. An inner housing ( ) contains a hard disk mechanism, and is resiliently supported within the chamber by four resilient elements ( ). A flex circuit ( ) extends from the inner housing to the connector, and permits relative movement of the inner and outer housings. The resilient elements are formed by cutting a cross-shaped part ( ) from a foam sheet, cutting two square parts ( ) from a different foam sheet, adhesively laminating the outer parts to opposite sides of the center part, and then cutting the resulting assembly along two planes to form the four resilient elements.

5650899, Jul 22, 1997

Oct 31, 1995

8/550818

Brian R. Schick - Eden UT
Allen T. Bracken - Layton UT
Edward L. Rich - Ogden UT
Wayne A. Sumner - Ogden UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

G11B 2303

360133

A cartridge for a magnetic disk drive has a clamping mechanism which is actuated as the door to the cartridge is closed when the cartridge is removed from the drive. The door covers the opening through which the cartridge is accessed by read/write heads. When the cartridge is removed from the drive, the mechanism of the present invention clamps the recording disk against the cartridge shell to prevent rattle, which might otherwise damage the recording disk.

5216558, Jun 1, 1993

Jan 30, 1991

7/647845

David Griffith - Layton UT
David Jones - Layton UT
Allen T. Bracken - Layton UT
Theon Rawlings - Layton UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

G11B 1704

360 9906

In a disk drive the drive motor and actuator are mounted in a drawer which is slidable to an open position in which there is no vertical obstruction over the motor. The removable cartridge can be placed on the motor with the motor extending into the cartridge to engage the hub. A shutter in an edge of the cartridge is moved to an open position when the drawer is closed to provide access for the actuator to move magnetic heads into read/write relationship with the disks. A lock for the shutter maintains it in the closed position when the drawer is open.

D460449, Jul 16, 2002

May 14, 2001

29/141898

David Greenhalgh - Roy UT
Spencer Stout - Layton UT
Paul Kunz - Ogden UT
Scott Thomas - Ogden UT
Ryan Osterhout - Layton UT
Allen Bracken - Layton UT
Mark Ciesko - San Francisco CA
Dominic DAndrea - San Francisco UT
Jeanette Numbers - San Francisco UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

1402

D14349

5991130, Nov 23, 1999

Sep 17, 1998

9/154872

Brian R. Schick - Eden UT
Allen T. Bracken - Layton UT
Edward L. Rich - Ogden UT
Wayne A. Sumner - Ogden UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

G11B 2303

360133

A cartridge for a magnetic disk drive has a clamping mechanism which is actuated as the door to the cartridge is closed when the cartridge is removed from the drive. The door covers the opening through which the cartridge is accessed by read/write heads. When the cartridge is removed from the drive, the mechanism of the present invention clamps the recording disk against the cartridge shell to prevent rattle, which might otherwise damage the recording disk.

5666236, Sep 9, 1997

Aug 22, 1995

8/517836

Allen Thomas Bracken - Layton UT
Edward L. Rich - Ogden UT
Harold Lin Woods - Ogden UT
Hong Tan - Layton UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

G11B 2102

360 75

A data storage device for reading and writing information to and from a storage medium and having an actuator for moving a read/write head over a surface of the storage medium comprises an optical sensor mounted on either a surface of the data storage device or a surface of the actuator, and a gray-scale pattern provided on the other of these surfaces, opposite the optical sensor. The gray scale pattern provides an amount of reflected light at the optical sensor that varies with the position of the actuator. The optical sensor receives the reflected light and generates therefrom an output signal indicative of the position of the actuator. A control system processes the position signal output from the optical sensor for controlling the velocity of the actuator.

5585679, Dec 17, 1996

May 25, 1995

8/450691

Allen T. Bracken - Layton UT
Edward L. Rich - Ogden UT
Ted R. Davis - Oklahoma City OK

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

H02K 4102, G11B 3300

310 13

A one-piece magnet return path assembly for a disk drive actuator comprises an upper plate, a lower plate and a plurality of standoffs extending between the upper and lower plates and establishing a pre-determined spacing between the plates. The upper and lower plates and the plurality of standoffs are stamped from a single sheet of magnetically permeable material that is then bent at predetermined locations to form the completed one-piece magnet return path assembly.

6252740, Jun 26, 2001

Feb 18, 2000

9/506638

Wayne A. Sumner - Ogden UT
Allen T. Bracken - Layton UT
David W. Griffith - Layton UT
David E. Jones - Layton UT
Edward L. Rich - Ogden UT

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

G11B 2303

360133

A cartridge for a magnetic disk drive has a rigid shell and a flexible door which covers an opening through which read/write heads engage the recording medium. The flexible door is guided outside of the shell to an open position as the cartridge is inserted into the drive. A projection on a flexible arm in the drive catches a hole in the flexible door to open it as the cartridge is inserted into the drive. The door along the outside of the cartridge conserves space so that the recording medium can be large for a given form factor drive.

D460069, Jul 9, 2002

May 14, 2001

29/141830

David Greenhalgh - Roy UT
Spencer Stout - Layton UT
Paul Kunz - Ogden UT
Scott Thomas - Ogden UT
Ryan Osterhout - Layton UT
Allen Bracken - Layton UT
Mark Ciesko - San Francisco CA
Dominic DAndrea - San Francisco CA
Jeanette Numbers - San Francisco CA

Iomega Corporation - Roy UT

1402

D14368