Gary M. Peter
Engineering at Bienapfl Dr, Boise, ID

5497281, Mar 5, 1996

Oct 31, 1994

8/331770

Robert W. Jewell - Boise ID
Gary M. Peter - Boise ID

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G11B 1708

360 9808

A disk pack is clamped between an external flange adjacent one end of a hub and a ring clamp adjacent the other end of the hub. The hub terminates in a tubular section at the location of the ring clamp. The tubular section has substantially cylindrical internal and external surfaces. The ring clamp has a central opening defined by a wall in the ring clamp. The wall of the central opening of the ring clamp is a sliding fit over the substantially cylindrical external surface of the tubular section of the hub. The periphery of a circular expander wedge has an interference fit engagement within the substantially cylindrical internal surface of the tubular hub section. When the circular expander wedge is in place in the tubular section of the hub the tubular section is expanded. The substantially cylindrical external surface of the tubular section is compressed against the wall of the central opening of the ring clamp. The radial pressure or force is maintained by the presence of the circular expander wedge which, in the best mode for practicing the invention, remains in place.

6032017, Feb 29, 2000

Apr 9, 1999

9/289164

Robert W. Jewell - Boise ID
Gary M. Peter - Boise ID

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G03G 1520, H05B 100

399336

A fixing device includes a fusing roller, a backing roller and an adjustable heater for selectively heating the fusing roller and the backing roller. The adjustable heater includes a heating element and a reflector. The reflector can be positioned to direct heat from the heating element upon the fusing roller or the backing roller. The reflector is coupled to the shaft of a solenoid. Positioning of the reflector is controlled by alternately energizing or de-energizing the solenoid. During the time period between the passing of successive units of the media through the fixing device, the reflector is positioned to heat the backing roller. Heating the backing roller melts toner accumulated on its surface. When the next unit of the media passes between the fusing roller and the backing roller, toner accumulated on the surface of the backing roller is moved onto to the media. By heating the backing roller between the passage of successive units of the media, the quantity of toner that accumulates on the surface backing roller remains small so that the severity of print defects is reduced.

5493462, Feb 20, 1996

Jun 3, 1994

8/253634

Gary M. Peter - Boise ID

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G11B 17022, G11B 1702

360 9912

A hard disk pack assembly is attached to a motor powered rotatable member in a disk drive by a spring ring. A disk hub mounts one or more disks, functioning as an axial disk spacer when more than one disk is installed. The disk hub has a central circular opening fitted about a cylindrical body on the rotatable member and seats upon a shoulder on the cylindrical body. A spring ring snaps radially inwardly into a circumferential groove in the cylindrical body in a position wedged between surface of the circumferential groove and an upper circular edge of the circular opening in the disk hub to apply axial and radial components of spring force to the disk hub for the purpose of securely seating the disk hub on the shoulder of the cylindrical body and to center the disk hub with respect to the cylindrical body.

5459627, Oct 17, 1995

Nov 16, 1993

8/153253

Gary M. Peter - Boise ID

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G11B 1708, G11B 1702, H02K 714

360 9808

In an elastic coaxial coupler, a cylindrical body of a first member is fitted through an opening in a second member seating said second member upon a flange on the first member. A circumferential groove in the cylindrical body has a conical groove surface confronting a surface of the second member adjacent the opening in the second member. An O-ring in tension around the cylindrical body at the circumferential groove, is drawn into the circumferential groove by the radial force component of the O-ring tension force and is compressed between the conical groove surface and the surface of the second member adjacent the opening in the second member, to securely frictionally engage the second member to the flange of the first member. In an application of this elastic coaxial coupler to a hard disk drive, the first member is the hub of a disk assembly and the second member is the hard disk. In a different application of this elastic coaxial coupler to a hard disk drive, the first member is the rotor of the disk motor and the second member is the hard disk hub.

5960230, Sep 28, 1999

Jan 28, 1999

9/239644

Gary M. Peter - Boise ID

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G03G 1500, B65H 344

399 23

An imaging device includes a mechanism and method for approximating media count in a media tray by utilizing course granularity levels of media detected in the tray in combination with an actual count of media processed by the imaging device. A preferred method of determining media count in a media holding tray includes detecting a first course granularity level of media in the holding tray, counting a number of individual media removed from the holding tray, detecting a second course granularity level of media in the holding tray and, calculating the number of media remaining in the holding tray based upon at least the second level of media detected and the counted number of individual media removed from the tray.

5422768, Jun 6, 1995

May 31, 1994

8/250900

Donald P. Roehling - Boise ID
Gary M. Peter - Boise ID

Hewlett-Packard Company - Palo Alto CA

G11B 1708

360 9808

To minimize unwanted motion in a hard disk assembly in a hard disk drive, an elastomeric support is employed to mount a hard disk pack for rotation by a motor rotor of a disk spindle motor. The hard disk pack includes a hard disk support ring which has opposite annular axial faces upon which the hard disks are securely mounted and axially spaced thereby. An elastomeric connection between the hard disk support ring and a cylindrical body of the motor rotor of the disk spindle motor, provides a soft, or compliant, support for the hard disk pack.

7333245, Feb 19, 2008

Jul 16, 2001

09/906958

Gary M. Peter - Boise ID, US
Matt Howell - Boise ID, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 3/12, G06F 15/78, G06F 15/167, G06K 1/00, H04N 1/64, H04N 1/32, H04N 1/21

358403, 358 115, 358 116, 35842612, 358435, 358407

A computing system including a computer and a printer. The computer is operable to transmit a print job to the printer that cases the printer to retain the job. The computer is further operable to record a record of the job. The record includes an identifier of the job and an identifier of the printer. The user can later retrieve and display the job ID and request that the job be printed. The computer responds by causing the printer to print the job.

7426049, Sep 16, 2008

Jul 16, 2001

09/906890

Gary M. Peter - Boise ID, US
Matt Howell - Boise ID, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06F 3/12, G06F 15/00, G06K 1/00

358 115, 358 113, 358 114, 358 116, 709247

A computing system including a printer capable of retaining print jobs, a first computer and a second computer. The first computer is capable of transmitting a print job to the printer that causes the printer to retain the job. The first computer is also operable to cause the second computer to store a record of the job. A user of the first computer can later retrieve this record in order to identify the job. The user can also interact with the first computer to re-print the job.

2003001, Jan 16, 2003

Jul 16, 2001

09/907095

Gary Peter - Boise ID, US
Matt Howell - Boise ID, US

B41J001/00, G06F015/00, B41F001/00

358/001150, 358/001140, 358/001100

A computing system including a first computer, a remote computer and a printer. The first computer is operable by a user to transmit a print job to the printer. The first computer is configured to automatically transmit a message to the remote computer. The message includes a copy of the print job. The remote computer is responsive to the message by storing the copy of the print job and by storing a record of the copy of the print job. A user can operate the first computer to retrieve and display this record. The user can also operate the first computer to cause the remote computer to transmit the copy of the print job to second printer.