Kenneth M Young

US Patent:

6376964, Apr 23, 2002

Filed:

May 16, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/860158

Inventors:

Kenneth F. Young - San Jose CA
Edmund B. Fanslau - San Jose CA
Muhammad A. Hawwa - Fremont CA

Assignee:

Read-Rite Corporation - Fremont CA

International Classification:

G11B 556

US Classification:

310311, 31032301, 3102445

Abstract:

A head gimbal assembly ( ) for a disk drive ( ), having a flexure ( ) with a stationary portion ( ) and at least one movable portion ( ), a portion of the flexure ( ) being attached to a load beam ( ). A slider ( ) containing a read/write head ( ) is attached to one of the movable portions ( ) of the flexure ( ). The load beam ( ) provides a center of rotation ( ) for the slider ( ) and one or more microactuators ( ) connect between the stationary portion ( ) of the flexure ( ) and one of the movable portions ( ) for applying a moment which causes pure or nearly pure rotation of the slider ( ) about the center of rotation ( ). A disk drive ( ) and an actuator arm ( ) including the head gimbal assembly ( ) are also disclosed.

US Patent:

6751055, Jun 15, 2004

Filed:

Jan 8, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/042674

Inventors:

Arshad Alfoqaha - San Jose CA
Mohamad T. Krounbi - San Jose CA
Sandrawattie Sankar - San Diego CA
David J. Seagle - Morgan Hill CA
Kenneth R. Young - San Jose CA

Assignee:

Western Digital (Fremont), Inc. - Fremont CA

International Classification:

G11B 531

US Classification:

360126

Abstract:

An inductive transducer has inorganic nonferromagnetic material disposed in an apex region adjacent to a submicron nonferromagnetic gap in a magnetic core. The inorganic nonferromagnetic material has a much lower coefficient of thermal expansion than that of hardbaked photoresist, reducing pole tip protrusion even if other insulation surrounding the coil sections within the core is made of hardbaked photoresist. Alternatively, the entire insulation surrounding the coil sections within the core, in addition to the apex region, can be formed of inorganic nonferromagnetic material, further reducing pole tip protrusion. The transducer has SiO rather than alumina in an undercoat layer joining the wafer substrate and the thin film layers of the transducer. SiO may also replace alumina in other areas, such as a piggyback layer joining the inductive transducer with a magnetoresistive transducer.

US Patent:

7035046, Apr 25, 2006

Filed:

Mar 19, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/100790

Inventors:

Kenneth Frederick Young - San Jose CA, US
David John Seagle - Morgan Hill CA, US

Assignee:

Western Digital (Fremont), Inc. - Fremont CA

International Classification:

G11B 5/147

US Classification:

360126

Abstract:

An enhanced recording head design provides thermal diffusion and thermal expansion control in order to minimize the pole tip protrusion resulting from the thermal heating of the magnetic recording head during operation. In one embodiment, the recording head a thermal restraint section formed above a write section, and is made of a 60–80% face-centered-cubic NiFe (Invar) material. According to another embodiment, the thermal restraint section is formed under the read section. According to yet another embodiment, one thermal restraint section is formed above the write section, and another thermal restraint section formed under the read section.

US Patent:

D585275, Jan 27, 2009

Filed:

Dec 6, 2006

Appl. No.:

29/250937

Inventors:

Kenneth Vivian Young - Gardena CA, US
Michael Lasha Lincoln - Los Angeles CA, US

Assignee:

Vivian-Linc, Inc. - Inglewood CA

International Classification:

0907

US Classification:

D 9439

US Patent:

8639147, Jan 28, 2014

Filed:

Mar 29, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/074122

Inventors:

Hui Qian - San Jose CA, US
Kenneth Young - Foster City CA, US

Assignee:

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. - San Mateo CA

International Classification:

G03G 15/00

US Classification:

399 82

Abstract:

A method for managing the printing of documents on pre-printed media, which includes the steps of: receiving a print job representing a document to be printed; detecting an orientation of a pre-printed media being fed into an image forming apparatus; processing the print job for printing based on the orientation of the pre-printed media; and printing the print job on at least one sheet of the pre-printed media.

US Patent:

20090179416, Jul 16, 2009

Filed:

Dec 6, 2006

Appl. No.:

12/096337

Inventors:

Kenneth Vivian Young - Gardena CA, US
Michael Lasha Lincoln - Los Angeles CA, US

Assignee:

Vivan-Linc Inc. - Inglewood CA

International Classification:

B42D 15/00
B65D 51/00

US Classification:

283 67, 283 56, 220376

Abstract:

A method of advertising is provided in which a stopper having substantially parallel sides is inserted into a hole in a container, and a message is displayed on, a surface of the stopper towards a thicker end of the stopper and external to the container.

US Patent:

20090234121, Sep 17, 2009

Filed:

Jan 15, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/354409

Inventors:

Roy A. Periana - Jupiter FL, US
Jonas Oxgaard - Monrovia CA, US
Kenneth Young - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

C07C 51/255
C07F 17/02
C07C 15/04
C07C 9/04
C07C 37/58
C07C 29/50
C07C 53/00

US Classification:

546 4, 585400, 585700, 568802, 568910, 562408, 5625122

Abstract:

The synthesis of discrete, air, protic, and thermally stable transition metal NNC complexes that catalyze the CH activation and functionalization of alkanes and arenes is disclosed. Methods for the selective conversion of methane to methanol or methyl esters in acidic and neutral media are disclosed.

US Patent:

20130258361, Oct 3, 2013

Filed:

Mar 30, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/435822

Inventors:

Hui QIAN - San Jose CA, US
Kenneth Young - Foster City CA, US

Assignee:

Konica Minolta Laboratory U.S.A., Inc. - San Mateo CA

International Classification:

G06K 15/02
G06F 3/12
H04N 1/60

US Classification:

358 19, 358 118, 358 115

Abstract:

A method for changing physical page properties in a large format printing application on a client device, the client device having executable instructions for creating a print job for producing a printout of an image, which includes the steps of: selecting the image for the print job; selecting a logical page size for the printout of the image; dividing the logical page size into a plurality of physical pages based on a selected medium; and selecting at least one physical page from the plurality of physical pages and changing at least one print property on the at least one physical page.