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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8160739 | Transferring storage devices within storage device testing systems A method of transferring storage devices within a storage device testing system includes actuating an automated transporter to substantially simultaneously retrieve multiple storage devices presented for testing, and actuating the automated transporter to substantia... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8140182 | Bulk feeding disk drives to disk drive testing systems A method of supplying disk drives to a disk drive testing system includes placing a disk drive tote, carrying multiple disk drives, in a presentation position accessible to an automated transporter of the disk drive testing system. The method includes actuating the ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8131387 | Integrated high-efficiency microwave sourcing control process A technique for controlling instrumentation in an automatic test system includes providing a group of hardware resources that can be configured in a variety of ways to realize different instrument configurations, which generally correspond to different traditional i... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8128417 | Methods and apparatus for connecting printed circuit boards using zero-insertion wiping force connectors A circuit board assembly includes a primary board, and a connector mounted to a mounting location of the primary board. The connector includes compliant conductors, each compliant conductor having a first end and a second end. The connector further includes a connec... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117480 | Dependent temperature control within disk drive testing systems A method of controlling a temperature of a subject test slot in a cluster of test slots includes evaluating a request for a temperature change for the subject test slot to determine if sufficient power is available to achieve the requested temperature change, and in... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8116079 | Storage device testing system cooling A storage device transporter includes a transporter body having first and second body portions. The first body portion is configured to be engaged by automated machinery for manipulation of the storage device transporter. The second body portion is configured to rec... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102173 | Thermal control system for test slot of test rack for disk drive testing system with thermoelectric device and a cooling conduit A disk drive test slot thermal control system includes a test slot including a housing having an outer surface, an internal cavity defined by the housing and including a test compartment for receiving and supporting a disk drive transporter carrying a disk drive for... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098181 | Attenuator circuit An attenuator circuit includes a high-frequency circuit path to produce an attenuated first signal; a low-frequency circuit path to produce an attenuated second signal, where the attenuated first signal has a higher frequency than the attenuated second signal; and a... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095234 | Transferring disk drives within disk drive testing systems A method of transferring disk drives within a disk drive testing system includes actuating an automated transporter to retrieve multiple disk drives presented for testing, and actuating the automated transporter to deliver each retrieved disk drive to a respective t... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094766 | Tracker circuit and method for automated test equipment systems A digital data signal capture circuit for synchronization of received digital data signals includes a transition detector for determining a state transition of the received digital data signal. The transition detector samples the received digital data signal at a fi... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8086343 | Processing storage devices A storage device processing system that includes at least one automated transporter, at least one rack accessible by the at least one automated transporter, and multiple test slots housed by the at least one rack. Each test slot is configured to receive a storage de... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8063727 | Conductive shielding device Devices and methods for reducing stray magnetic fields from an inductor are disclosed. In some aspects, a device includes a substantially U-shaped component configured to attach to a conductive surface of a printed circuit board and configured to substantially surro... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8046396 | Residual Fourier-padding interpolation for instrumentation and measurement A technique for interpolating a series of samples includes constructing a mathematical model of the series that describes its large signal behavior. The model is subtracted from the original series to yield a residue. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is taken of t... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8041449 | Bulk feeding disk drives to disk drive testing systems A method of supplying disk drives to a disk drive testing system includes placing a disk drive tote, carrying multiple disk drives, in a presentation position accessible to an automated transporter of the disk drive testing system. The method includes actuating the ... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8031929 | X-ray inspection of solder reflow in high-density printed circuit board applications According to one embodiment, a method for processing one or more X-ray images includes: receiving at least one image of the one or more X-ray images, the one or more X-ray images being of an assembly extending along a plane; based on the at least one image, autonomo... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7996174 | Disk drive testing A disk drive testing system includes at least one robotic arm defining a first axis substantially normal to a floor surface. The robotic arm is operable to rotate through a predetermined arc about and extend radially from the first axis. Multiple racks are arranged ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7995349 | Storage device temperature sensing A storage device transporter is provided for transporting a storage device and for mounting a storage device within a test slot. The storage device transporter includes a frame that is configured to receive and support a storage device, and a clamping mechanism asso... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7991046 | Calibrating jitter Calibrating jitter in a communication channel between test equipment and a connection for a device under test (DUT) includes sampling test data in the communication channel at about a point of the connection to produce sampled data, where the test data travels throu... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7987063 | Fast, low power formatter for automatic test system Automated test equipment (ATE) used to test semiconductor components during the manufacturing process. The ATE generates and measures signals at test points of a device under test. The ATE includes a signal formatter with an SR latch having set an reset inputs each ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987018 | Transferring disk drives within disk drive testing systems A method of transferring disk drives within a disk drive testing system includes actuating an automated transporter to retrieve multiple disk drives presented for testing, and actuating the automated transporter to deliver each retrieved disk drive to a respective t... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7977583 | Shielded cable interface module and method of fabrication A shielded cable interface module having cable receiving grooves extending laterally to an edge of the board, each including a center conductor groove, an insulator groove, and a shield groove. A center conductor via and a shield via extend through the board. A cond... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7957461 | Calibrating automatic test equipment Calibrating automatic test equipment (ATE) includes determining an offset between a reference timing event and a channel event, where the channel event is associated with a communication channel of the ATE, and adjusting signal transmission over the communication ch... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7946853 | Compliant electro-mechanical device In one embodiment, a compliant contactor is provided which includes a center conductor and an outer conductor with a spacer therebetween. The outer conductor has a mating end adapted to be capable of flexibly contacting an outer conductor mating surface prior to the... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945424 | Disk drive emulator and method of use thereof A disk drive emulator for testing a test slot of a disk drive testing system includes an emulator housing, a testing circuit housed in the emulator housing, and an interface connector disposed on the emulator housing and in electrical communication with the testing ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7940529 | Storage device temperature sensing A storage device transporter is provided for transporting a storage device and for mounting a storage device within a test slot. The storage device transporter includes a frame that is configured to receive and support a storage device, and a clamping mechanism asso... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7933942 | Low cost, high purity sign wave generator An automatic test system that includes low cost and accurate circuitry for generating sinusoidal signals. Each sinusoidal signal generator produces a series of digital values approximating a sine wave. These values are computed, avoiding the need for large memories ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7932734 | Individually heating storage devices in a testing system A storage device transporter is provided for transporting a storage device and for mounting a storage device within a test slot. The storage device transporter includes a frame that is configured to receive and support a storage device. The storage device transporte... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929303 | Storage device testing system cooling A storage device testing system that includes at least one rack, test slots housed by each rack, and at least one air mover in pneumatic communication with the test slots. Each test slot includes a test slot housing having an entrance and an exit, with the entrance ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925074 | Adaptive background propagation method and device therefor In one implementation, a method for reducing reconstruction artifacts in a combined image constructed of a multiple images is provided. The method may include identifying pixels in images that are in a selected range. The identified pixels are replaced the with a su... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920380 | Test slot cooling system for a storage device testing system A test slot cooling system for a storage device testing system includes a storage device transporter having first and second portions. The first portion of the storage device transporter includes an air director and the second portion of the storage device transport... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911778 | Vibration isolation within disk drive testing systems A disk drive test slot includes a housing that defines a test compartment for receiving and supporting a disk drive transporter carrying a disk drive for testing. The housing also defines an open end that provides access to the test compartment for insertion and rem... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7908531 | Networked test system An automatic test system that can be configured to perform any of a number of test processes. The test system contains multiple functional modules that are interconnected by a network. By using software to configure data flow between functional modules, combinations... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7908029 | Processing storage devices A storage device processing system that includes at least one automated transporter, at least one rack accessible by the at least one automated transporter, and multiple test slots housed by the at least one rack. Each test slot is configured to receive a storage de... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7904211 | Dependent temperature control within disk drive testing systems A method of controlling a temperature of a test slot in a disk drive testing system includes regulating temperature changes of a subject test slot based on one or more operating conditions of one or more other test slots neighboring the subject test slot. ... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7890822 | Tester input/output sharing In one implementation, a method of testing multiple DUTs using a single tester channel is provided which includes providing an input signal with the single tester channel simultaneously to each of the DUTs. The method further includes providing a clock signal to eac... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890562 | Sine wave generator with dual port look-up table An automatic test system that includes low cost and accurate circuitry for generating sinusoidal signals. Each sinusoidal signal generator includes a look-up table that can, for each phase on sine wave, output two digital values representing an in-phase and a quadra... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7890207 | Transferring storage devices within storage device testing systems A method of transferring storage devices within a storage device testing system includes actuating an automated transporter to substantially simultaneously retrieve multiple storage devices presented for testing, and actuating the automated transporter to substantia... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7888947 | Calibrating automatic test equipment A method for use with automatic test equipment (ATE) includes programming the ATE to generate bursts, each of which corresponds to a signal characteristic produced by the ATE, obtaining power levels for the bursts, and determining if the power levels for the bursts ... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7885361 | Method and apparatus for 0/180 degree phase detector An embodiment of the present invention provides a system for detecting a phase-shifted signal at high frequencies in data and clock recovery circuitry. An up-pulse generator, in one embodiment, provides output pulses having a duration exceeding the duration of input... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7881397 | Wireless communication system Methods and systems for modulating a signal are described. A phase-modulated signal that includes a sequence of contiguous one-cycle sinusoidal waveforms having a frequency above 50 MHz is generated. The phases of the one-cycle sinusoidal waveforms correspond to sym... | 02/01/2011 |
