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Combination Beverage Container and Spittoon
A combination beverage container and spittoon includes a bottom portion including outer wall and a first inner wall defining a spittoon space.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7506553 | Methods, devices and systems for adaptively driving screws using a screw driving tool A method of driving screws into a workpiece using an automatic screw driving tool having first and second components, the first component including a screw bit. The method may include steps of measuring a relative displacement between the first and second components... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7414814 | Disk drives, head stack, head gimbal and suspension assemblies having a compliant suspension tail design for solder reflow A suspension assembly for a disk drive includes a load beam and a flexure. The flexure has a first end including a plurality of bond pads for electrical connection to a slider and a second end having a tail for attachment to a flexible cable. The tail includes a sup... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7315435 | Disk drives, head stack, head gimbal and suspension assemblies having positional conductive features A disk drive includes a disk, and a head stack assembly (HSA). The HSA includes a preamplifier; an actuator assembly that defines an actuator arm; a load beam supported by the actuator arm, the load beam defining a registration feature. A flexure is coupled to the l... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7274534 | Disk drive configured to enable non destructive leak detection at the interface between a drive sub-component and the disk drive housing A disk drive includes a disk drive housing having a breather hole and a separate leak testing hole, both the breather hole and the leak testing hole being formed through the disk drive housing, and a drive sub-component attached to a surface of the disk drive housin... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7215513 | Disk drive including a one-piece stamped actuator arm assembly and method of making same An actuator arm assembly of a disk drive is stamped from a single flat sheet of material and includes first and second actuator arm portions and one or more bendable portions integrally joining the first and second actuator arm portions. A method of making an actuat... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7215496 | Disk drive having adaptively-sized sectors to compensate for disk eccentricity A disk drive includes an actuator assembly having a read/write head, a spindle motor, a disk mounted for rotation on the spindle motor, a wedge-to-wedge timer and a sector size selector. The disk includes a recording surface having a plurality of tracks and each tra... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209319 | Disk drive having a disk drive component adhered to the disk drive housing via an adhesive assembly having a leveling layer A disk drive includes a disk drive housing having a breather hole formed through the disk drive housing. A breather filter is configured for attachment to the disk drive housing and for limiting and filtering airflow into the disk drive housing. The breather filter ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7178432 | Methods, devices and systems for screw feeding by vacuum and gravity An electric screwdriver with automatic screw feeding includes a shaft defining a bit; a body portion, the body portion defining a screw conduit configured to receive the bit; a screw feeder tube; a vacuum coupler, and a screw holding assembly. At least a distal port... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7161769 | Disk drive having an actuator arm assembly that includes stamped actuator arms A disk drive includes a disk and a head stack assembly. The head stack assembly includes an actuator arm assembly that includes first and second stamped actuator arms. The first stamped actuator arm may include a first arm portion, a first body portion and a coil-su... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7126776 | Disk drive having a sector clock that is synchronized to the angular speed of the spindle motor The present invention compensates for variations in the angular velocity of the drive's spindle motor by periodically dropping clocks to a counter based upon the previous servo wedge-to-wedge timing. This enables a substantially constant count to be maintained betwe... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7075746 | Disk drives and disk drive containing devices that include a servo frequency generator and spindle control timer that compensate for disk eccentricity A disk includes an actuator assembly, a spindle motor and a disk that defines a plurality of servo wedges. A wedge to wedge timer is configured to measure the time elapsed between at least two circumferentially adjacent servo wedges and to output a wedge to wedge co... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7076391 | Methods and systems for asynchronously testing a plurality of disk drives An asynchronous system for testing disk drives includes a test platform that includes a plurality of slots for receiving and for providing communication with drives. The slots are segregated into a plurality of groups configured to satisfy predetermined environmenta... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7031902 | Presilicon disk model for design, development and validation A method for verifying the design of a disk controller circuit to be incorporated into a targeted hard disk drive system having a read/write channel and a head actuator may include steps of emulating reading and writing of data in the read/write channel based upon a... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6989953 | Disk drive and disk drive-containing device having selectively controllable spindle motor spin up profiles A spindle motor in a disk drive is driven by a driving circuit that, upon receipt of a signal or command, selectively spins up the spindle motor according to a first spin up profile or according to a second spin up profile that is defined to provide a longer spin up... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6980401 | Head stack and actuator arm assemblies including a bobbin to stiffen the coil portion of an actuator of a hard disk drive and disk drives including the same A disk drive includes a disk and a head stack assembly for reading and writing to the disk. The head stack assembly includes a body portion defining a through bore that defines a pivot axis; an actuator arm cantilevered from the body portion and a head gimbal assemb... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6965500 | Suspension design for attenuation of disk flutter induced track mis-registration of a hard disk drive by manipulation of load beam pitch angle A disk drive includes a head gimbal assembly that includes structure that decreases the pitch angle of the load beam, which decreases disk flutter induced track mis-registration. According to one embodiment, the disk drive includes a body portion including a bore de... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6937439 | Slider having a textured air bearing surface, head stack assembly and disk drive using same A disk drive includes a disk having a recording surface and a head stack assembly. The head stack assembly includes a body portion that includes a bore defining a pivot axis, an actuator arm cantilevered from the body portion and a head gimbal assembly supported at ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930848 | Back EMF voltage transducer/generator to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy for use in small disk drives A mobile host device configured to draw electrical energy from an energy storage device includes a disk drive. The disk drive includes a disk drive enclosure including a base, a spindle motor attached to the base, a disk positioned on the spindle motor, a generator ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6897393 | Methods for reducing costs and increasing throughput in the manufacture of disk drives by categorizing the disk drives based upon measured disk pack imbalance A method of manufacturing disk drives that are subject to disk pack imbalance includes steps of measuring the disk pack imbalance of each drive and assigning each of the drives to one of a predetermined plurality of categories, depending upon the measured disk pack ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6891702 | Method and devices for providing magnetoresistive heads with protection from electrostatic discharge and electric overstress events A disk drive includes a disk having a recording surface, a head stack assembly that includes a body portion, an actuator arm cantilevered from the body portion and a head gimbal assembly supported at the actuator arm. The head gimbal assembly includes a suspension h... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6867950 | Cleating features to improve adhesive interface between a bobbin and a coil of an actuator coil portion of a hard disk drive A disk drive includes a disk, and a head stack assembly for reading and writing to the disk. The head stack assembly may include a body portion defining a through bore that defines a pivot axis; an actuator arm cantilevered from the body portion; a head gimbal assem... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6580573 | DISK DRIVE HAVING A CHANNEL CIRCUIT WHICH RECEIVES A READ SIGNAL REPRESENTING DATA IN A DATA SECTOR AND DATA IN A SERVO SECTOR IN A FIRST ORDER AND DEMODULATES THE READ SIGNAL TO PROVIDE DATA SECTOR DATA AND SERVO-SECTOR DATA IN A SECOND ORDER A disk drive has a channel circuit for demodulating data sectors and servo sectors stored on a rotating medium to provide data-sector data and servo-sector data. The channel circuit transmits the data-sector data and servo-sector data to a disk controller... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6549381 | Disk drive having actuator motion damper via histeresis energy loss of low energy magnet placed within magnetic field of a voice coil motor A disk drive includes a disk having a recording surface and a head stack assembly that includes an actuator body; an actuator arm cantilevered from the actuator body and including a head for reading and writing on the recording surface; a coil cantilevere... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6522504 | Head stack assembly and disk drive using a reversed direction head gimbal assembly A disk drive includes a head gimbal assembly and a disk that includes a recording surface. The head gimbal assembly comprises a load beam, the load beam including a first load beam surface facing toward the recording surface and a second load beam surface... | 02/18/2003 |
| 5847948 | Scanner power module A circuit that provides all the power signals required to operate sheet-fed, flatbed, duplex and slides document scanners. The circuit accepts universal worldwide primary AC input or alternatively commonly found DC input and generates all the power supply... | 12/08/1998 |
