Anthony S Wu

6701341, Mar 2, 2004

Nov 24, 1999

09/449095

Anthony Wu - San Jose CA
Ali Moayer - Castro Valley CA
Pin Yu - Palo Alto CA

U-Systems, Inc. - Los Altos CA

G06F 1516

709200, 709101, 709106, 709201, 709205, 128915, 128916, 600437, 600442, 600447, 600453, 600345, 600502, 600810, 600348

An ultrasound information processing system is disclosed in which ultrasound image data is packetized into ultrasound information packets and routed to one or more of a plurality of processors for performing image processing operations on the ultrasound image data, the ultrasound information packets being routed according to entries in a host-programmable routing table. A common distribution bus is coupled between packetizing circuitry and dedicated input buffers corresponding to each processor for distributing the ultrasound information packets, and a common output bus to is used to transfer processed image data from the processors to an output device. The disclosed ultrasound information processing system architecture allows for a high throughput rate for accommodating real-time image processing operations, while also allowing for ready programmability and upgradability. Advantageously, the disclosed ultrasound information processing system may be readily upgraded by coupling additional processors to the common distribution bus and the common output bus and by reprogramming the routing table to include the additional processors as destinations for the ultrasound information packets. The disclosed ultrasound information processing system architecture also provides for added field reliability by providing for an optional spare processor coupled to the common distribution bus and the common output bus, wherein upon detection of a failure of one of the existing processors, the optional spare processor may be loaded with a copy of a program being run by the failing processor and the routing table may by automatically modified to redirect ultrasound data packets from the failing processor to the spare processor.

53072235, Apr 26, 1994

Aug 7, 1992

7/926488

Mary F. Doerner - Los Gatos CA
Dan S. Parker - San Jose CA
Anthony W. Wu - San Jose CA
Tadashi Yogi - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G11B

360 9701

A magnetic recording disk based on conventional disk technology has both an extremely smooth top surface and high coercivity, and is incorporated in a contact recording disk file which requires an extremely smooth head-disk interface and a disk with high coercivity. A superfinished untextured NiP coating on a disk substrate is oxidized to form a NiO film. The NiO film permits the subsequently sputter deposited magnetic layer to have much higher coercivity, which enables the disk to be used in contact recording applications. The NiO film and the later deposited layers making up the disk, including the top protective overcoat, conform to the smooth surface of the polished NiP, thus preserving the extremely smooth surface of the top layer of the disk, which is required for the head-disk interface in contact recording disk files. In the preferred process for forming the NiO film on the substrate, the substrate is annealed in air at a temperature below that which would cause the NiP film to crystallize.

50304941, Jul 9, 1991

Jan 26, 1989

7/302844

Richard H. Ahlert - San Jose CA
James K. Howard - Morgan Hill CA
Kwang K. Kim - San Jose CA
Ian L. Sanders - Morgan Hill CA
Anthony W. Wu - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G11B 2300

428 64

A thin film metal alloy magnetic recording disk has an improved protective overcoat which is both wear resistant and which creates a low level of stiction in a rigid disk file. In a preferred embodiment the overcoat is a film of essentially amorphous carbon or hydrogen-containing carbon with relatively small amounts of additives of iron (Fe), tungsten (W) or tungsten-carbide (WC). The structure of the overcoat is a relatively smooth planar carbon surface with discrete clusters of the additives which project slightly above the smooth carbon surface. The specific additives to the carbon overcoat improve the wear resistance of the disk and permit the sliders to contact the disks in contact start/stop (CSS) operation without damage to any of the disk file components.

55957919, Jan 21, 1997

May 31, 1995

8/455171

Peter M. Baumgart - San Jose CA
Wing P. Leung - Arcadia CA
Hung V. Nguyen - San Jose CA
Thao A. Nguyen - San Jose CA
Andrew C. Tam - Saratoga CA
Anthony Wu - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

B05D 136

427554

A process for creating an array of bumps to texture a brittle nonmetallic surface, such as a glass substrate for data recording disks. The texturing process uses a laser to provide pulses of proper energy fluence to the brittle glass surface to produce a plurality of raised bumps in the surface. The bump creation is accomplished without unwanted micro-cracking or ejection of surface material by limiting the laser pulse fluence to a value in a narrow operating region discovered below the abrupt thermal shock fluence threshold for the brittle nonmetallic surface material. The process is also applicable to other brittle surface textures, such as those intended for use as "stamping surfaces" for the contact reproduction of the negative of a surface pattern, such as an optical disk.

41209958, Oct 17, 1978

Oct 18, 1977

5/843194

Peter Beverley Phipps - Saratoga CA
Bhim Sain Sharma - San Jose CA
Anthony Wai Wu - Fishkill NY

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

C23C 1304

427248A

This invention is concerned with a process for bonding a durable low surface energy polymeric coating to a metal or oxide surface. The metal or oxide surface is first treated with an alkali, thereby maximizing the hydroxide ion concentration on the surface, and then in a rigorously dry state with a rigorously dry fluorinated material to form the polymeric coating. The fluorinated material has the formula Rf -- O -- (CH. sub. 2). sub. n -- SiX. sub. 3 wherein Rf is a fluorinated lower alkyl group, n is an integer from 2 to 10, and X is a halogen, cyanide or alkoxy group.

55674844, Oct 22, 1996

May 31, 1995

8/455861

Peter M. Baumgart - San Jose CA
Wing P. Leung - Arcadia CA
Hung V. Nguyen - San Jose CA
Thao A. Nguyen - San Jose CA
Andrew C. Tam - Saratoga CA
Anthony Wu - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

B05D 300

427555

A process for creating an array of bumps to texture a brittle nonmetallic surface, such as a glass substrate for data recording disks. The texturing process uses a laser to provide pulses of proper energy fluence to the brittle glass surface to produce a plurality of raised bumps in the surface. The bump creation is accomplished without unwanted micro-cracking or ejection of surface material by limiting the laser pulse fluence to a value in a narrow operating region discovered below the abrupt thermal shock fluence threshold for the brittle nonmetallic surface material. The process is also applicable to other brittle surface textures, such as those intended for use as "stamping surfaces" for the contact reproduction of the negative of a surface pattern, such as an optical disk.

62465430, Jun 12, 2001

Sep 17, 1996

8/714831

Peter Michael Baumgart - San Jose CA
Wing Pun Leung - Arcadia CA
Hung Viet Nguyen - San Jose CA
Thao Anh Nguyen - San Jose CA
Andrew Ching Tam - Saratoga CA
Anthony Wu - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G11B 582

360135

A magnetic recording disk with a glass substrate is textured by a process which creates an array of bumps in a magnetic head contact start and stop (CSS) region of the disk. The texturing process uses a laser to provide pulses of predetermined energy fluence on the glass substrate to produce a plurality of raised bumps in the substrate surface, each bump having a surface elevation controllable to within a few nanometers. The bumps are created without unwanted micro-cracking or ejection of surface material by exploiting a narrow operating region below the abrupt thermal shock fluence threshold of the glass substrate. This textured glass substrate provides the magnetic recording disk with improved stiction, wear, coatability and sensor flying height properties.

53744632, Dec 20, 1994

Oct 22, 1991

7/815120

Donald S. Bethune - San Jose CA
Mattanjah Sjim'on de Vries - Los Gatos CA
Gerard Meijer - Nijmegen, NL
Vlad J. Novotny - Cupertino CA
Timothy C. Reiley - Los Gatos CA
Anthony W. Wu - San Jose CA

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G11B 500

428 64

A film comprising fullerene molecules or their derivatives, preferably C. sub. 60 or C. sub. 70 fullerene molecules, is used as a lubricating film between two bearing surfaces. In a particular embodiment, a data recording disk file with the film deposited on the disk surface has improved properties of static friction and wear resistance at the head-disk interface.