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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hung D Dao, Tomball, TX (US);
Thomas W Grieff, Spring, TX (US);
Thomas W Lattin, Jr, Houston, TX (US);
Darren R Thomas, Spring, TX (US);
Stephen M Schultz, Houston, TX (US);
Richard Ewert, Cypress, TX (US);
David L Flower, Tomball, TX (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340584 ; 340588 ; 340653 ; 364185 ; 371 14 ;
Abstract
Temperature sensors are located inside drive chambers where disk drives are located to signal an overheating condition. An overheating condition triggers external alarms and produces an interrupt signal to the disk drive controller, which, in turn, alerts the operating system. If the operating system does not comprehend the problem and take the appropriate action, the controller shuts down the disk drives after a certain period of time.