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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6608808 | Pseudo telecentric optical storage system An electro-optical storage system based on air-bearing-suspended optical head in a near-field configuration. The optical head effects a lens having front and rear focal planes. The head is spaced from an optical medium by a fraction of a wavelength. An im... | 08/19/2003 |
| 6587427 | Magneto-optical recording medium A magneto-optical recording medium in a near-field optical storage system is provided. A flying optical head is suspended over the medium by a cushion of gas. The medium includes a magneto-optical recording layer including at least one recording track for... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6583951 | Shuttle motion mechanism A method and an apparatus to provide controlled horizontal and vertical movements of a disk shuttle inside a disk drive, and also to open/close an access door on the shuttle for accessing one or more recording media inside the shuttle.... | 06/24/2003 |
| 6580675 | Laser driver for an optical recording system A laser driver circuit for a light source in an optical recording system to maintain the read current at a substantially constant level. This circuit can reduce a recovery transient time for a transition from the write mode to the read mode.... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6560192 | Method and apparatus for dampening disk vibrations Method and apparatus for dampening resonant vibrations of a disk drive. The apparatus includes a disk cartridge including a top shell and a bottom shell forming an enclosure. A disk is contained within the enclosure where the inner surfaces of the top and... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6544716 | Multilayer optical medium for near-field optical recording and reading An electro-optical storage system based on an optical head and a multilayer storage medium in a near-field configuration. The heat generated by absorption of a read/write beam adversely affects the interfacing between the optical head and the medium. The ... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6545969 | Monolithic optical head A monolithic optical head facilitates reading and writing optical data on an optical recording medium. The optical head includes a monolithic substrate formed of an optically transparent material. The substrate has a first side and a second flat side oppo... | 04/08/2003 |
| 6522617 | Optical head with monolithic layer for optical storage Optical heads having a monolithic layer for interfacing storage media and methods for manufacturing such heads. In one embodiment, the substrate has first and second surfaces to define a through hole which forms an optical path and a lens with a spherical... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6515959 | Ramp motion mechanism A method and an apparatus for providing a highly repeatable loading/unloading pathway for a read/write head of a disk drive.... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6504805 | Track identification generation for optical disk A wedge data writer writes wedge data, including track identification information, that are spatially-aligned along the radial direction of an optical disk. The wedge data are written at the beginning of a wedge when at least one radial groove or pit mold... | 01/07/2003 |
| 6462349 | Measuring spacing between two surfaces via evanescent coupling A near-field optical system having a mechanism to determine a spacing between an optical surface and a reflective surface that are spaced by less one wavelength by using coupled radiation energy that has an evanescently-coupled portion.... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6420692 | Zig-zag-patterned position sensor system An optical position detector which has adjacent detector cells connected to each other in a zig-zag pattern offers a wider dynamic range than a detector with a vertical separation line during transition between a read laser power and a write laser power. ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6407884 | Optical head with solid immersion lens and varying cross section coil An optical recording head is provided which includes a slider body having a leading edge. A void is formed in the slider body to receive a sphere of optically transparent material. The sphere is inserted into the void such that a portion of the sphere pro... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6396783 | Mechanism for controlling spacing between optical head and storage medium in optical storage systems An optical disk drive having a thermal control mechanism on the optical head to control the spacing between the optical head and the surface of the storage medium.... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6357098 | Methods and devices for positioning and bonding elements to substrates Devices and techniques for placing and bonding identical elements to holes in a substrate where spacer balls and a reference surface are used to achieve the desired accuracy.... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6243350 | Optical storage systems with flying optical heads for near-field recording and reading Optical storage systems based on air-bearing-suspended optical heads in a near-field configuration. Such a system comprises an optical head for reading and writing data and a head positioning system, an optics module including beam relay optics and signal... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6154441 | Method for centering a hub in an optical disc, and an optical storage system using such disc Optical storage system including a disc drive and an optical media having a low radial total indicated runout and method of manufacturing such media. The optical media includes a disc substrate having a formatted surface and a center hole. A disc alignmen... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6130864 | Method and apparatus for generating magnetic field for magneto-optic recording system A system for generating a magnetic field for magneto-optic recording that includes a near-field lens, a coil etched or plated into the bottom surface of the lens forming a coil layer, an insulating layer coupled to the coil layer, and a transparent conduc... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6111840 | Reducing phase distortion in a near-field optical data storage system An electro-optical storage system based on a near-field configuration having phase-distortion reducing mechanism. The system comprises a read/write head and a head positioning system, an optics module including beam relay optics and signal detectors, an o... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6069853 | Head including a heating element for reducing signal distortion in data storage systems A device for retrieving data from or writing data to a storage medium that includes a heating element to reduce signal distortion in a data storage system. The device includes a head having an interfacing surface that faces a medium surface of the storage... | 05/30/2000 |
| 6061322 | Optical storage system having optical head with a solid immersion lens and operating on media with at least two recording layers A system for reading or writing data from or to a bilevel optical recording medium with a flying head. The system includes a head having a slider and a solid immersion lens mounted at least partially within the slider. The solid immersion lens has a parti... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6055222 | Near field optical head having a solid immersion lens that is fixed relative to an objective lens A head for a disk drive for reading data from and/or writing data to an optical recording medium, having a slider with a channel surface and an air-bearing surface, an optical clear path through the slider, a solid immersion lens mounted at least partiall... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6009064 | Optical head having dielectric transition layer in near-field optical storage system An electro-optical storage system based on an air-bearing-suspended optical head and operated in a near-field configuration. The system comprises a read/write head and a head positioning system, an optics module including beam relay optics and signal dete... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5963532 | Polarization rotation and phase compensation in near-field electro-optical system An electro-optical storage system based on a near-field configuration having phase-distortion reducing mechanism. The system comprises a read/write head and a head positioning system, an optics module including beam relay optics and signal detectors, an o... | 10/05/1999 |
| 5936928 | Multilayer media and use with flying head having solid immersion lens A system for reading or writing data from or to a bilevel optical recording medium with a flying head. The system includes a head having a slider and a solid immersion lens mounted at least partially within the slider. The solid immersion lens has a parti... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5881042 | Flying head with solid immersion lens partially mounted on a slider A head for a disk drive for reading data from and/or writing data to an optical recording medium, having a slider with a channel surface and an air-bearing surface, an optical clear path through the slider, a solid immersion lens mounted at least partiall... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5828482 | Apparatus and method for directing a beam of light to a surface of an optical disk An apparatus is used with an optical disk drive for directing a beam of light to a surface of an optical disk. The apparatus has a beam shifter configured to direct the beam from a first path (along which the beam is generated) to a second path which is s... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5793584 | Device and method for electrostatically cleaning a disk mounted in a removable cartridge A disk cartridge assembly includes an enclosure, a recording disk mounted for rotation in the enclosure, and an electrostatic cleaning element positioned on an interior surface of the enclosure. The cleaning element engages one side of the disk at least w... | 08/11/1998 |
