Bizarre Patents
Nicotine Containing Dental Floss
Keep away cavities and cancer at the same time.
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120008469 | Processing Electromagnetic Films Using a Symmetric Head Assembly Methods and systems for presensitizing film, including providing an assembly of heads comprising N left heads, a center head, and N right heads, each head being configured to effect a corresponding process P, on one or more regions of a film, activating the left heads a... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110211428 | HEAT-ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING WITH SHAPED MAGNETIC AND THERMAL FIELDS TO MINIMIZE TRANSITION CURVATURE Devices and methods are provided for heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR). In an illustrative example, a device includes a magnetic write pole having a convex pole tip; a magnetic opposing pole longitudinally displaced from the magnetic write pole; and a thermal-sour... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110019509 | Limited use data storing device Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a data storage device previously deactivated by modification or degradation of... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100061198 | METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for image processing and an image processing apparatus which are capable of performing repetitive forming and erasing of high-contrast images at high speeds by forming high-density, uniform images and uniforml... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20070242500 | Method and apparatus providing high density data storage A data storage device and methods for storing and reading data are provided. The data storage device includes a data storage medium and second device. The data storage medium has an insulating layer, a first electrode layer over the insulating layer and at least one lay... | 10/18/2007 |
| 20070177466 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproducing method. The method includes, from an information storage medium storing stream data having a plurality of advanced packs each including a resource file and an advanced ID to identify the resource ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070177467 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproducing method. The method includes, from an information storage medium storing stream data having a plurality of advanced packs each including a resource file and an advanced ID to identify the resource ... | 08/02/2007 |
| 20070165492 | Recording type optical disc apparatus and optical disc medium An optical disc apparatus includes an optical head configured to irradiate a light beam to an optical disc medium to record and reproduce data, wherein the optical disc medium has a record track which is divided into an inner circumferential control data recording area,... | 07/19/2007 |
| 20070147187 | Method of using graphite for making hydrophilic articles A water transport plate assembly that is useful in fuel cells includes at least one hydrophilic article such as a flow field layer. A method of making the hydrophilic article includes establishing a hydrophilicity of the article by including a plurality of graphite part... | 06/28/2007 |
| 20070121428 | Information recording apparatus A multilayer optical recording apparatus excellent in high-speed recording and long-term reliability is realized, the apparatus preventing the lowering of a speed of switching recording layers by preventing an increase in contact resistance attributable to wear of a rol... | 05/31/2007 |
| 20070115761 | DISPLAYING STORAGE INFORMATION ON PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICE A portable storage device includes a connector configured for operatively connecting to a host and a storage medium. The storage medium includes a data area for storing data, and an information area configured to store memory information relating to file resource alloca... | 05/24/2007 |
| 20070109919 | Light-condensing head and storage apparatus A light-condensing head has a light source unit, a light-condensing element that condenses the light emitted from the light source unit, and an electrically conductive scatterer that, when irradiated with light, produces localized plasmon at the light condensation posit... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070091731 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS A basic data structure in a lead-in area is made coincident with each other in all of a read only type, write once type, and a rewritable type. The lead-in area is divided into a system lead-in area and a data lead-in area. A track pit and a pit pitch of pits in the sys... | 04/26/2007 |
| 20070086316 | Information recording/reproducing method and apparatus for same When external and internal environmental variation factors (characteristics of medium, variation in voltage, deterioration of medium and the like) occur, a reproduced signal is varied. In a learning system for reproduction of a voltage layer selection type multi-layer o... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070053242 | CREATION METHOD AND CONVERSION METHOD OF CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM WRITING DATA, AND WRITING METHOD OF CHARGED PARTICLE BEAM A creation method of charged particle beam writing data for writing a pattern using a charged particle beam based on design data of circuits includes creating, based on the design data, a location data file including location data, as part of the writing data, the locat... | 03/08/2007 |
| 20070036039 | Method for image processing and image processing apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a method for image processing and an image processing apparatus which are capable of performing repetitive forming and erasing of high-contrast images at high speeds by forming high-density, uniform images and uniforml... | 02/15/2007 |
| 20070002694 | Guiding optical beam to optically writable surface An optical mechanism includes an optical beam-generating mechanism and a light pipe. The optical-beam generating mechanism is to generate an optical beam. The light pipe is to guide the optical beam to an optically writable surface. ... | 01/04/2007 |
| 20060233060 | Information recording and reproducing apparatus, information recording medium and information recording apparatus An information recording and reproducing apparatus is constituted by a recording medium including at least a substrate, a reflection layer disposed on the substrate, and a recording layer disposed so as to interpose the reflection layer between the substrate and the rec... | 10/19/2006 |
| 20060221777 | Radially non-collinear track starting positions on label side of optical disc A method for labeling an optically writable label side of an optical disc of one embodiment of the invention is disclosed which includes at least one of the following. First, the method may multiply pass over a track of the optically writable label side of the optical d... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060198250 | Determination of optimum writing strategy for recording information onto optical information recording medium The invention is to provide a method for determining an optimum writing strategy for an optical information recording system to record information onto an optical information recording medium. According to a preferred embodiment of the method of the invention, a determi... | 09/07/2006 |
| 20060158976 | Magneto-optical disc device and method for writing data on magneto-optical disc A magneto-optical disc device (1) writes data, for each sector, onto a magneto-optical disc (2) using an optical head portion (21) which outputs light onto the magneto-optical disc, at which time the data on the magneto-optical disc (2) is er... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060140096 | Optical recording method, optical recording apparatus and optical storage medium Data is recorded in a phase-change optical storage medium having a beam-incident surface and a plurality of data layers provided over the surface, each data layer having at least a recording film. Data to be recorded is modulated to generate modulated data. Desired mark... | 06/29/2006 |
| 20060126486 | Optical information recording medium A phase-change optical information recording medium in which information can be recorded, reproduced and rewritten and which includes a first transparent substrate having a wobbling guide groove which is spirally formed thereon at a pitch; a first dielectric layer locat... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060114755 | Deterring theft of optical media An optical media disk is treated with a light-sensitive material that impedes the ability of a optical media player from reading data stored on the disk. This light-sensitive material is a material changes phase upon exposure to one or more wavelengths of light. During ... | 06/01/2006 |
| 20060087922 | Apparatus and method of initializing phase-change optical disk Provided is an apparatus and method of initializing a recording layer used in manufacturing a phase-change optical disk for storing information. The optical disk is initialized using a UV lamp in order to initialize the recording layer of the phase-change optical disk c... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20060087921 | Phase change memory A phase change memory comprises a phase-change recording layer for recording information through changing between a crystal phase and an amorphous phase; and a means for applying a tensile strain onto the phase-change recording layer, thereby providing the memory having... | 04/27/2006 |
| 20060077884 | Phase-change information recording medium, manufacturing method for the same, sputtering target, method for using the phase-change information recording medium and optical recording apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a phase-change information recording medium, and the like, which is easy to perform initial crystallization, exhibits good recording sensitivity at a linear velocity as high as 10 double speeds or more with as much cap... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060077765 | Super resolution information storage medium, method of making reproducing signal stable, and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on/from the super resolution information storage medium A super resolution information storage medium, a method of making reproducing signals stable, and an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data on a super resolution information storage medium. The information storage medium on which information is recorded as mark... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060075417 | Electromagnetic field generating element, information recording/reproducing head, and information recording/reproducing apparatus The present invention provides an electromagnetic field generating element, an information recording/reproducing head, and an information recording/reproducing apparatus. The electromagnetic field generating element makes it possible to restrain magnetic field attenuati... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060072442 | Phase change materials for storage media Phase-change compounds, and optical storage recording media, for recording and/or storage of data, comprising such compounds, according to the formula XSbySz; wherein X is selected from the group consisting of K, Rb, Ti, Na, Li, Cs and mixtures the... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060072377 | Domain expansion rom media with adapted domain shape for improved readout The present invention relates to a domain expansion storage medium and manufacturing method with improved readout performance. The substrate of the storage medium and/or its storage layer is processed to define a predetermined shape of magnetic domains, adapted to the f... | 04/06/2006 |
| 20060044946 | Processing sheme for domain expansion rom media The present invention relates to a domain expansion storage medium and processing method for processing a storage medium to obtain an improved readout performance. The magnetic properties of a storage layer (50) of the storage medium are altered by an ion beam pr... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20060028924 | Wireless activation system and method A system and method for wireless activation of a target. A communication device transmits an ID associated with the target to a network operations center. The network operations center provides an activation signal to the communication device. The communication device w... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060028923 | Method and apparatus for dynamic readout decision level adjustment for use in domain expansion reading The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for reading a magneto-optical domain expansion recording medium (10) wherein the size of a spatial copy window of a domain copying process is controlled in that a predetermined reading parameter is varied... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20060013076 | Magnetooptic element and process for fabricating the same and optical isolator incorporating it A magnetic optical element having a Faraday rotator and a polarizer provided integrally on the light transmitting surface of the Faraday rotator; the magnetic optical element being characterized by being constituted of i) a Faraday rotator on each side of which an anti-... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20060007790 | Magneto-optical device In a magneto-optical device in which a laser (1) is directed through a coil (5) during operation, the coil itself is used as a measurement device for measuring the alignment of coil and laser by measuring the resistance of the coil as a function of the ali... | 01/12/2006 |
| 20060002243 | Manufacturing method for magneto optical recording medium A magneto optical recording medium capable of stable recording and readout using a DWDD system is provided. The magneto optical recording medium of the present invention comprises an optical disk substrate and a multilayer recording film comprising essentially a readout... | 01/05/2006 |
| 20050289577 | Data writing with plasmon resonator A data writing system includes an array of cells for storing data and a write transducer that moves over a selected cell in the array of cells. The write transducer includes a writer producing a write magnetic field that intersects the selected cell. The write transduce... | 12/29/2005 |
| 20050249053 | Magneto-optical storage medium and optical disk drive A magneto-optical storage medium that protects against the effects of cross-talk, making it possible to further reduce the level of track density, and which also makes it possible to conduct high-density recording/playback with a reduced magnetic field for erasure and a... | 11/10/2005 |
| 20050232087 | Magnetic head device and magneto-optical disc apparatus A magnetic head device includes a head main body for applying a magnetic field to an information recording medium; a connecting member including a main part and an elastic part connected to the main part, the elastic part supporting the head main body such that the head... | 10/20/2005 |
