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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband
A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8159770 | Apparatus and method to transfer data to and from a sequential information storage medium A sequential information storage medium, comprising a plurality of servo patterns encoded lengthwise thereon, wherein each servo pattern encodes at least one LPOS bit and comprises a width less than 187 microns. ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8130461 | Systems and methods for compensating for crosstalk between nearby writers A recording system controller according to one embodiment includes a controller capable of selecting a level of a current or voltage applied to a first writer during the creation of a magnetic transition based on a current in at least one nearby writer. A recording ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 7724459 | Method for reading data from a magnetic recordign tape A method for reading data from a magnetic recording tape having multiple adjacent data tracks according to one embodiment includes simultaneously detecting signals from a plurality of read devices, at least some of the read devices being positioned over multiple dat... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7679854 | Head switch operation for a disk drive A disk drive for implementing a head switch operation is disclosed. The disk drive comprises: an actuator; a first head and a second head attached to the actuator; a disk having a plurality of tracks; and a processor. The processor controls operations in the disk dr... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7646558 | Positioning system and method for a transducer head In one embodiment of a system and method for positioning a transducer head, the transducer head includes a first group of elements for reading data from or writing data to a set of tracks on a storage medium, and a second group of elements for reading data from or w... | 01/12/2010 |
| 7474488 | Magnetic head, tape drive system, and method A system such as a tape head having multiple read devices, where the read devices have less than or equal to half the width of the write devices or data tracks. The read devices are aligned adjacent to one another in the track width direction. Data tracks and guide ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7466506 | Magnetic recording disk drive with head positioning servo control system for disk surfaces with identical servo patterns A magnetic recording disk drive has disks with identical pre-patterned servo patterns on their front and back surfaces and a servo control system for positioning the read/write heads using the servo signals from the identical servo patterns. The servo sectors on the... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7436614 | Data storage device and data storage device control Embodiments of the invention provide a data storage device and its control method that are capable of minimizing the possibility of head deterioration while maintaining the minimum required sustained data rate. In one embodiment, each track is divided into three are... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7379257 | Magnetic disk drive A magnetic disk drive includes an actuator arm, a suspension fixed to a tip end of the actuator arm, and a head slider having at least two electromagnetic transducers mounted at a tip end of the suspension. The head slider has a first electromagnetic transducer incl... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372651 | Introducing a noise signal into a read-back signal when data is written to a removable data storage medium In one exemplary embodiment, a noise signal is introduced into a read-back signal when data is written to a removable data storage medium. While writing the data to the removable data storage medium, a portion of the data written to the removable data storage medium... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370342 | Method and apparatus for delivery of targeted video programming A system residing preferably in a television set-top box monitors the television watching habits of one or more viewers and creates one or more profiles for each viewers descriptive of various characteristics of each viewers, including television watching preference... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359134 | Data save processing method for disk storage device and disk storage system A disk storage device has a plurality of disk faces and a plurality of heads. The disk storage device protects the data on the disk face for a head before the defect of the head occurs. For each head, a table for accumulating the error generation count generated by ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355808 | Method and apparatus for partial self-servo writing using servo wedge propagation A method and apparatus for partial self-servo writing a disk surface in a disk drive using servo wedge propagation is provided. In one embodiment, servo information is written by a servo track writer near an outer diameter of the disk surface. The servo information ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355805 | Magnetic tape and method of manufacturing magnetic tape, servo writer, and method of and apparatus for specifying servo band Data for specifying servo bands SB1 to SB5 is embedded in each servo signal S1 to S5 that is written on a plurality of servo bands SB1 to SB5 formed on a magnetic tape MT. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342748 | System with matrix array of write heads and matrix array of magnetoresistive (MR) read heads The invention provides a system comprising a non-linear array of magnetoresistive (MR) heads arranged in a two-dimensional matrix for reading information stored on magnetic media. The non-linear array of MR heads may comprise a planar array formed by a plurality of ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339760 | Integrated bias and offset recovery amplifier A preamplifier circuit is connected to a transducing head, and has integrated bias circuitry and offset recovery circuitry. The offset recovery circuitry is activated in response to a transition from write mode to read more to provide an output signal representative... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334165 | Signal processing apparatus and a data recording and reproducing apparatus including local memory processor In a data recovery processing, the conventional overhead, primarily, latency due to a rotational recording media is removed. Secondary, in a signal processing or in a recording and reproducing apparatus, reliability of data reproduction is improved by repeatedly pro... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334081 | System and method for optimizing sequential XOR command performance An RPO algorithm in a HDD coalesces LBA-sequential XOR commands in pipes, and passes the pipes to a lower level execution engine. The execution engine executes XOR reads and write separately to optimize performance using head and/or cylinder skew information to appr... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324301 | Striping data simultaneously across multiple platter surfaces A hard disk drive comprises an actuator with independently movable arms and a printed circuit board with custom core electronic architecture. The drive also comprises one or more platters aggregating two or more platter surfaces whereupon data may be read from or wr... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7319808 | Input-output circuit, recording apparatus and reproduction apparatus for digital video signal A video signal input-output circuit and a recording-reproduction apparatus in which a digitally compressed video signal input in packet form can be recorded and reproduced efficiently and in stable fashion. In this apparatus, a clock reference is detected from a pac... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7283317 | Apparatuses and methods for pre-erasing during manufacture of magnetic tape The present invention relates to direct current (“DC”) pre-erasing servo channels of a magnetic tape prior to writing servo data in a servo channel. The present invention particularly relates to those servo recordings which were written with a uni-polar current ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280298 | Thin film magnetic head fit to recordation of higher frequency A set of coils wind around a magnetic core in a thin film magnetic head. Current supplying circuits are separately connected to the individual coils. The individual coils get shorter in the overall length as compared with the case where a set of coils consist of a s... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7280309 | Access performance adjusting method and storage apparatus An access performance adjusting method is adapted to a storage apparatus having a storage to prestore a skew quantity that is used to shift a data write starting position of each track of a recording medium depending on a head moving time required to move a head fro... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7281156 | System and method for writing data to a disk drive assembly to minimize the effect of a single head failure A method of writing data to a disk drive system including a plurality of disks and a plurality of heads, each head for writing data to a plurality of sectors on a surface of one of the plurality of disks, the method including: A. b... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7271970 | Composite magnetic head arranged so the reproducing elements do not overlap a pole of a recording element A conventional magnetic head has a structure, in which a MR element and a recording element are stacked. The influence of a recording magnetic field on the magnetically sensitive portion of a reproduction element is lessened and the performance of the MR element is ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7259932 | Magnetic disk unit In a magnetic disk unit, a number of heads that is settable to a usable setting is less than a maximum number of heads providable in the magnetic disk unit. The magnetic disk unit includes a storage part to provide a buffer region that is usable as a data buffer, a ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7253986 | System and method for deconvolution of multiple data tracks A system and method for reading a magnetic medium having a data band thereon, the data band comprising a plurality of simultaneously written data tracks and at least one alignment band. The system in one embodiment includes a plurality of adjacent readers for simult... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245448 | Information recording apparatus and data writing control device therefor A plurality of recording media combined integrally having a plurality of recording surfaces; and a plurality sets of reading heads and writing heads, combined integrally, provided for the respective ones of the plurality of recording surfaces, are provided. Upon wri... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7239465 | Multiple section head assembly for dual azimuth recording A magnetic head assembly for writing multiple tracks to a tape that travels in a first direction is provided. The assembly includes a first head section for writing a first subset of the tracks, and a second head section for writing a second subset of the tracks. Fu... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7239775 | High repetition rate, linear, true time optical delay line An optical delay line for use with an optical source including input/output optics optically coupled to the optical source and a curved mirror with a reflective surface that is centered about an evolute curve of the delay line to retro-reflect light traveling along ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7240276 | Method and apparatus for turbo coding and decoding in a disk drive A read channel carrying out turbo coding/iterative decoding is disclosed in a disk drive. The read channel has an iterative decoder including an APP decoder which changes a likelihood equation according to a detection result of a burst noise detection unit so as to ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7224655 | Apparatus method for detecting tilt at inner and outer circumference and determining tilt degree based on times when focus error signals are detected An apparatus and method for detecting a tilted disc, and an apparatus and method for reproducing data from the tilted disc are provided. The method for detecting a tilted disc comprises: radiating light on a predetermined location at the inner circumference of an op... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7212368 | Head switching method and system using track number matching A method and system of switching heads in a hard disk drive written using an off-line STW method. In the method, first, deviations between a reference head and each of the heads are calculated. Next, a mapping table having the deviations between the reference head a... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206170 | Thin film servo head apparatus with canted servo gaps A thin film servo head apparatus is described that provides verification of time-based servo marks on a magnetic tape. The thin film servo head apparatus includes a plurality of thin film servo heads formed in a substrate. The substrate is canted such that servo gap... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7193812 | Recording head compensation for tape shrinkage and expansion A recording head to simultaneously read or write data to and from a plurality of tracks on magnetic tape, while compensating for shrinkage or expansion caused by moisture, temperature, creep caused by tension in the tape, creep caused by dimensional instability of t... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7190537 | Self-raid system using hard disk drive having backup head and method of writing data to and reading data from hard disk drive having backup head A self-Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) system using a hard disk drive having a backup head and a method of writing data to and reading data from the hard disk drive having the backup head are provided. A self-RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) s... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7178794 | Fluid isolator assembly and floating elastomeric damping element An isolator apparatus is described to attenuate or isolate vibration. The isolator apparatus includes a fluid isolator assembly including a flexible diaphragm and a pressure chamber having a flow passage opened to the pressure chamber to provide a fluid spring. A fl... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7158337 | Method and apparatus for providing positional information on a disk The present invention is a method and apparatus for positioning a read/write head in a hard disk drive. The method comprises providing a disk having a at least one side with a plurality of tracks, where each of the tracks has a servo field with servo bits. The servo... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7154688 | Disk device having a function to confirm that a selected head is proper for a disk surface In a disk device in which heads are positioned by a servo mechanism, the object of the present invention is to prevent data from being destroyed by incorrect selection of a head and to improve reliability in recording or reproducing information and to prevent format... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152800 | Preamplifier system having programmable resistance A biasing scheme is disclosed that helps reduce current noise in an associated device, such as, for example, a magneto-resistive device. The biasing scheme provides for setting a resistance path in a preamplifier, which is operative to energize the associated device... | 12/26/2006 |
