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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7365408 | Structure for photolithographic applications using a multi-layer anti-reflection coating A bi-layer anti-reflective coating for use in photolithographic applications, and specifically, for use in ultraviolet photolithographic processes. The bi-layered anti-reflective coating is used to minimize pattern distortion due to reflections from neighboring feat... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7324996 | Digital data transfer authorization method and apparatus A method and/or apparatus for digital data delivery of hypermedia and/or datafiles including proprietary content. An operative of the method provides authorization of access a1). Remote authorization is provided a4), providing critical dissemination to... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7281851 | Spindle device utilizing externally pressurized gas bearing assembly There is provided a spindle device utilizing an externally pressurized gas bearing assembly, in which the center of a pulse disc of a rotary encoder can be adjusted to minimize an unbalance of the weight of the pulse disc and such unbalance can be adjusted easily to... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7124420 | Pickup device having a heat-radiation path A communication hole (55) is provided in a pickup base (51). A laser light source (61) is provided at an end of the communication hole (55). A grating (71) is provided at another end of the communication hole (55). The commu... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7072570 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus and control method thereof Provided are: a turn table for storing a disk shaped recording medium Dn to be vertically placed; a disk drive unit disposed at the center part of the table, the disk drive unit mounting a recording medium Dn to record and/or reproduce an information signal SIN; dis... | 07/04/2006 |
| 6633531 | Optical disk drive An optical disk drive having an optical disk that permits transmission of a laser beam, an optical disk holding mechanism configured to rotatably support the optical disk, a first laser beam irradiation mechanism disposed on one side of the optical disk, ... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6407975 | Optical disk drive An optical disk drive includes two object optical systems, two carriages which respectively carry the object optical system and are movable along surfaces of an optical disk. Separated from the carriages, a separate optical unit (including a laser source ... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6373811 | Optical pick-up apparatus An optical pick-up apparatus according to the invention optically performs at least one of selective recording of information onto a plurality of recording layers of a plurality of optical recording mediums arranged in layers, and selective reproduction o... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6240059 | Off-axis optical pickup mechanism for dual-sided optical storage discs An off-axis optical pickup mechanism for dual-sided optical storage discs comprises an optical pickup unit (OPU) connected to an optical pipe. A baffle is provided which surrounds the OPU and a cover is provided which is placed on top of the baffle. To be... | 05/29/2001 |
| 5787066 | Both-sided optical disc player capable of transferring a both-sided disc up and down about an optical pickup A both-sided optical disc player for recording/reproducing information on a both-sided disc includes a disc deck having a turntable being shaft-supported by a spindle motor to be rotated for driving the disc and an optical pickup slidably connected on the... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5521899 | Optical disk apparatus for mechanically restricting the distance between an optical disk and an optical head An optical disk cartridge and an optical disk apparatus wherein, whether or not an optical disk has a different thickness, the distances of a pair of optical heads to a pair of recording faces of the optical disk can be set readily with a high degree of a... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5502697 | Disc processing apparatus having rotatable stocker and moving drive unit A drive unit having an input/output port for loading and/or unloading a cartridge therethrough and for reading and/or writing information on a disc; a stocker arranged to be confronted with the input/output port of the drive port and having a plurality of... | 03/26/1996 |
| 5434843 | Pickup turnover apparatus of a disk player A pickup turnove apparatus of a disk player of a new turn-type in which a U-shape shuttle device acting as a pickup turnover means is provided at the rear of a pickup feeding plate of the disk player and turned over from a lower position to an upper posit... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5311497 | Pickup feeding apparatus for a double-sided reproducing disc player An optical pickup can be inverted accurately and smoothly regardless of the skew operation of the optical pickup. The present invention is directed to a disc player in which a single optical pickup (37) is inverted in an opposing relation to both surfaces... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5307336 | Multi-disk optical storage system An optical storage system comprises a disk assembly, an optical assembly and a carriage assembly arranged to provide a high-performance, multiple-disk storage device. The disk assembly includes a plurality of disks axially spaced on a rotatably mounted sp... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5289449 | Circuit for controlling optical pickup position in optical disc apparatus after power is turned off A circuit for controlling the optical pickup position in an optical disc reproducing apparatus is constructed such that when the power is applied, a user recognizes the position of the pickup which is used to pickup information from a disc with informatio... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5263013 | Apparatus for recording/reproducing of a double-sided optic disk An apparatus for recording/reproducing of a double-sided optic disk includes a main pickup which supplies a light beam and detects a reflected light beam for recording/reproducing from one side of an optic disk. After completing the recording/reproducing ... | 11/16/1993 |
| 5257111 | Continuous both-side playback type video disc apparatus A continuous both-side playback type video disc apparatus having an external command signal generator for generating an external command signal to an external recorder in response to a playback start signal or a lead-in or lead-out track detection signal ... | 10/26/1993 |
| 5255260 | Optical recording apparatus employing stacked recording media with spiral grooves and floating optical heads The apparatus includes optical recording media each of which includes a single plate substrate with recording layers and spiral grooves formed on both sides of the substrate and which are available for recording and reproduction or for recording, erasing ... | 10/19/1993 |
| 5251201 | Optical disk device An optical disk device of the type having two optical heads for accessing both sides of an optical disk at the same time. The device has a loading mechanism which moves two subbases each carrying one of the two heads therewith in opposite directions, i.e.... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5235591 | Stack type optical disc apparatus, sealed and separate type optical head therefor and optical disc medium A separation type optical head according to the present invention includes at least a light source portion for emitting collimated beams, a focusing device (a focusing lens) for focusing the collimated beams onto an information recording surface of an opt... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5208798 | Double-sided disk player A double-sided playing disc player is disclosed in which recorded signals are reproduced from a disc, on both faces of which signals are recorded, by a pickup disposed on the side of a turntable (4) or another pickup disposed on the side opposite to the t... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5189652 | Multi-disc recording and reproducing apparatus having detachable optical head units A stationary type optical disc apparatus which includes a housing, a plurality of disc media contained in the housing and arranged in parallel to each other, a plurality of head units detachably inserted into the housing along rails formed in parallel to ... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5172370 | Disk reproducing apparatus equipped with a pickup device capable of reading both sides of a disk A disk reproducing device that has two guide rails disposed at both sides of a disk and that reads data recorded on both sides of the disk using a single pickup device (21) by moving the pickup device along the guide rails. Each guide rail is composed of ... | 12/15/1992 |
| 5157648 | Optical disc player A disc player for playing a first disc having data recorded on both sides thereof and also a second disc having data recorded on only one side thereof has disc drive means loadable with one of the first and second discs selectively. Whether the disc loade... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5121379 | Dual side disc player having separate centering hubs for each side of the disc A double-sided playing disc player is disclosed in which recorded signals are reproduced from a disc, on both faces of which signals are recorded, by a pickup disposed on the side of a turntable (4) or another pickup disposed on the side opposite to the t... | 06/09/1992 |
| 5105418 | Disk drive with means to play either side of a disk A disk drive according to a first embodiment includes a pickup movable along a radial direction of the disk and a reversing mechanism for moving the pickup from one side of the disk to the other side by rotating the pickup about an axis corresponding to t... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5097465 | Double-side playing optical disk player A double-side playing optical disk player which plays both sides of a disk placed on a turntable by driving and guiding a carriage carrying an optical pickup with a guide driving mechanism along both surfaces of the disk. The guide driving mechanism is co... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5081618 | Double-sided reproducing disk player A double-sided reproducing disk player wherein reduction in size and simplification in structure of a carriage can be attained and reduction in number of parts and simplification in construction of the entire arrangement can be attained to attain reductio... | 01/14/1992 |
| 5025440 | Dual side disc player having a pickup reversing mechanism A double-sided playing disc player is disclosed in which recorded signals are reproduced from a disc, on both faces of which signals are recorded, by a pickup disposed on the side of a turntable or another pickup disposed on the side opposite to the turnt... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4980880 | Method and apparatus for simultaneously reading both sides of an optical storage disk An optical storage disk reading apparatus (10) allows the simultaneous reading of both sides of an optical storage disk (44). An upper base plate (12) and a lower base plate (14) pivot about hinges (22-28) through the action of lead screws (30-32). The le... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4953154 | Pickup transport device for optical disc apparatus To accurately move a pickup 31 along a radial line of an optical disc in an optical disc apparatus for recording signals on both sides of the disc or reproducing the signals from the both sides, the pickup 31 is mounted on a support base 30 coupled to tra... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4949328 | Disk player for playing both sides of a disk or multiple disks without ejection thereof and a disk player with a disk being played that overlaps disks stored in a storage receptor A front loading type disk player which can play both sides of a single disk without ejecting the disk from and reinserting it into the disk player after playing one side. In addition, the disk player can play one or both sides of multiple disks without ej... | 08/14/1990 |
| 4926403 | Magneto-optic recording apparatus for recording information selectively on both sides of the recording medium A magneto-optical recording system comprises a first optical system carried by a first focusing actuator disposed at a first side of a magneto-optical recording medium and second optical system carried by a second focusing actuator disposed at a second si... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4926409 | Optical permitting record/playback from both sides of an optical disk An optical assembly of an optical recording/reproducing apparatus for focusing an optical beam produced by a light source on a recording medium and for directing the optical beam reflected back from the recording medium to detectors comprises a first opti... | 05/15/1990 |
| 4903140 | Apparatus for reproducing signals from both sides of discs An apparatus for reproducing signals from both sides of a disc which comprises a detector for detecting that the signal reproduction side of the disc opposed to the pickup is being changed over from one side to the other side, and a device for notifying t... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4896309 | Optical disc player with phase shift dependent on disk rotation direction A signal reproducing system for use in an optical disc player comprises a photodetector including at least first and second photodetecting elements which are so disposed that a beam spot is formed on the first and second photodetecting elements by a light... | 01/23/1990 |
| 4888751 | Image information processing apparatus An image information processing apparatus comprises a rotational shaft for supporting five optical disks, subjected to read or write access, at predetermined intervals along its central axis, and two optical units, each having an optical head rotatable th... | 12/19/1989 |
| 4845700 | Front loading disc player A front loading disc player plays back both sides of a loaded disc without ejecting and reloading the disc. The front loading disc player has a playback unit disposed in a player housing and having a turntable and an optical pickup, and a disc transfer me... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4839881 | Pickup transport device for optical disc apparatus To accurately move a pickup 31 along a radial line of an optical disc in an optical disc apparatus for recording signals on both sides of the disc or reproducing the signals from the both sides, the pickup 31 is mounted on a support base 30 coupled to tra... | 06/13/1989 |
