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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7660069 | Technique for signal and transducer alignment in a tape drive In an embodiment, a method is provided for improving signal and transducer alignment in a magnetic tape drive. The method includes writing a first track and a second track to a tape. Each track has an associated track characteristic, which may include fundamental fr... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7477475 | Helical scan type magnetic tape reproduction apparatus and magnetic tape reproduction method Disclosed herein is a helical scan type magnetic tape reproduction apparatus, including: a helical scan type reproduction head capable of moving in the track widthwise direction by displacement of said actuator itself; target time decision means for measuring a peri... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7474495 | Piezoelectric micro-actuator for magnetic tape read/write head The claimed embodiments provide methods, apparatuses and systems directed to a servo-actuated positioner for a read/write head that uses a piezoelectric super fine actuator that moves the read/write head to maintain alignment with data tracks on a magnetic tape. The... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7362537 | Velocity adaptive compensator for a synchronous sampling time-base servo system Disclosed are a system, a method, and article of manufacture to provide a velocity adaptive compensator for a synchronous sampling servo control system. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7317673 | Apparatus and method for setting offset of digital, video disc, and apparatus and method for adjusting offset An apparatus for setting an offset in a DVD player includes: an offset measuring unit which measures one or more offset parameters for initial reproducing operations of the DVD player; and an offset setting unit which, when the offset measuring unit measures the one... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7310291 | Method and apparatus for tracking error detection in optical disk driver A method and apparatus for tracking error detection in an optical disk reproduction system. The tracking error detecting apparatus generates a tracking error signal as a difference signal of optical detection signals generated by more than two optical detectors posi... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7259927 | Method and apparatus for improving signal-to-noise ratio for hard disk drives A hard disk drive comprising a plurality of read/write heads oriented to serially read data from the magnetic media of the disk drive. The head output signals are delayed and combined to provide a time aligned composite signal for determining the value of the data b... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7212364 | Servo writing a disk drive by synchronizing a servo write clock in response to a sync mark reliability metric A method of writing product servo sectors to a disk of a disk drive is disclosed. A plurality of spiral tracks are written to the disk, wherein each spiral track comprises a high frequency signal interrupted at a predetermined interval by a sync mark. During the pro... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7187515 | Method and system for tracking magnetic media with embedded optical servo tracks A method and system for tracking storage media is provided that includes directing light through a first major side of a magnetic recording tape, wherein the tape includes optically detectable indicia embedded within the tape during formation of the indicia. At leas... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177114 | Apparatus, system, and method for the velocity proportional clocking of time base servo tape storage devices An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for the velocity proportional clocking of time base servo tape storage devices. The apparatus, system, and method allow the velocity of time base servo tape storage devices to be adjusted and maintained by adjusting the... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7161760 | Reproducing apparatus and reproducing method for reproducing data by scanning slant tracks using a plurality of reproducing heads First, data is read from tracks formed on a tape-shaped recording medium by heads disposed on a rotary drum, to measure error rates. Next, of the tracks formed on the tape-shaped recording medium, a worst track suffering the highest error rate is detected based on t... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7158338 | Servo track having periodic frames of tone field and embedded synchronization marks Methods and systems for sensing a position of a transducer head with respect to a storage medium. One method includes generating a read signal from a servo track stored on a magnetic storage medium. The servo track includes servo frames of magnetic flux transitions ... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7130139 | Write velocity identification A drive and method of identifying write velocity during reading are provided. When a track is being read, the data signal is processed prior to determining the data stream to identify the velocity with which the track data were written. The read channel is adjusted ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7119976 | Planar servo format verifier head A planar servo verifier head is provided comprising a plurality of magnetic head elements optimized for the readback process. The plurality of magnetic head elements are fabricated in a planar two-dimensional array in which individual elements can be used to read se... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7106535 | Method and apparatus for maintaining consistent track pitch in helical scan recorder New helical recording scanner architectures and transducing methods provide a consistent track pitch for helical tracks despite positional errors in placement of transducing elements (or sets of transducing elements) from their nominal positioning. The new scanners ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106549 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and magnetic recording medium A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus extracts a record signal from a sum signal (ADD) of signals detected via first and second magnetic detection regions (RH1, RH2) that are formed to be offset in the lengthwise (TL) and widthwise ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095582 | Magnetic tape drive A magnetic tape drive has a servo head for performing the tracking control and a head unit. The head unit includes a recording head group composed of a plurality of recording heads, which are lined up along the width directions with respect to a magnetic tape. In th... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7089736 | Variable nozzle turbo (VNT) solenoid temperature estimator A method of creating a solenoid temperature estimator includes operating a solenoid based on a data point including a plurality of operating parameters and determining a temperature of the solenoid. The method further includes recording steady-state values for the t... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7064919 | Disk storage apparatus In a disk storage apparatus having an actuator for loading/unloading a magnetic head with respect to a magnetic disk, a voltage signal generated when the actuator is driven is detected by a voltage detector, a speed load estimator estimates moving speed of the head ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062092 | System, method, and computer software product for gain adjustment in biological microarray scanner Systems, methods, and computer program products are described for adjusting the gain of a scanner. The scanner includes one or more excitation sources, an emission detector having a first gain, and a variable gain element having a second gain. One described method i... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7035040 | Sequenced time-based servo techniques The invention is directed to servo techniques that make use of sequences of servo marks, rather than individual marks for generation of position error signals. In particular, random or pseudo-random sequences of servo marks may be recorded on the medium in an overla... | 04/25/2006 |
| 6992847 | Linear sliding tape scanner and method for using same An apparatus for helical scan recording/playback of preselected tacks on a flexible tape medium comprising a linear slide structure capable of movement transversely relative to a longitudinal direction of the tape medium, the linear slide structure including a scann... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6980390 | Magnetic media with embedded optical servo tracks A storage medium is provided that includes a magnetic recording tape having a first side and a second side, and a plurality of optically detectable indicia embedded in a servo layer disposed between the first side and the second side of the tape. The optical reflect... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6978414 | Method and apparatus for protecting against errors occurring in data storage device buffers A linear tape data storage device comprises a read head and a write head; a tape transport mechanism for transporting the linear tape data storage medium across the read head and the write head, the device being operated according to a predefined tape format; a DRAM... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6963467 | Method and apparatus for compensating for media shift due to tape guide A method and apparatus for compensating for media shift due to spiral groove roller tape guide is disclosed. The lateral tape shift is measured. Then the control of the coarse actuator is adjusted for the lateral tape shift so that the movement of the coarse actuato... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6958873 | Data rewrite control in data transfer and storage apparatus Apparatus for transferring data from a host computing system to one or more magnetic tape storage devices or the like, the apparatus comprising input apparatus for receiving data and converting it into codeword pairs in a format suitable for storage on the tape, a w... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6950269 | System and methods for using servopositioning signals Servopositioning data is written onto a linear recording medium such that a position error signal is intentionally created. Precise control over the distance between servo signals simulates position error signals at any frequency or magnitude. Drives that normally a... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6922801 | Storage media scanner apparatus and method providing media predictive failure analysis and proactive media surface defect management A method, computer readable medium, apparatus and RAID controller for performing nondestructive write testing is disclosed. For data storage devices divided into sectors, the present invention performs nondestructive write testing by writing data to the sectors, rea... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6906888 | Method for write track placement correction A method for correcting data track placement in a magnetic tape drive is provided. The invention comprises writing at least one data track on a magnetic tape, wherein the data track is written in a location determined by tracking a servo track on the tape. The tape ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6891687 | Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus capable of recording/reproducing data at the same head-cylinder revolving speed/configuration An input signal is recorded in a recording tape α by converting the input signal to a record signal through the modulation performed at the timing corresponding to the previously-specified number of tracks per division of signal by using input-signal converting mea... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6864656 | Magnetic disk drive and voice coil motor drive circuit A magnetic disk drive that drives and positions an actuator using a voice coil motor, includes a current sensing resistor connected in series to a terminal on current input side of the voice coil motor, a first operational amplifier and a second operational amplifie... | 03/08/2005 |
| 6731452 | Data recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method To assure good data playback characteristics even when reading data from a magnetic tape having recording tracks at a narrow pitch, a data recording and/or reproducing apparatus is provided which includes a tape feeder 7 to feed a magnetic tape 100 in ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6571205 | Method and apparatus for transferring information between devices using a tape drive A method and apparatus for transferring information between first and second devices, where the first device includes a tape drive having a tape drive head. A tape head interface is removably positionable adjacent the tape drive head to communicate with t... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6563664 | Magnetic signal recording and reproducing apparatus and magnetic signal recording and reproducing method There are provided an approximately cylindrical rotary drum, a magnetic field applying means and a magnetic field detecting means that are mounted on the rotary drum, signal processing means, and a tracking control means for performing a tracking control ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6512651 | Helical scan tape track following Track positioning of a scanning tape head in a helical tape system may be adversely affected by relative offsets between elements in read element pairs and in write element pairs accessing synchronization patterns. Compensating for variations in the posit... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6510018 | Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus with electronic adjustments of interval between stationary and rotary heads When an operator inserts a standard magnetic tape into the magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus and performs operation for bringing the apparatus into the play mode for checking X value, the tracking value varies in stages, and an external device ... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6349012 | Magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus has compatibility with a conventional analog signal recording/reproducing VTR and can realize an operation mode in which a digital signal is recorded and/or reproduced. During N-times long time recording, ... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6349011 | Automatic tracking system and tracking method An automatic tracking system includes an analog/digital converter for converting an envelope signal detected by scanning a track during reproduction into a digitized envelope signal; a first track center detecting part for processing the entire track as a... | 02/19/2002 |
| 6288864 | Calibration of magnetic tape drive In a method of calibrating a helical scan magnetic tape drive, a dual scan calibration tape having a calibration stripe is loaded into the tape drive. As a head traverses differing paths along the calibration stripe, a series of calibration signal wavefor... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6266204 | Tracking controller for a tape-like recording medium A tracking control apparatus for a tape-shaped recording medium according to this invention is operative, prior to carrying out actual reproduction, to measure times from the time point serving as reference phase position within one period of the rotary d... | 07/24/2001 |
