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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8134905 | Information storage device and storage media In an information memory apparatus having minute areas for storing information arranged in x, y and z directions three-dimensionally, parallel rays are irradiated to a memory area MA in a direction perpendicular to a z-axis to take projection images of the memory ar... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8000203 | Apparatus for recording information onto surface using electron beam An electron beam recording apparatus is disclosed that records information onto the surface of a sample by using an electron beam. The electron beam recording apparatus includes an electron source that irradiates the electron beam, a magnetic detector that is config... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7965606 | Information recording method and information recording apparatus To provide a new recording method and recording apparatus with respect to an optical recording medium, the recording method and recording apparatus being able to deal with a high density of an optical recording medium of recent years. Recording of a recording track ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7929396 | Electron beam applying apparatus and drawing apparatus An electron beam applying apparatus includes: a thermal field emission type electron source emitting an electron beam; an electrostatic lens disposed immediately below the electron source and acting as a condensing electrode for condensing the electron beam in a fir... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7924678 | Recording/reproducing head, recording/reproducing apparatus, recording method, and reproducing method A recording/reproducing head includes a laminated body facing to a recording medium, the body including a first conductive layer, a first insulating layer and a second conductive layer which are sequentially stacked. The first conductive layer generates electrons an... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7606132 | Cantilever-type near-field probe for optical data storage and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed are a cantilever-type near-field probe capable of easily improving an optical throughput and being applied to a head of an optical data storage and a method of manufacturing the same. An oxide film is formed on a silicon substrate having dielectric films f... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7525893 | Electron beam recorder and electron beam irradiation position detecting method An electron beam recorder includes an electron optical system for irradiating an electron beam on a master of an information recording medium and an electron beam irradiation position detecting unit for detecting an irradiation position of the electron beam in the e... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522506 | Memory A memory that includes a controller and a media including first information is provided. A first read/write mechanism is provided including an electron emitter configured to read the first information. The controller is configured to receive a first signal generated... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7436748 | Storage device and method for operating a storage device A storage device and a method for operating a storage device. A storage medium for storing data in form of marks is scanned by at least one probe in a scanning mode. A control unit provides a pulsed reading signal for data detecting purposes in said scanning mode. S... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7403467 | Storage device and method for scanning a storage medium A storage device and a method for scanning a storage medium. A storage medium for storing data in the form of marks is scanned by an array of probes for mark detecting purposes in a scanning mode. The storage medium has fields with each field to be scanned by an ass... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7391706 | Data storage device including conductive probe and ferroelectric storage medium A data storage device includes a conductive probe having a tip; a substrate; and a data storage medium including a layer of poled ferroelectric material. The ferroelectric layer is between the tip and the substrate. ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391707 | Devices and methods of detecting movement between media and probe tip in a probe data storage system A memory apparatus comprises a media, a tip adapted to write information to and read information from said media, a media movement mechanism attached to said media and configured to move said media in response to media control signals, and a capacitive sensor config... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7382711 | Method and apparatus for constant linear velocity electron beam substrate processing Embodiments of the invention generally provide an electron beam substrate processing system. In one embodiment, the present invention provides an electron beam substrate processing system where a spindle shaft used to rotate substrates during processing includes at ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7372025 | Scanning probe microscope using a surface drive actuator to position the scanning tip A scanning probe microscope includes a scanning probe tip and an electrostatic surface actuator operatively coupled to the scanning probe tip. The electrostatic surface actuator includes a movable member that has a first surface with a first plurality of electrodes ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367119 | Method for forming a reinforced tip for a probe storage device Systems and methods in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media. In an embodiment, the tip comprises a substantially hollow structure formed of a metal. The tip can be formed by depositing a first metal layer over silicon ther... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7359305 | Electron beam recorder and electron beam irradiation position detecting method An electron beam recorder includes an electron optical system for irradiating an electron beam on a master of an information recording medium and an electron beam irradiation position detecting unit for detecting an irradiation position of the electron beam in the e... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355955 | Nanoscale digital data storage device A nanoscale digital data storage device is provided. In the nanoscale digital data storage device, a storage medium has a polymer layer deposited on a substrate, for writing and reading digital data on and from. A cantilever chip has a plurality of cantilevers arran... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355951 | High density data recording/reproduction method utilizing electron emission and phase change media, and data recording system adopting the same, and media for the system A rapid data recording/reproducing method, a data recording system adopting the same, media for the system, and a tracking method, wherein the recording/reproducing method includes preparing media having a data recording layer in which a phase change is generated th... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352187 | Vacuum measuring gauge An electron-emitting cathode consists of an electrically conducting emitter layer attached to a side wall which consists of stainless steel and a gate which is fixed at a mall distance inside a concave emitter surface of the emitter layer. The cathode surrounds a re... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352677 | Probe-base storage apparatus having redundancy cantilevers A header of a nano storing apparatus is disclosed. If some cantilevers of the header are defective, an additional extra cantilever array is substitutively used. The header of a nano storing apparatus including: a cantilevery array including cantilevers each having a... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7345980 | Optically storing digital data in the form of spectrally coded particles A digital data storage medium comprises data in the form of particles which are spectrally coded. The particles generally have the same size and shape. The particles are spectrally coded by tailoring metal species to have specific absorption signature. The size, sha... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342817 | System and method for writing data using an electron beam A system for writing data using an electron beam to change the structure of a small section of a storage medium and includes at least one focused electron beam source. The duration of a write cycle of the focused electron beam source is controlled at least in part o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7336524 | Atomic probes and media for high density data storage A device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises a contact probe for high density data storage reading, writing, erasing, or rewriting. In one embodiment, the contact probe can include a silicon core having a conductive coating. Contact pro... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336585 | Information recording apparatus and method for recording information and information recording medium An information recording apparatus for recording tracks includes: a rotation drive section (RDS) that supports and rotates a master disk with a resist layer; an exposure beam emitting section (EBES) deflectably applying an exposure beam to the disk to form a spot th... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336590 | Dielectric reproducing apparatus, dielectric recording apparatus, and dielectric recording/reproducing apparatus A dielectric reproducing apparatus is provided with: a probe for applying an electric field to a dielectric material of a dielectric recording medium; a return electrode for returning the electric field applied from the probe; an inductor placed between the probe an... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7315505 | Storage device having a probe with plural tips A storage device includes a storage medium and a probe having plural tips. The storage medium has a surface in which storage cells are to be formed. The tips of the probe form plural perturbations in the surface in at least one of the storage cells for representing ... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7315557 | Multi-wavelength light source apparatus A pulse sequence is configured by making a pulse waveform output from a pulse light source into a super Gaussian pulse of the third order or higher, and input to a spectrum expanding device. The spectrum expanding device broadens the spectrum of the pulse sequence w... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7309630 | Method for forming patterned media for a high density data storage device Systems in accordance with the present invention can include a tip contactable with a media, the media including a substrate and a plurality of cells disposed over the substrate, one or more of the cells being electrically isolated from the other of the cells by a m... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301887 | Methods for erasing bit cells in a high density data storage device Methods in accordance with the present invention can be applied, in an embodiment, to a media comprising a phase change material to alter a resolved portion of the phase change material to have a resistance different from a resistance of the bulk material. A tip hav... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295503 | Data storage device including nanotube electron sources A data storage device includes a phase-change storage layer and an array of nanotubes as electron sources. ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7280456 | Methods and apparatus for determining the state of a variable resistive layer in a material stack A method and an apparatus for detecting a number of variation in resistance within a material stack in response to a scanning and injection of a non-contacting electron stream into a material stack, the material stack having a first conductive contact layer, a varia... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7276692 | Beam adjusting sample, beam adjusting method and beam adjusting device A beam adjusting sample having a flat surface being like a plate and having two edges orthogonal to each other is employed. A beam is applied to the beam adjusting sample to detect an amount of the beam passing through the beam adjusting sample. The beam vertically ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7260051 | Molecular memory medium and molecular memory integrated circuit A molecular memory media having a media surface and a platform with read/write heads. The platform and media are moved to allow one of addition, removal, and repositioning of atoms, electrons, and charges on a surface of the media. The media is a material capable of... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257691 | Writing and reading of data in probe-based data storage devices Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling writing and reading of data in an array of A storage fields of a probe-based data storage device in which data is written to and read from the array of storage fields by a corresponding array of probes. One method u... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7239600 | Storage device based on phase-change modulated luminescence A media storage device is provided. The device comprises different configurations of a luminescent layer comprising a luminescent material capable of emitting light while being bombarded by a beam from a beam transmitter, a detector for detecting the light emitted f... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7233517 | Atomic probes and media for high density data storage A device in accordance with embodiments of the present invention comprises an atomic probe for high density data storage reading, writing, erasing, or rewriting. In one embodiment, the atomic probe can include a core having a conductive coating. The core can compris... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7229743 | Electron beam lithography method, patterned master carrier for magnetic transfer, lithography method for patterned master carrier for magnetic transfer, and method for producing performatted magnetic recording media A fine pattern having first elements within track widths and second elements, which are shifted half a track pitch from the first elements, are drawn across the entire surface of a disk accurately and at high speed. A transfer pattern for a magnetic transfer master ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7227829 | Mechanical data processing Described is a method for erasing data recorded in a data storage device in which a data bit is written onto a surface by applying a first combination of energy and force to the surface via a tip to form a pit in the surface representative of the data bit by local d... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7212484 | Information recording/reading head There is provided a circular guard so as to surround the vicinity of a tip portion of a probe mounted on an information recording/reading head, in order to prevent dusts from touching and colliding with the probe. ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209429 | Data recording device comprising micro-tips and a recording medium The invention relates to a data recording device comprising microtips and a recording medium. The recording medium comprises a substrate with a preferably-carbon resistive layer disposed thereon, said resistive layer being covered with an active layer. According to ... | 04/24/2007 |
