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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8149652 | Compensating the effects of static head-media spacing variations and nonlinear transition shift in heat assisted magnetic recording An apparatus comprises a storage medium, a recording head, a source of electromagnetic radiation, and a control circuit for modulating the source of electromagnetic radiation in response to a static deviation of a spacing between the recording head and the storage m... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8120996 | Device and method for microstructuring a storage medium and storage medium comprising a microstructured region A device providing for microstructuring a storage medium includes a radiation source for producing an at least partially coherent beam from electromagnetic radiation, a modulator provided with a plurality of individually switchable modulator elements, a beam-forming... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8077556 | Thermally assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive A thermally assisted magnetic head has a medium-facing surface facing a magnetic recording medium; a near-field light generator disposed on a light exit face in the medium-facing surface; a magnetic recording element located adjacent to the near-field light generato... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7876646 | Thermally assisted magnetic head, head gimbal assembly, and hard disk drive A thermally assisted magnetic head comprises: a slider substrate, a first surface located opposite to a medium-facing surface, and side surfaces located between the medium-facing surface and the first surface; a magnetic head portion having a near-field light genera... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7864635 | Recording head It is an objective that the optical loss and the number of optical components are reduced in an optical recording head using a near-field where a laser beam is guided from a light source to the tip of the head and a thermally assisted magnetic recording head. A stru... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7423938 | Apparatus and method for recording and reproducing ROM and RAM data into magneto-optical recording medium Multiple recording and simultaneous regeneration are performed using a storage medium comprising phase pits and a recording layer so that ROM and RAM can be regenerated simultaneously. When data is recorded to RAM while regenerating ROM using the concurrent ROM/RAM ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7369348 | Method and apparatus for adaptation to humidity in a hard disk drive Hard Disk Drive (HDD) including a humidity sensor. Humidity sensor communicating with embedded circuit to provide humidity reading to alter flying height control asserted to control vertical positioning of slider above disk surface. Method operating HDD using humidi... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7352659 | Method and apparatus for phase and/or copy window control use with a domain expansion recording medium and record carrier A method and apparatus for controlling read-out and/or synchronization between an external magnetic field and written data during a reading operation from a magneto-optical recording medium includes generating a pulse in a reading signal in a read-out layer by copyi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7331310 | Domestic animal training method A method of training animals provides for the creation of a recorded track taking into account a plurality of recording techniques for a particular sound source A stationary microphone is utilized to provide a first layer, a moving microphone as utilized to provide ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7321530 | Decoder circuit, and photo-detecting amplifier circuit and optical pickup including the decoder circuit for disk recording/reproducing apparatus A decoder circuit of the present invention, mounted on an integrated circuit, decodes input voltage Vin supplied to a single external input terminal into three or more control outputs, and an object of the present invention is to reduce the size of a chip. The foreg... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319650 | Recording apparatus and recording method The amount of light reflected from a disk is detected, and it is determined according to the amount of reflected light whether the disk is a recordable disk or a rewritable disk. The disk is controlled according to the result of determination such that it is rotated... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319651 | Recording apparatus and recording method The amount of light reflected from a disk is detected, and it is determined according to the amount of reflected light whether the disk is a recordable disk or a rewritable disk. The disk is controlled according to the result of determination such that it is rotated... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319649 | Recording apparatus and recording method The amount of light reflected from a disk is detected, and it is determined according to the amount of reflected light whether the disk is a recordable disk or a rewritable disk. The disk is controlled according to the result of determination such that it is rotated... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313063 | Method of determining the time for executing optimal power calibration in an optical drive A method of determining the time for executing optimal power calibration in an optical drive. First, relationships between values of a driving signal and ambient temperatures of the optical drive are recorded in look up table in a memory. According to the look up ta... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307923 | Electro magnetic field generating element, information recording and reproducing head and information recording and reproducing device To realize an electromagnetic field generating element, an information recording and reproducing head and an information recording and reproducing device for high frequency magnetic recording and reproducing by the optically assisted magnetic recording and reproduct... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7304926 | Motor control system having output clamp function and method of the same A motor control system comprises a motor controller and a clamp apparatus and is used for controlling a motor apparatus. The motor controller is used for generating a motor control output according to a reference signal and a feedback signal from the motor apparatus... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292521 | Optical data storage and systems utilizing plasmon lenses A light-plasmon coupling lens including an optically transparent substrate having a light incident surface and a light-plasmon coupling surface opposite the light incident surface. The light-plasmon coupling surface including at least a set of circular concentric pe... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7275865 | Temperature measuring apparatus using change of magnetic field A temperature measuring apparatus measures the temperature of a wafer in real time using a change of magnetic field during a thermal process. The temperature measuring apparatus includes: at least one conductive structure disposed on one surface of the wafer, in whi... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7258236 | Methods and devices utilizing adsorption of chiral molecules at a surface or interface The present invention is concerned with the adsorption of chiral molecules at surfaces or interfaces, with the arrangement and properties of adsorbed chiral molecules, and with devices and methods based thereupon. In particular, an apparatus allows the influence of ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7254104 | Optical disk and optical disk drive device An optical disk physical has a recording region divided into zones, each zone including physical tracks adjacent to each other. An integer number of sectors are provided in each physical track. The angular recording density is higher in the more outward zones such t... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7242660 | Power control device and method of single base power for optical disk drive A power control device of single base power is provided for an optical read/write module of an optical disk drive. The optical read/write module generates a power feedback signal and a temperature signal. The power control device includes a current compensating modu... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239472 | Method and apparatus for writing data in a disk drive According to one embodiment, there is to provide a data write method which is applied to a disk drive, for recording data on a disk medium by a head mounted on a rotary type actuator. The method carries out a track pitch conversion processing so that a track pitch o... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7227825 | Signal recording/reproducing apparatus with improved power consumption A signal recording/reproducing apparatus includes a first power source unit which generates necessary electric power signals from a commercial power source, a second power source unit which generates a necessary electric power signal from a battery, a recording sign... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218465 | Magnetic media patterning via contact printing utilizing stamper having magnetic pattern formed in non-magnetic substrate A stamper/imprinter for use in forming a magnetic transition pattern in a magnetic material by means of contact printing, comprising: (a) a non-magnetic substrate having a major surface comprising a patterned plurality of spaced-apart recesses with a plurality of no... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7215632 | Signal processing apparatus and signal processing method An optical disc system comprises a gain offset unit for giving a gain and an offset to an inputted reproduction signal, an A/D converter, a peak detector, a bottom detector, an amplitude detector for calculating a signal, an offset detector for calculating a signal ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7206262 | Optical disk recording/reproducing device A moved distance detecting means (15) detects the moved distance in a tracking direction of an object lens, a position signal generating means (60) generates a position signal corresponding to the position of the object lens based on the detection, and... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7199953 | Magnetic transfer master medium, magnetic transfer method, and magnetic transfer master medium forming method A favorable magnetic transfer is performed to a perpendicular magnetic recording medium. A master medium is provided with a substrate on the surface of which protrusion portions, which form a pattern corresponding to the data that is to be transferred, having a plia... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7193934 | Domain position detection magnetic amplifying magneto-optical system The present invention is a method of reading and writing in MAMMOS that uses the edge of the thermal profile for detection of a domain rather than using the tip of the profile. By using the edge, it is possible to detect the position of domains rather than merely th... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191154 | Apparatus for encrypting and recording received content information on a recording medium using both medium identification information and a cipher key for encryption A content recording method using a communication means, including reading from a recording medium identification information unique to that recording medium, receiving through the communication means permission information for permitting recording of content on that... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7177115 | Magnetic recording and reading device A magnetic recording and reading device having a transfer rate of not less than 50 MB/s includes a magnetic recording medium having an absolute value of normalized noise coefficient per recording density of not more than 2.5×10−8 (μVrms)(inch) (μm) | 02/13/2007 |
| 7177238 | Method and related apparatus for adapting rotation speed adjustments of a motor via a pause mode while accessing data from an optical disc A method and related apparatus for data accessing of an optical disk drive. The optical disk drive has a motor for rotating an optical disk and a pickup head. The pickup head is capable of writing data onto the optical disk according to a write-in clock. The method ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7174270 | Rotation angle detecting apparatus and method of detecting rotation angle A rotation angle detecting apparatus having a reference signal-generating device that generated a reference signal; a rotation angle detecting section that generated an output signal in response to the reference signal; a feedback control section that determines a r... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7167943 | Memory apparatus When a read request has been received, it is determined whether there is a read address that has been designated in a particular area. When a read address has been designated in the particular area, the process is terminated. In other words, the process is completed... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7168081 | Domain stabilized magneto-optic head A magneto-optic head includes a magnetic layer formed to have a substantially stabilized magnetic domain configuration. The magnetic layer includes a set of magnetic domains that includes one or more magnetic domains that are oriented such that they are substantiall... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161881 | Method and system for optical drive write strategies embedded in an optical medium An optical drive writes information to an optical medium by obtaining a write strategy for the optical medium from a write strategy table embedded in the optical medium. A write module in the optical drive reads an optical drive identification code from the optical ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7154700 | Disk drive that stores time varying characteristics thereof with data from a host device and associated methods A disk drive includes a rotatable data storage disk, a transducer, and a controller. The transducer is configured to write data on the disk. The controller is configured to receive data from a host device, to measure at least one parameter that is indicative of a ti... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7151716 | Magneto-optical recording medium having a transfer control layer A magneto-optical recording medium, including a recording layer, a transfer control layer magnetically coupled to the recording layer, and a reproduction layer. The recording layer includes a recording magnetic domain in which information is recorded by a magnetizat... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151724 | Disk recording apparatus and disk recording method A disk recording apparatus for recording data to a disk includes: a reading and writing element for emitting a read beam onto the disk to read out recorded data therefrom while emitting a plurality of write beams simultaneously onto the disk to record data thereto i... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136240 | Magnetic disk drive with parameter setting Embodiments of the invention are directed to setting optimum FIR filter coefficients. In one embodiment, a POR (Power On Reset) control block acquires temperature data from a thermistor. If the temperature is the first to have been detected as falling within a low t... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7102974 | Optical head optical output setting method and optical disk recording apparatus To provide a method for optimizing the optical output from an optical head when recording data onto an optical disk, each time a suspension of data recording onto the disk is determined, the optical head reads data recorded onto the disk before the suspension, and r... | 09/05/2006 |
