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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7941779 | Methods and apparatuses for thermal analysis based circuit design Methods and apparatuses for circuit design to reduce power usage, such as reducing temperature dependent power usage, and/or to improve timing, such as reducing temperature dependent delay or transition time. At least one embodiment of the present invention reduces ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7522479 | Domain wall displacement for magneto-optical recording medium having multiple magnetic layers Provided is a magnetic domain wall displacement magneto-optical recording medium having a preferable reproducing signal characteristic. The magnetic domain wall displacement magneto-optical recording medium includes at least a magnetic domain wall displacement layer... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7352658 | Method for recording information data to a recording medium by irradiation with a light beam and application of a magnetic field A magnetic recording medium comprises a first magnetic film and a second magnetic film on a substrate. The second magnetic film is composed of a magnetic material preferred for recording and reproduction, and the first magnetic film is composed of a ferrimagnetic ma... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7336573 | Method for handling interrupt request in optical storage drive When an optical storage drive executes a control procedure or operation, a method of handling an interrupt request includes utilizing the optical storage drive to receive an interrupt request from a control circuit; checking whether the interrupt request is a read c... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7328447 | Optical recording medium manufacturing device, method, optical recording medium, reproduction device, method, recording device, and method An optical recording medium having a plural number of recording layers includes a n-th recording layer (23) (n≧1), made up by a substrate (20) and a semi-reflective layer (21) carried by the substrate (20) and adapted for partially refl... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7274626 | Magneto-optical recording using a heating element A perpendicular magnetic recording medium for thermo-magnetic printing has an ultra-high recording density and is resistant to thermal decay of magnetization. An intermediate layer of the medium is provided between a first recording layer using a low-noise Co alloy ... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7224644 | Head arrangement for domain expansion magnetic amplifying magneto-optical system A head arrangement for reading a magneto-optical recording medium (10) having a storage layer and a read-out layer, includes an improved field generating device for generating a magnetic field used for copying a written mark from said storage layer to said re... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7210155 | Magneto-optical recording medium having in-plane magnetizing layer A high-density magneto-optical recording medium having excellent jitter properties is provided. A pattern-dependent shift of the length of a recorded mark does not occur even when a minute mark has increased sensitivity to a recording magnetic field. A magneto-optic... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7180831 | Magneto-optical recording medium having a recording layer of columnar structure It is an object of the present invention to provide a magneto-optical recording medium including a recording film having at least a reproduction layer, an intermediate layer, and a recording layer, on an optical disk substrate, wherein the recording film is a magnet... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173884 | Magnetooptic recording medium and its manufacturing method A first dielectric layer 3, a multilayer magnetic film 10 in which a first magnetic layer 4 having perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at room temperature, a second magnetic layer 5 having inplane magnetic anisotropy at room temperature, an... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7126886 | Magneto-optical recording medium and method for producing the same According to the present invention, a light beam is radiated to an area between recording tracks while the intensity of a magnetic field from the outside to a magneto-optical recording medium is suppressed to 50 Oe or less, whereby magnetic anisotropy formed between... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7092318 | Magneto-optical recording medium having a plurality of magnetic layers In a magneto-optical recording medium, a first magnetic layer is made of a material using a Gd—Fe film or a Gd—Fe—Co film as a base so that a magnetic field normalized based on saturation magnetization of a magnetic domain wall driving field can be larger than... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7035138 | Magnetic random access memory having perpendicular magnetic films switched by magnetic fields from a plurality of directions A magnetization reversal method is a method of applying an external magnetic field to a magnetoresistive film, in which the magnetoresistive film has a structure wherein a nonmagnetic film is placed between magnetic films with an easy axis of magnetization along a p... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7012857 | Magneto optical recording medium having a multilayer recording film of different thickness A magneto optical recording medium capable of stable recording and readout using a DWDD system is provided. The magneto optical recording medium of the present invention comprises an optical disk substrate and a multilayer recording film comprising essentially a rea... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6980491 | Domain wall displacement type magneto-optical recording medium and recording method There is provided a domain wall displacement type magneto-optical recording medium and a recording method that allow signals recorded with a high density over the limit of resolution of optical systems to be regenerated without increasing complexity of a recording a... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6882617 | Magnetic recording medium and method of recording In a method of recording and reproduction using a magnetic storage medium, a magnetic storage medium (5) is used in which at least magnetic recording film (2) and a superconducting film (3) are deposited. According to the method, ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6826131 | Magneto-optical recording medium having multiple magnetic layers A multilayer film including a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, and a third magnetic layer in the stated order is formed so that a Curie temperature TC2 of the second magnetic layer is set to be lower than a Curie temperature TC1 o... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6821642 | Magneto-optical recording medium with first and second magnetic layers with almost equal Curie temperatures A magneto-optical recording medium includes at least three magnetic layers of a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and a third magnetic layer, in which a recording mark recorded in the third magnetic layer by irradiation of a light beam is transferred thr... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6765847 | Optical disk and method of magnetically separating tracks of the optical disk On a disk-shaped substrate with pits and grooves, a first dielectric layer, a magnetic layer, and a second dielectric layer are formed. A data region used for recording/reproduction includes a plurality of tracks, and is divided into a plurality of segments. Each se... | 07/20/2004 |
| 6671233 | Magneto-optical recording medium and reproduction method therefor A magneto-optical recording medium comprises, on a substrate, a dielectric layer, a GdFeCo reproducing layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a TbFeCo recording layer. Upon reproduction, a DC magnetic field Hex is applied in the recording direction, and a repro... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6556516 | Reproducing method and reproducing apparatus for magneto-optical recording medium using different radiation patterns External magnetic fields H(x) or reproducing light beams L(x) having different intensity patterns are applied to an identical recording position on a magneto-optical recording medium so that different pieces of information corresponding to the patterns ar... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6532196 | Magneto-optical recording medium comprising recording layer and reproducing layer In a magneto-optical recording medium comprising a recording layer and a reproducing layer, a transfer layer and a magnetic shielding layer are successively formed between the recording layer and the reproducing layer respectively. The reproducing layer i... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6521357 | Magneto-optical recording medium A magneto-optical recording medium including a recording layer for recording information and a substrate for supporting the recording layer is disclosed. The recording layer includes: a recording magnetic film for recording the information, the recording ... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6463015 | Method of reproducing information on a magneto-optical recording medium for achieving super resolution reproduction of high resolution recorded information A magneto-optical recording medium of the present invention has a recording layer made of a perpendicular magnetization film, and a readout layer which is in an in-plane magnetization state at room temperature and changes into a perpendicular magnetizatio... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6331966 | Optical storage apparatus and recording and reproducing method of optical storage medium A calibration processing unit is provided, a reproducing operation of an optical storage medium by a reproducing unit is executed while changing a reproducing magnetic field and a reproducing laser power, a reproducible state is measured, and a set of bes... | 12/18/2001 |
| 6307816 | Magneto-optical recording medium, and information reproducing method using the medium A magneto-optical recording medium includes a reproducing layer, a recording layer and an intermediate layer provided between the reproducing layer and the recording layer. The reproducing layer is an in-plane magnetization film at least at room temperatu... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6307819 | Method of reading magneto-optical recording medium A reading method for a magneto-optical recording medium is provided, irradiating laser light as a reading beam and using a magnetic head. High density and high transmission rate are possible and a correct reading can be performed according to the length o... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6122228 | Magneto-optical recording medium and reproduction method therefor A magneto-optical recording medium comprises, on a substrate, a dielectric layer, a GdFeCo reproducing layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a TbFeCo recording layer. Upon reproduction, a DC magnetic field Hex is applied in the recording direction, and a repro... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5909410 | Optical magnetic recording medium and optical magnetic reproducing method An optical magnetic recording medium includes a first magnetic film for holding information in a status of either an upward or a downward magnetization, a second magnetic film closely adjacent to the first magnetic film and an in-plane magnetization film ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5889740 | Magneto-optical recording medium and magneto-optical recording method Featured is a magneto-optical recording medium including a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer and a fourth magnetic layer formed one on another in this order. The first, second, third and fourth magnetic layers have Curi... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5889739 | Magnetooptical recording medium and information recording and reproducing methods using the recording medium A method of recording information on and reproducing information from a magnetooptical recording medium which includes first and second magnetic layers. The method includes the step of projecting a light spot onto the medium. When reproducing information,... | 03/30/1999 |
| 5814418 | Magneto-optical recording medium and method for reading out information from the same In one embodiment, the magneto-optical recording medium of the present invention has a recording layer structure including at least a readout magnetic film, a control magnetic film, and a recording magnetic film. The readout magnetic film is a perpendicul... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5787056 | Magneto-optical recording medium with multiple magnetic layers If the Curie points of the first magnetic layer, second magnetic layer, third magnetic layer and fourth magnetic layer of alloys of rare-earth metal and transition metal as ferrimagnetic materials showing perpendicular magnetization from room temperature ... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5420728 | Magneto-optical recording medium including a plurality of recording layers having different curie temperatures and method of recording and reading A magneto-optic recording medium is formed from a plurality of perpendicularly magnetized thin film layers, each of which is capable of recording and reproducing information. The layers are mounted on a transparent substrate which is exposed to an inciden... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5283770 | Method of recording information on and reproducing information from magneto-optical recording medium A magneto-optical recording medium has a multi-layer magnetic film comprising at least a reproducing layer, a memory layer, and a recording layer which are successively deposited in magnetically coupled relationship to each other. Information is recorded ... | 02/01/1994 |