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Method and apparatus for making a drink hop along a bar or counter
A method for generating a drink which appears to hop from a remote spot on the bar or counter and take one or more leaps, before landing in a patron's glass.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7397733 | Optical pickup A lens holder is provided with a focusing coil for urging the lens holder in a focusing direction and tracking coils for urging the lens holder in a tracking direction in cooperation with magnets. A magnet is disposed in a space where the focusing coil and the track... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7349295 | Optical head device A lens holder (101) holds an objective lens (4) and a support shaft (103) is inserted in a bearing hole (101a) in the lens holder (101). Light that is emitted from a light source and reflected by an information recording med... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7342870 | Position adjustment apparatus, optical pickup apparatus and position adjustment method A chuck portion provided to keep a fixed positional relation with respect to a housing, holds a light source unit detachably. This chuck portion is displaced from an advanced position to a retracted position to displace the light source unit which is in a provisiona... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7319564 | Objective lens driving apparatus In an objective lens driving apparatus which includes a lens holder (22) provided with a plurality of coils (23, 24) and swingably supported by a suspension wire (28), and a magnet (27) for supplying a driving force to the lens holder by ... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7283434 | Optical pickup device capable of correcting spherical aberration A mirror actuator includes a piezoelectric element having a thickness in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the mirror, and a circular surface bonded to a circular rear surface of the mirror such that the center of the circular surface of the piezoelectric el... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280443 | Optical pickup device capable of correcting spherical aberration A mirror actuator includes a piezoelectric element bonded at a circular surface to a rear surface of a circular mirror such that the circular surface's center matches that of the rear, circular surface of the mirror. The piezoelectric element receives a potential to... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7254097 | Optical disc apparatus An optical pickup of an optical disc apparatus has a lens holder for holding an objective lens is pivoted with a guide shaft slidably in a direction in parallel with an optical axis of the objective lens and rotatably around the guide shaft in a direction perpendicu... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7227285 | Autofocus actuator An autofocus actuator is provided by which it is possible to easily confirm that a holder and a yoke do not make contact with each other even when the space between the holder and the yoke is made as small as possible in order to improve shock resistance. The autofo... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218513 | Disc drive carrier unit A disc drive carrier unit installed on an installation surface of a computer casing is proposed. The installation surface has at least a first positioning piece and a first fixation piece, and both are perpendicular to each other. The disc drive carrier unit has a f... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7219359 | Actuator used with an optical pickup An actuator for an optical pickup having a base on which a holder is fixed, a bobbin, a support member, and a magnetic circuit. Pluralities of installation holes are formed in the bobbin such that a plurality of objective lenses to record and/or reproduce optical di... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7199949 | Optical pickup device and optical disk device The present invention provides an optical pickup device comprising a light condensing means for condensing light emergent from a light source to an optical disk, a light condensing holder on which the light condensing means is mounted, a suspension holder for elasti... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7136331 | Disk drive An optical pick-up includes a lens holder and a lens holder supporting portion. The lens holder has a focusing coil, a tracking coil, and a pair of nickel plates arranged to sandwich the focusing coil from the top and the bottom. The lens holder supporting portion i... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7116495 | Optical system for optical pickup device, coupling lens and optical information recording/reproducing apparatus An optical system includes an objective lens; and a plastic coupling lens to change a divergent angle of a light flux emitted from a light source and is structured such that the light flux emitted from the light source passes through both of the coupling lens and th... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7102981 | Optical scanning device An optical scanning device is used for scanning first and second information layers with first and second radiation beams. The device includes a radiation source and an objective lens assembly (31). The lens assembly includes a doublet-lens system (61, 62 | 09/05/2006 |
| 7095702 | Optical pickup apparatus The present invention relates to an optical pickup apparatus enabling to reproduce/record data of different kinds of disks in different thicknesses, using one single optical pickup. The optical pickup apparatus includes two objective lens, in which one objective len... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7065008 | Objective lens unit An objective lens has an actuator base and a lens holder for supporting an objective lens. The lens holder has a shaft hole. A shaft is disposed on the actuator base and fitted to the shaft hole. A cover is attached to the actuator base so as to cover the lens holde... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062774 | Optical pickup for optical disk drive and driving method thereof An optical pickup and driving method for an optical disk drive holding an optical disk includes a base, an object lens, and a slider supporting the object lens, where the object lens focuses a light on a recording surface of the optical disk. An optical head section... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7027385 | Optical disk, disk substrate, and drive An optical disk 100 is provided with a hub 3 at the central portion of a substratel. A relationship Y/X≧0.015, preferably Y/X≧0.05 is satisfied where X is the projected area of the substrate 1 and Y is a contact area between the hub 3... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7016125 | Objective lens-driving apparatus An objective lens driving apparatus is used for accurately positioning an abject to focus a light spot on an optical recording medium. A lens holder holds the objective lens and has a bearing hole through which a shaft extends in a direction parallel to the optical ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7012859 | Method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of optical recording medium A method and apparatus for controlling reproduction of an optical recording medium is disclosed. According to the method and apparatus, a moving direction of an object lens on a disc is detected from a slope of a differential phase detection (DPD) error signal in ca... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6996037 | Pickup head actuator A pickup head actuator for carrying a plurality of near-field optical I/O elements, far-field optical I/O elements, or magnetic I/O elements. Besides performing focusing and tracking servo, the attraction due to magnetic inductor and tracking magnet enables a base t... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6980506 | Pickup apparatus for disk player having a frame for supporting a half-mirror A pickup apparatus 1 is directed to an apparatus for optically reading-out information on a disk 3 arranged in a disk player, and comprises a pickup 11, an LD 13, a half mirror 15, a photo detector 17, and a pickup frame ... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6940802 | Optical scanning device with an actuator coil bent around the beam path An optical scanning device scans an information track which is present on an information carrier. The scanning device includes a radiation source, a lens system with an optical axis for focusing a radiation beam supplied by the radiation source into a scanning spot ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6807135 | Tilt detection system, tilt detection method and tilt adjustment method A tilt detection system includes an optical disk having a series of data recorded therein, the series of data having a pulse width smaller than the minimum pulse width of data recorded in an ordinary optical disk; a reproducing part reproducing a signal from the opt... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6778472 | Optical pickup with switchable optical systems along an optical path An optical pickup apparatus includes a first optical system for recording or reproducing signals to or from a first optical recording medium; a second optical system for recording or reproducing signals to or from a second optical recording medium; a holder for acco... | 08/17/2004 |
| 6721241 | Optical information system with motor controlled reflector means in a swivel arm A device for refracting beams of light, in particular laser beams, with at least one refraction component which can be adjusted by means of a drive unit. The drive unit is formed from the drive of a read/write head of a magnetic data storage component. ... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6687062 | Objective lens-driving apparatus An objective lens driving apparatus is used for accurately positioning an abject to focus a light spot on an optical recording medium. A lens holder holds the objective lens and has a bearing hole through which a shaft extends in a direction parallel to t... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6567352 | Objective lens driving device and optical disc apparatus using the same It is an object to perform a thin and compact design of the objective lens driving device. In order to achieve the above object, optical beam is passed through a space surrounded by a tracking coil and a focusing coil which are adjacent to each other and ... | 05/20/2003 |
| 6493309 | Pickup adjusting mechanism for a disc player In a pickup 5 laterally moving by being guided at its one side by a main shaft 4, an inclined piece 5a tilted frontwardly and obliquely downwardly in an opening portion 1a inside a chassis 1 is opposite to the shaft 4. A screw 6 for adjusting the tilt ang... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6347069 | Optical pickup device and production method of optical pickup device components An optical pickup device featuring reduced number of components and improved workability for achieving cost reduction and improved product quality. A base stand (4) is provided with a first guide section (8) and a second guide section (9) which stand upri... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6181491 | Optical head device, information recording and reproducing apparatus and optical system An optical head device capable of stably positioning an information head device even if a distance between the object point and the image point is reduced so as to miniaturize the device can be realized. The optical head device comprises a semiconductor l... | 01/30/2001 |
| 5966354 | Drive apparatus for objective lens A first objective lens and a second objective lens are fixedly mounted on a lens holder. The lens holder has four magnetic members embedded in a side thereof about an axis of rotation. The magnetic members are associated with coils respectively. The lens ... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5949744 | Optical pickup apparatus An optical pickup apparatus for recording/reproducing an information onto/from an optical disc. The optical pickup apparatus comprises a base having a first shaft and a second shaft, an object lens holder rotatably coupled to the first shaft in such a man... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5894465 | Transmissive data storage media and an optical head using holographic or acousto-optical deflection An optical data storage system includes an optical data storage system for use with a data storage medium. The system includes a stationary optical head for steering an incident laser beam holographically and/or by means of an acousto-optical method acros... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5864524 | Lens actuator for dual lens optical disk apparatus having lens mounting base stopper and selected lens sensor A lens actuator for use in an optical data reader, comprising: a base on which a plurality of N (N=natural number not less than two) objective lenses corresponding to N optical data recording media having substrates of different thicknesses, respectively ... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5835470 | System and method for steering focal plane data using cylindrical coordinates to access data locations in a holographic memory Systems and methods for steering a complex, spatially-modulated incident beam of coherent light to gain access to data locations in a holographic memory cell (HMC). One of the systems includes: (1) a reflective element, locatable proximate a first focal p... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5598397 | Objective lens drive in an optical disk mechanism An objective lens drive for a laser disk apparatus drives an objective lens in focusing and tracking directions to ensure that a light beam generated from a source such as a laser diode through an optical system correctly focuses on a recording surface of... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5592459 | Optical head device having electro-magnetically rotatable and straight movable members In an optical head device on which a movable member on which a movable member which can be largely moved to the tracking direction and slightly rotatably moved, if an optical unit is mounted on the movable member in addition to an objective lens, no rotat... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5559639 | Beam receiving position adjusting device A device including a polarizing beam splitter by which an incident luminous flux is split into a first luminous flux radiated onto a first photo sensor and a second luminous flux radiated onto a second photo sensor, and an adjusting mechanism provided for... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5541899 | Optical pickup device with movable objective lens and stationary focusing and tracking coils An objective lens drive device has a supporting member to which an objective lens is attached. The supporting member is freely translated in a direction parallel to the optical axis of the objective lens and in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis. T... | 07/30/1996 |
