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Patent No. 6718554

Hands free towel carrying system

A hands free towel carrying system for coupling a towel to a user to prevent loss, theft or contamination.

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Examiner: Tzeng, Fred F.


Primary examiner statistics: 204 patents; average approval time: 210 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 460 patents; average approval time: 1068 days

Patents as Primary Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7787209 Method and apparatus for compensating for repeatable runout using...
7471478 Magnetic disk producing method
7463441 Automatic data update method of data storage system and disk driv...
7463437 Demodulation compensation for spiral servo tracks in hard disk dr...
7460329 Feedforward compensator for induced vibration
7460327 Magnetic disk apparatus
7457076 Head seek control method suppressing vibrations and rotatary reco...
7453664 Positioning control circuit, measurement apparatus for trace info...
7453662 Estimating residual temperature for flying height adjustment of r...
7450328 Method for recording bursts on a disk and related apparatus
7450335 Reducing read/write head track misregistration
7443627 Lowest power mode for a mobile drive
7443629 Apparatus, system, and method for optimizing fast access data sto...
7440217 On the fly write head flyheight detector
7436616 Current pulsing for unloading
7433145 Magnetic disk apparatus
7433148 Hard disk drive repeatable runout feed forward cancellation with ...
7428119 Magnetic disk drive with head retraction control
7426090 Storage device, control device, control method, and program
7423834 Convolution based multiple harmonic frequency repeatable runout c...
7423837 Micro actuator gain calibration based on a sinusoidal input signa...
7423831 Utilization of the acceleration zone in ammonite servo writing
7420761 Control apparatus, storage device, and head retraction controllin...
7420762 Head slap detecting device, storage device, head slap detecting m...
7420760 Method and apparatus reducing flying height drop in a hard disk d...
7420759 Apparatus and method for internal calibration of normalized playb...
7417819 Extendable virtual autoloader systems and methods
7411761 Seek adaptation system in hard disk drives
7411757 Disk drive with nonvolatile memory having multiple modes of opera...
7394614 Control method to reduce settle TMR in hard disk drives
7388727 Method and apparatus for moving off of a disk drive's crash stop ...
7388728 System and method for writing servo sectors in a perpendicular me...
7388729 Magnetic recording device and medium having mask pattern
7385775 Information reproducing apparatus and information recording/repro...
7385778 Control device of storage/reproduction mechanism
7385779 Disk device with bi-directional communication function
7382565 Method to avoid contact between the head and disk protrusions
7382570 Dynamically controlling seek profile in an acceleration tracking ...
7382567 Accelerometer-based differential free fall detection system, appa...
7379262 Higher-order state estimator for low TMR in hard disk drives

Patents as Assistant Examiner (view all)

Patent No. Patent Title:
7292400 Device for limiting current in a sensor
7142385 Method, apparatus and program storage device for magnetic disk dr...
7116509 Magnetic disk apparatus and servo signal recording method
7092182 Marker-zone to determine gross positioning on a reference surface...
7092181 Magnetic recording apparatus
7085087 Data storage apparatus and method for managing buffer memory
7085090 System, method, and apparatus for providing a single display pane...
7082009 Accurate tracking of coil resistance based on current, voltage an...
7068457 System and method for electrostatic fly height control
7068462 Magnetic recording apparatus
7068455 Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable m...
7064919 Disk storage apparatus
7061713 Disk storage
7061705 Signal processing apparatus and method, record medium, and progra...
7057842 Method, medium, and apparatus for offline self servo writing and ...
7057844 Method and apparatus for head positioning control in a disk drive
7054092 Methods for improving printed media self-servo writing
7054096 Method and apparatus for determining embedded runout correction v...
7054090 Data storage device, recording medium, servo writing method, and ...
7050260 Method and apparatus for partial self-servo writing using servo w...
7046468 Semiconductor integrated circuit and magnetic storage device usin...
7046471 Method and apparatus for utilizing variable tracks per inch to re...
7046476 Method apparatus and system for accessing discontinuous media tra...
7042669 Method and apparatus for recording/reproducing magnetization info...
7042673 Hard disk drive calibration method and apparatus
7038871 Multi-band servo patterns with inherent track ID
7038875 Dynamic measurement of head media spacing modulation
7038872 Servo patterns with inherent track ID
7038876 Control system for a data storage device with constraint
7035030 Amplifier apparatus and magnetic recording and reproducing appara...
7035032 Method and system for reducing power consumption in a rotatable m...
7035041 Displacement resetting systems and methods for the second stage o...
7031096 Center frequency adjustment for a notch filter
7031091 Magnetic recording apparatus and method of writing data at low te...
7027255 Devices and systems for setting thresholds for rotatable storage ...
7027251 Method and apparatus to control pole tip protrusion
7023636 Information recording/reproducing apparatus
7019932 Disk unit having mechanism for loading and unloading head uniform...
7016136 Method and system for adjusting a magnetic tape head
7016135 Apparatus and method for automated interconnection and disconnect...
 
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