Patents
Patents for G11B 19 - Driving, starting, stopping record carriers not specifically of filamentary or web form, or of supports therefor; Control thereof; Control of operating function (26,229)
12/2004
12/02/2004US20040240852 Disc recording apparatus and method with function of securing data recording area on disc
12/02/2004US20040240364 Optical recording medium and apparatus for recording/reproducing data on or from the same
12/02/2004US20040240357 Method and apparatus for discriminating optical disks
12/02/2004US20040240354 Optical disk apparatus, condition measuring method, and condition measuring position setting method
12/02/2004US20040240352 Method and apparatus for controlling maximum access speed in optical disc apparatus
12/02/2004US20040240351 Recording medium, recording apparatus, and reading apparatus
12/02/2004US20040240350 Information medium and information recording/reproduction apparatus
12/02/2004US20040240337 Write control method
12/02/2004US20040240329 Optical disk recording apparatus including an operating face panel capable of visual indication of recording status
12/02/2004US20040240104 Spindle motor with a welded disc clamp centering tube
12/02/2004US20040240098 Falling sensor and the information processing device making use of it
12/02/2004US20040239753 Apparatus, systems and methods relating to an improved media player
12/01/2004EP1482737A1 Method for collating program guide information with new data identifier allocation
12/01/2004EP1481394A1 Apparatus for reading information, supporting means for use in the apparatus and method for rotating a data carrier
12/01/2004EP1481314A2 Concurrent read and write access to simulated sequential data of a removable random access data storage medium
12/01/2004EP1480772A2 Methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of cells and related optical bio-disc systems
12/01/2004CN1552064A High density multilayered optical disk, and method for managing formatting according to the same
12/01/2004CN1551456A Spindle motor and disk drive unit
12/01/2004CN1551197A Information storing method
12/01/2004CN1551184A Data storage device and control method therefor
12/01/2004CN1551182A Code judging apparatus and method, record medium judging apparatus and method, and information recording apparatus and method
12/01/2004CN1551181A Timing adjusting apparatus
12/01/2004CN1551180A Disk device
12/01/2004CN1551171A Apparatus and method for controlling recording speed of optical disc recording system
12/01/2004CN1551140A Disk device
12/01/2004CN1551131A Rotational velocity controlling system for information recording medium
12/01/2004CN1551128A Method of and apparatus for differentiating between writable disc types
12/01/2004CN1178226C Write protection method of disk recording medium comprising write protection information
12/01/2004CN1178224C Information recording apparatus and information reproducing apparatus
12/01/2004CN1178222C Disk unit
12/01/2004CN1178219C Disk holding device
12/01/2004CN1178213C Optical recording regenerator
12/01/2004CN1178212C Information disk recording/reproducing device, and method for detecting vibration of information disk recording/reproducting device
12/01/2004CN1178207C Optical disc discriminating system and method
12/01/2004CN1178118C Low power CD-Rom player for portable computers
11/2004
11/30/2004USRE38662 Disk storage device having a sealed bearing tube
11/30/2004US6826771 Disk holding device
11/30/2004US6826630 Prioritizing commands in a data storage device
11/30/2004US6826139 Hybrid disc and method and apparatus for discriminating same
11/30/2004US6826137 Apparatus and method for authentication/copy protection of optical storage medium and the optical storage medium
11/30/2004US6826136 Apparatus and method for controlling reproduction speed of an optical disk
11/30/2004US6826135 Method of compensating for an eccentricity of an optical disk and apparatus for doing the same
11/30/2004US6826010 Spindle motor
11/30/2004US6826005 Disk array unit
11/30/2004US6825622 Production line spindle control circuit employing a sinusoidal driver with back EMF control
11/30/2004CA2182166C Encoding/decoding apparatus providing with input/output interface for external equipment
11/25/2004WO2004102560A1 Optical disc drive, and method of measuring the nominal linear speed v1x of an optical disc
11/25/2004WO2004102559A1 Method for setting data carrier speed in a data carrier drive apparatus
11/25/2004WO2004102555A1 Method for setting data carrier speed in a data carrier drive apparatus
11/25/2004WO2004081919A3 Dual-speed optical record carrier recording apparatus
11/25/2004US20040237072 Data processing system receptive for presentation of data comprising an application program and a multiplatform interpreter, and a platform subsystem arranged for interaction with the multiplatform interpreter and a memory for use with such system for subsystem
11/25/2004US20040236870 Computing system capable of controlling disk loading and disk unloading operations of an optical disk drive
11/25/2004US20040234242 Apparatus for playing back a video content storage medium
11/25/2004US20040233829 Optical disc drive having a function for estimating double refraction in disc
11/25/2004US20040233809 Recording medium with restricted playback feature and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium
11/25/2004US20040233804 Recording medium with restricted playback feature and apparatus and methods for forming, recording, and reproducing the recording medium
11/25/2004US20040233798 Information recording method and apparatus, information reproducing method and apparatus, information recording medium, program storage medium and program
11/25/2004US20040233592 Grounding brush for mitigating electrical current on motor shafts
11/25/2004US20040233576 Fluid dynamic bearing with wear resilient surface
11/25/2004US20040233566 Tamper resistant write once recording of a data storage cartridge having rewritable media
11/25/2004US20040232782 Base plate for spindle motor
11/25/2004US20040232781 Spindle motor
11/25/2004DE102004013577A1 Verfahren und System zum Widerstehen von Stößen in einem Spindelmotorlager Method and system for withstanding shocks in a spindle motor bearings
11/24/2004EP1480211A2 Information reproduction apparatus, information reproduction method and information recording medium for a rotation control program
11/24/2004EP1480204A1 Optical disk, method of manufacturing an optical disk and a reproduction apparatus
11/24/2004EP1479076A2 Recording media assigned to user
11/24/2004CN2658901Y Multidisk type gramophone
11/24/2004CN1550014A Carrier for storage and reproduction arrangement and storage arrangement for processing data not related to the record carrier
11/24/2004CN1550013A Method and apparatus for elapsed playback timekeeping of variable bit-rate digitally encoded audio data files
11/24/2004CN1549265A Disc discriminating method and apparatus for discriminating DVD disc variety
11/24/2004CN1549264A Anti-copying method for optical disc
11/24/2004CN1549255A Method of automatically pausing optical pickup in DVD-RAM disc drive
11/24/2004CN1549249A Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method
11/24/2004CN1177323C Image signal recording regenerating device with power-saving function
11/23/2004US6823371 Computer for a reproducing medium
11/23/2004US6822936 Disc discriminating method and information reproducing apparatus using thereof
11/23/2004US6822825 Stiffness compensation for a thermally compensated fluid dynamic bearing
11/23/2004US6822821 Method and apparatus for predicting a head crash in a disc drive
11/23/2004US6822358 Spindle motor and manufacture thereof
11/18/2004WO2004100148A1 A data storage device and a method of generating a motor control signal therefor
11/18/2004WO2004100147A1 Recording device, and related control method, computer program and system lsi
11/18/2004WO2004100145A1 Combination of disc cartridge and disc drive
11/18/2004WO2004100131A2 Digital device configuration and method
11/18/2004WO2004100002A2 Method and apparatus for controlling an external device using auto-play/auto-pause functions
11/18/2004WO2004099923A2 Remote programming of cd players over a network
11/18/2004WO2004099903A2 Multimedia user interface
11/18/2004WO2004061830A3 Improved optical storage device
11/18/2004US20040228618 Recording medium having data structure for managing to resume reproduction of video data recorded thereon and recording and reproducing methods and apparatuses
11/18/2004US20040228552 Gas Dynamic Pressure Bearing Unit, Spindle Motor, Hard Disk Drive and Polygon Scanner Utilizing Gas Dynamic Pressure Bearing System
11/18/2004US20040228258 Method and apparatus for reading an array of thermal
11/18/2004US20040228249 Recording medium identification apparatus, information reproduction apparatus and information recording apparatus
11/18/2004US20040228248 Recording medium identification apparatus, information reproduction apparatus and information recording apparatus
11/18/2004US20040228244 High-density recording medium and method and apparatus for controlling data playback thereof
11/18/2004US20040228237 Method and apparatus for disc drive data security using fields in servo wedges
11/18/2004US20040228222 Digital audio signal playback apparatus with scratch effect control device
11/18/2004DE19954962B4 Spindelmotor für den Antrieb von Festplattenlaufwerken mit dichtender Kontaktierung für den Statorwicklungsanschluß Spindle motor for driving hard disk drives with sealing contact with the Statorwicklungsanschluß
11/17/2004EP1477980A1 Recording medium identification apparatus, information reproduction apparatus and information recording apparatus
11/17/2004EP1477974A2 Recording medium identification apparatus, information reproduction apparatus and information recording apparatus
11/17/2004EP1477970A1 Disk drive
11/17/2004EP1476870A2 Device and method for controlling playback devices for digital information, especially music information