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)
07/2003
07/22/2003US6598000 Method and apparatus for detecting motion of a motor for a disk drive system
07/22/2003US6597862 Apparatus and method for recording data
07/22/2003US6597857 Interrupting play of audio/visual information
07/22/2003US6597654 Recordable optical disk
07/22/2003US6597649 Recordable optical disk
07/22/2003US6597648 Optical disk having anti-piracy function and method of fabricating and authenticating the optical disk
07/22/2003US6597646 Disk device
07/22/2003US6597645 DVD-audio disk
07/22/2003US6597644 Method and apparatus for sliding an optical pickup
07/22/2003US6597643 Optical disc player
07/22/2003US6597544 Thermoelectric microcoolers for cooling write coils and GMR sensors in magnetic heads for disk drives
07/22/2003US6597532 Information recording disk apparatus
07/22/2003US6597140 Sensorless motor starting system
07/22/2003US6597134 Hard drive spindle motor controller with soft commutation
07/22/2003US6594883 Apparatus and method for setting bearing gaps in an electric motor
07/17/2003US20030135513 Playlist generation, delivery and navigation
07/17/2003US20030133698 Apparatus for processing a control command sequence as well as a method for generating a control command sequence, and a storage medium for storing a control command sequence
07/17/2003US20030133634 Parallel capillary seal for a disk drive
07/17/2003US20030133633 Dynamic pressure type fluid bearing device and method of manufacturing the fluid bearing device
07/17/2003US20030133384 Disk device having real-time and reliability recording modes
07/17/2003US20030133382 Re-read of data read prior to read inhibit for data recovery and validation in a sampled position data storage device
07/17/2003US20030133381 Method to detect a type of disc
07/17/2003US20030133216 Apparatus for recording or/and reproducing information and method for reducing power consumption thereof
07/17/2003US20030132676 Spindle motor
07/17/2003DE10206644C1 Playback device for digitally-stored music information uses control device linked to disc player for controlling playback parameters
07/16/2003EP1327988A1 Retrieval method and an apparatus for a multimedia database
07/16/2003EP1327983A2 Data structure for control information on rewriteable data storage media
07/16/2003EP1327981A2 Recording and reproducing
07/16/2003EP1327980A2 Rotation control apparatus operating with a sync signal having variable intervals
07/16/2003CN1430780A Optical disc data erasing device and optical disc data erasing method
07/16/2003CN1430224A Watching limitting method
07/16/2003CN1430218A Wobbulation singnal checkout circuit and optical disk device
07/16/2003CN1115046C Coding method and device giving multiple searching and reproducing path information to bit stream
07/16/2003CN1114914C Vibration-resistant playback device
07/16/2003CN1114904C Method for discriminating optical disk and optical disk playback device
07/15/2003US6594716 Mixed-signal single-chip integrated system electronics for data storage devices
07/15/2003US6594443 Information signal processing apparatus
07/15/2003US6594225 Disk rotation monitoring mechanism with parallel sensor unit
07/15/2003US6594213 Data recorder
07/15/2003US6594207 Information recording apparatus, information recording system and information recording medium
07/15/2003US6594110 Removable disk drive
07/15/2003US6594109 Disc clamp having adjustable balance ring
07/15/2003US6592262 Bearing performance enhancement utilizing sleeve/hub radial surfaces
07/10/2003WO2003056560A1 Apparatus, method, and computer-readable program for playing back content
07/10/2003WO2003023785A3 Method and apparatus for elapsed playback timekeeping of variable bit-rate digitally encoded audio data files
07/10/2003US20030129665 Performing a cluster designation count with an optical disc and disc drive; assays conducted on cell populations derived from blood, hematological leukemias, lymphomas, bone marrow, and stem cells
07/10/2003US20030128965 Universal storage device for data
07/10/2003US20030128648 Playback device and storage medium
07/10/2003US20030128641 Wobble signal detection circuit and optical disk device
07/10/2003US20030128475 Method and apparatus for detecting free fall
07/10/2003US20030128454 Concurrent read and write access to simulated sequential data of a removable random access data storage medium
07/10/2003US20030126739 Self-aligning fixture for pre-loading and aligning pivot bearing assemblies
07/09/2003EP1326247A1 Optical disc apparatus
07/09/2003EP1326244A2 Apparatus and method of reproducing a recording medium, and program for reproducing a recording medium
07/09/2003EP1325499A2 Information recording/reproducing apparatus and method, recording medium and information recording medium with recording/reproducing control program
07/09/2003EP1325497A2 Optical disc and a reproduction method, reproduction apparatus, and recording apparatus for the same
07/09/2003EP0904586B1 Optical recording method and apparatus using this method
07/09/2003CN1428782A Method and equipment for access control to magnetic disk drive using extended command
07/09/2003CN1428778A Disk clamping mechanism
07/09/2003CN1428769A Method and equipment for optimum recording data on variable speed disk
07/09/2003CN1114208C Optical disk apparatus
07/09/2003CN1114207C Disc drive having self-adjusting turntable
07/09/2003CN1114198C System for storing and reproducing information
07/09/2003CN1114194C Nanometer track CD-enciphering method and CD made using said method
07/08/2003USRE38179 Disk storage device having a three-phase brushless DC underhub configured spindle motor
07/08/2003USRE38178 Disk storage device having an underhub spindle motor
07/08/2003US6590850 Packaging for storage devices using electron emissions
07/08/2003US6590846 Recordable optical disk
07/08/2003US6590840 Recording medium reproduction apparatus
07/08/2003US6590736 Tape or disc record player equipped with standby power-saving means
07/08/2003US6590732 Servo track writer for magnetic disks
07/08/2003US6590730 System for managing power in a portable music player
07/08/2003US6590607 Method and apparatus for storing an uninterrupted digital video stream
07/08/2003US6589626 Copy-protected optical media and method of manufacture thereof
07/08/2003US6589448 Ceramic ball for bearing and ceramic ball bearing using the same
07/03/2003WO2003055222A2 Increasing integrity of watermarks using robust features
07/03/2003WO2003054876A1 Low profile fluid dynamic bearing
07/03/2003WO2003054875A1 Spindle motor for hard disk drives with axial fixing of the bearing system
07/03/2003WO2003054873A2 Apparatus and method for optimizing hydrodynamic groove shape
07/03/2003WO2003054864A2 Record carrier and scanning device
07/03/2003WO2003054684A2 Dual communication port sharing apparatus
07/03/2003US20030126596 Viewing restriction method and apparatus
07/03/2003US20030126460 System and method for securing drive access to data storage media based on medium identifiers
07/03/2003US20030123853 Apparatus, method, and computer-readable program for playing back content
07/03/2003US20030123847 Disk device having real-time and reliability recording modes
07/03/2003US20030123846 Recording apparatus, recording method, playback apparatus, playback method, recording/playback apparatus, recording/playback method, presentation medium and recording medium
07/03/2003US20030123675 Hard disk drive with self-contained active acoustic noise reduction
07/03/2003US20030123375 Rotary driving mechanism
07/03/2003US20030123368 Method of recording a multi-layer optically recordable information carrier
07/03/2003US20030123358 Judgement of optical disc type based on changes of rotating speed of a disc
07/03/2003US20030123356 Apparatus and method of reproducing a recording medium, and program for reproducing a recording medium
07/03/2003US20030123354 Information disk recording/reproducing device, and method for detecting vibration of information disk recording/reproducing device
07/03/2003US20030123353 Optical disc apparatus
07/03/2003US20030123345 Method and apparatus for controlling layer change of optical media
07/03/2003US20030123338 Apparatus and method for providing uninterrupted continuous play during a change of sides of a dual sided optical disk
07/03/2003US20030123176 Method and apparatus for access control of a disk drive using extended command
07/03/2003US20030121308 Apparatus and method for air-contamination detection in disc drive hydrodynamic bearings
07/03/2003CA2471238A1 Record carrier and scanning device
07/02/2003EP1324567A2 Network delivery of interactive entertainment complementing audio recording
07/02/2003EP1324332A2 Information recording medium an reproducing method, truth judging method for the same, and recording/reproducing apparatus for the same