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)
10/2002
10/03/2002US20020141300 Focusing servo apparatus for optical pickup
10/03/2002US20020141299 System and method for controlling interrupts in a control system for an optical disc drive
10/03/2002US20020141296 Method for reorganizing additional writing format storage media volume
10/03/2002US20020141097 Disk apparatus and head position control method
10/03/2002US20020140391 Method and apparatus for controlling spindle motor to match plural modes of operation in a disk drive
10/02/2002EP1246190A1 Device for storing and playing back information recorded on recording medium
10/02/2002EP1246182A2 Rotor assembly, information-recording/-reproducing device using the rotor assembly and method of assembling the rotor assembly
10/02/2002EP1246181A2 Optical disk recording/reproducing apparatus
10/02/2002CN2514460Y CD ROM tray support of touch control and CD control
10/02/2002CN1372686A Disk drive and control method therefor
10/02/2002CN1372684A Optic disk medium and optical disk identification method and optical disk device
10/02/2002CN1372367A Inner rotor motor and magnetic disc using same
10/02/2002CN1372366A Inner rotor motor and magnetic disc using same
10/02/2002CN1372365A Inner rotor motor and magnetic disc using same
10/02/2002CN1372254A Optical recording/reproducing equipment and method for testing track error signal
10/02/2002CN1091918C Copy protectable optical media device and method thereof
10/01/2002US6459852 Image recording apparatus undetachably supporting image pick-up means and recording means and having two operation modes
10/01/2002US6459675 Self-compensating balancer for disk player and turntable for the same
10/01/2002US6459668 Disk type reproducing apparatus and revolution control method
10/01/2002US6459667 Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus having automatic gate signal generation modes
10/01/2002US6459220 Spindle-motor control method, spindle-motor control device, spindle-motor drive circuit and disk device
10/01/2002US6457867 Method and apparatus for replenishing oil in a fluid dynamic bearing using a sleeve groove
09/2002
09/26/2002WO2002075740A1 Audio data management device and method, and recorder
09/26/2002WO2002075737A1 Multiple-area-compatible disk reproducing device
09/26/2002WO2002075735A1 Apparatus and method for digital content concealment
09/26/2002US20020138783 System and method for recovering from performance errors in an optical disc drive
09/26/2002US20020138165 System and method for recording and playing audio selections
09/26/2002US20020136539 Video recording/reproducing apparatus
09/26/2002US20020136534 Digital video recording/playback system with entry point processing function
09/26/2002US20020136131 System and method for handling commands in an optical disc drive
09/26/2002US20020136130 System and method for handling events in an optical disc drive
09/26/2002US20020136127 BEMF timing system
09/26/2002US20020136117 Data reproduction apparatus, data reproduction method, and data reproducing program recording medium
09/26/2002US20020136100 Data cartridge detector
09/26/2002US20020136099 Device for storing and playing back information recorded on recording medium
09/26/2002US20020136098 Optical disc reproducing apparatus
09/26/2002US20020135924 Multi-phase acceleration of a data storage disc
09/26/2002US20020135916 Information write/read device and data read method
09/26/2002US20020135333 Velocity dependent reference profile for spindle motor acceleration control
09/26/2002US20020135263 Stator assembly made from a plurality of toroidal core segments and motor using same
09/26/2002DE10100476A1 Testing of the authenticity of a CD-ROM or DVD by interrogation of a transponder on the data disk each time it is used in a computer, to prevent illegal copying and ensure that only a genuine disk can be loaded and used
09/26/2002CA2690240A1 Data recorder
09/26/2002CA2441817A1 Apparatus and method for digital content concealment
09/25/2002EP1244107A2 Optical disc reproducing apparatus
09/25/2002EP1244097A2 Writing method for optical disc, processing method for information, optical disc apparatus, and information processing apparatus
09/25/2002EP1244095A2 Optical disk, reproducing apparatus and recording apparatus
09/25/2002EP1062665B1 Turntable device and manufacturing method thereof
09/25/2002CN1371514A Actuator shock snubber
09/24/2002US6457128 Optical disk, an optical disk barcode forming method, an optical disk reproduction apparatus, a marking forming apparatus, a method of forming a laser marking on an optical disk, and a method of manufacturing an optical disk
09/24/2002US6456583 Disk player, and turntable incorporating self-compensating dynamic balancer, clamper incorporating self-compensating dynamic balancer and spindle motor incorporating self-compensating dynamic balancer adopted for disk player
09/24/2002US6456578 Optical disk apparatus
09/24/2002US6456573 Information recording and reproducing apparatus
09/24/2002US6456458 Disk-drive motor rotating on a magnetically counterbalanced single hydrodynamic thrust bearing
09/24/2002US6456455 Damped spacer articles and disk drive assemblies containing damped spacer articles
09/24/2002US6456453 Magnetic disk drive in which a body including a chassis is rotatable with reference to a location displaced from the center of gravity of the body
09/24/2002US6455965 Spindle motor having an extended outer ring above a hub
09/24/2002US6455961 Motor with aligned magnetic centers
09/19/2002WO2002073774A1 Airtight structure of electronic device
09/19/2002WO2002049012A3 Device for scanning an electromagnetically suspended information carrier
09/19/2002WO2002047078A3 System and method for protecting digital media
09/19/2002US20020131759 Portable entertainment device
09/19/2002US20020131354 System and method for controlling laser power in an optical disc drive
09/19/2002US20020131353 Information recording and reproducing apparatus
09/19/2002US20020131352 Information playback apparatus, signal processing apparatus, information playback method, and optical recording medium
09/19/2002US20020131350 Writing method for optical disc, processing method for information, optical disc apparatus, and information processing apparatus
09/19/2002US20020131349 Slew system and method
09/19/2002US20020131346 System and method for dynamically re-calibrating an optical disc drive
09/19/2002US20020131345 System and method for controlling time critical operations in a control system for an optical disc drive
09/19/2002US20020131338 System and method for controlling operation of a disc drive for optical media with premastered and read/write sectors
09/19/2002US20020131337 Method and apparatus for tracking servo system
09/19/2002US20020131335 Information recording/reproducing apparatus
09/19/2002US20020131334 Information recording and reproducing apparatus, and control method thereof
09/19/2002US20020131333 Spin motor control in an optical drive
09/19/2002US20020131192 Device and method for monitoring lubricant within a disk drive
09/19/2002US20020130571 Spindle motor having dynamic pressure bearing
09/18/2002EP1241674A2 Information recording and reproducing apparatus
09/18/2002EP1241669A2 Information playback apparatus, signal processing apparatus, information playback method, and optical recording medium
09/18/2002EP1241667A2 Information recording and reproducing apparatus, and control method thereof
09/18/2002EP1241666A2 Information recording/reproducing apparatus
09/18/2002EP1097570B1 Digital video apparatus user interface
09/18/2002CN2512084Y Vibration damper support structure for disc driver
09/18/2002CN1091287C MR head
09/17/2002US6453420 System, method and article of manufacture for authorizing the use of electronic content utilizing a laser-centric medium
09/17/2002US6453395 Copy button on drive
09/17/2002US6453369 Access protection from unauthorized use of memory medium using identifier unique to data storage device
09/17/2002US6452889 Optical disc apparatus accessing method and system therefor
09/17/2002US6452886 Antihacking optical recording disc and method for reading same
09/17/2002US6452884 Information recording method, information recording/reproducing apparatus, and information recording medium
09/17/2002US6452882 Method of compensating for an eccentricity of an optical disc and apparatus for doing the same
09/17/2002US6452881 Suspension design including shaped gimbal arms having a reduced mass portion along a length thereof
09/17/2002US6452877 Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information and/or from optical information record disk
09/17/2002US6452874 Recording medium having content identification section
09/17/2002US6452737 Magnetic disk device and automatic adaptation method of its parameter
09/17/2002US6452455 Capacitor bias recovery methodology
09/12/2002WO2002071574A1 Stator assembly made from a plurality of toroidal core arc segments and motor using same
09/12/2002WO2002071402A1 Spindle motor for hard disc drives with hydrodynamic bearing arrangement
09/12/2002WO2002071197A1 Dormant gui buttons reside unobtrusively in the background upon selection
09/12/2002US20020129200 Apparatus and method for defragmentation in disk storage system
09/12/2002US20020128788 Method for controlling the status of an internal memory (buffer) and control device for same
09/12/2002US20020127004 Method and apparatus for recording manufacturer information on a recording medium and for determining whether the manufacturer information is effective