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)
04/2000
04/25/2000US6055127 Disc head slider having surface discontinuities to minimize fly stiction
04/25/2000US6055126 Disc drive having hydrodynamic labyrinth seal and magnet shield
04/25/2000US6055120 Disk drive start-up failure detection under disparate conditions
04/25/2000US6055118 Holding automatic gain control levels during read error recovery in a disc drive
04/25/2000US6054825 Method and apparatus for high voltage generation
04/25/2000US6054330 Method for protecting a magnetoresistive sensor element
04/23/2000CA2287153A1 A method and apparatus for controlling the scrolling and/or reading of a medium
04/20/2000DE19943679A1 Combined multiple CD and radio receiver system for automobiles, uses the same buttons for similar operations for the radio and CD player dependent on which is in use
04/19/2000EP0994478A1 Head control unit for a disk apparatus
04/19/2000EP0994477A1 Disk drive capable of rereading same signal from disk in case of error in read signal
04/19/2000EP0994474A1 Disc drive and control thereof
04/19/2000EP0994467A2 Head control unit in a disk apparatus
04/19/2000CN1250968A Rotor assembling method, and motor having such rotor
04/18/2000US6052804 Data transfer optimization through sector evaluation and reallocation during a disc drive idle mode
04/18/2000US6052791 Control method for a hard disk drive and a data processor reducing power consumption of the hard disk drive
04/18/2000US6052510 Apparatus for recording, reproduction or erasing
04/18/2000US6052465 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
04/18/2000US6052344 Disk type, determining apparatus, optical disk reproducing apparatus and tracking error signal generating apparatus
04/18/2000US6052249 Method and apparatus for data storage using thermal proximity imaging
04/18/2000US6052244 Servo signal processing apparatus, recorded data reading apparatus and method for processing servo signal
04/18/2000US6052243 Magnetic disk unit for detecting contact between a magnetic head slider and a magnetic disk and method therefor
04/18/2000US6052241 Method and apparatus for minimizing erasure errors during information recording/reproducing
04/18/2000US6050729 Compound ball bearing
04/18/2000US6050728 Compound ball bearing type pulley
04/18/2000CA2120522C Head switching method for staggered servo and circuit thereof
04/13/2000WO2000021177A1 Power supply circuit with function of preventing reverse flow noise
04/13/2000WO2000021090A1 Method and device for manually controlling the direction and speed for data reading with a control disc
04/13/2000WO2000021085A1 System for copy protection of recorded information
04/13/2000WO2000021084A1 Data conversion apparatus with safety circuit
04/13/2000CA2350649A1 Method and device for manually controlling the direction and speed for data reading with a control disc
04/12/2000EP0992995A1 Driving device and servo method
04/12/2000EP0992988A2 Optical disk apparatus
04/12/2000EP0992037A2 Apparatus for reproducing information from a record carrier
04/12/2000EP0991868A1 Rotary air bearing and process for manufacturing the same
04/12/2000CN1250213A Method and equipment for recording and playbacking information on disc
04/11/2000US6049843 System for data communication between disk adapter and disk cartridge drive where adapter controller assigns specific track to formatted data to be sent to drive
04/11/2000US6049520 Drive mechanism for rotating storage media
04/11/2000US6049518 Optical disc recording/reproducing apparatus recording/reproducing information to/from optical discs according to different standards
04/11/2000US6049516 Information recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus in which a servo process of a light beam is interrupted between input/output control of data at predetermined periods
04/11/2000US6049439 Data error recovery using reduced speed
04/11/2000CA2168327C A recording medium on which a data containing navigation data is recorded, a method and apparatus for reproducing a data according to navigationdata, a method and apparatus for recording a data containing navigation data on a recording medium.
04/06/2000WO2000019430A1 Latent irradiance discrimination method and marker system for cartridgeless data storage disks
04/06/2000WO2000019426A1 Optical disk reproduction apparatus and method for controlling optical disk reproduction apparatus
04/06/2000DE19947326A1 Disc type detector for playback of optical discs, uses decision on disc type by detects peaks on inner circumference of disc to set playback conditions
04/05/2000EP0991056A2 Disk recording or playback device and method of adjusting initial position of pickup thereof
04/05/2000EP0990231A1 Identification of program information on a recording medium
04/05/2000CN1249517A System for insertion of additional information in audio data
04/05/2000CN1249511A Disk record system and method for controlling rotating of rotary disk in system
04/05/2000CN1249508A CD replacer
04/05/2000CN1249504A Disk recording/replaying unit and its pick-up initial position adjusting method
04/04/2000US6047341 Disk-cartridge-type adapter including sensor and processor supplying power from power source to drive interface upon detecting rotation of magnet according to sensor output
04/04/2000US6047223 Electronic computer having a magneto-optic unit
04/04/2000US6047103 Data transmitter, data transmitting method, data receiver, information processor, and information recording medium
04/04/2000US6046970 System for creating, reading and writing on rotatable storage media, an apparatus for determining laser aging characteristics
04/04/2000US6046969 Multiple clock tracks for erasable and rewriteable optical disks
04/04/2000US6046881 Compact data storage unit having spiral groove bearings
04/04/2000US6046880 Device for blocking insertion of undersized objects
04/04/2000US6046871 Magnetic recording head slider with piezoelectric sensor for measuring slider to disc interference levels
04/04/2000US6046870 Magnetic disk apparatus having noise detection
04/04/2000US6046559 Motor control method and disk unit
04/04/2000US6045113 Frame damper
04/04/2000CA2192080C Information storage and information transmission media with parental control
04/04/2000CA2033430C Disc player and disc loading device
03/2000
03/30/2000DE19946498A1 Disc player has disc transport unit with drive, detection section with first sensor that detects start of disc insertion, start state for re-insertion of disc and dia. of disc
03/29/2000EP0989561A1 A device to install a compact disk media write protect device
03/29/2000EP0989558A1 System and method for data error recovery
03/29/2000EP0989553A2 Information recording apparatus and method for same, information playback apparatus, information protection apparatus, and information recording medium
03/29/2000EP0989552A2 Disk drive apparatus and motor
03/29/2000EP0602581B1 Recording and reproducing apparatus for data storage and/or audio
03/29/2000CN2371640Y Driver for gramophone record
03/29/2000CN2371639Y Vcr自动控制器 Vcr automatic controller
03/29/2000CN1248768A Information recording method and device, reproducing device, protective method and recording medium
03/29/2000CN1248766A Compact disc, method and device for recording/reproducing additive information in CD
03/29/2000CN1248764A Device for installing optical disc medium write protector and making it miniaturizing
03/28/2000US6044436 Recording/reproducing apparatus including file management information
03/28/2000US6044055 Phase change recording apparatus having front and rear pulse changing means
03/28/2000US6044052 Method and apparatus for high speed data recovery from CD-ROMs or like disks of varying qualities
03/28/2000US6044049 Optical information apparatus employing two different tracking error signals based on regions on information medium
03/28/2000US6044047 Storing CD Segments for quick scanning in multi-CD players
03/28/2000US6043950 Apparatus of controlling disk drive during initial stages of wake-up mode and method thereof
03/28/2000US6043946 Read error recovery utilizing ECC and read channel quality indicators
03/28/2000US6043828 Method and apparatus for handling proprietary and non-proprietary formatted compact discs in the same video playback system
03/28/2000US6043618 Motor driving apparatus having back-gate-floating MOSFET for avoiding reverse current
03/28/2000US6041703 Compact disc printing system and method
03/28/2000CA2034330C Recording apparatus for magneto-optical disc and disc cartridge misinsertion preventing mechanism
03/23/2000WO2000016337A1 Disc drive with preamplifier fault detection for data integrity
03/23/2000WO2000016323A1 Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method
03/23/2000WO2000016322A1 Optical data recording method, and data recording medium
03/22/2000EP0987707A2 Optical disc reproduction device and reproduction method which can achieve a dynamic switching of the reproduced content
03/22/2000EP0987706A2 System and method for measuring relative and absolute amplitudes of a signal read from a data storage medium
03/22/2000EP0987704A1 Optical disc drive and method of discriminating various types of optical discs
03/22/2000EP0987703A2 Disc player, and disc playback method
03/22/2000EP0987698A1 Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method
03/22/2000EP0987697A1 Recording medium, recording apparatus and recording method
03/22/2000EP0987696A1 Optical data recording method, and data recording medium
03/22/2000EP0987695A1 Optical data recording method, and data recording medium
03/22/2000EP0987694A1 Optical data recording method, and data recording medium
03/22/2000EP0987693A1 Optical data recording method, and data recording medium
03/22/2000EP0987692A1 Optical data recording method, and data recording medium
03/22/2000EP0986815A1 Method and device for testing the safety of a data carrier