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)
12/1998
12/08/1998US5848031 Apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a recording medium having automatic track numbering capability
12/08/1998US5847890 Magnetic disk apparatus and a thermal asperity compensation method of the same
12/08/1998US5847664 Remote control assembly for operating audio components in motor vehicles
12/08/1998US5847479 Self-pressure-balanced hydrodynamic bearing spindle motor
12/08/1998US5847476 Audible noise reduction in a disc drive
12/08/1998US5847305 Remote control devices for electronic devices
12/08/1998US5845401 Crash tolerant air bearing spindle
12/03/1998WO1998054720A1 Disc reader with automatic closing tray
12/03/1998WO1998054718A1 Apparatus for reproducing video data of a video compact disc player
12/03/1998WO1998054712A1 Motor loading system for a disk drive
12/03/1998WO1998054711A1 Method and apparatus for outputting video data of a video compact disc player
12/03/1998WO1998036408A3 A magnetic structure urging an actuator assembly toward a home position
12/02/1998EP0881638A1 Optical disc discriminating apparatus
12/02/1998EP0880779A1 Digital processing device for audio signal
12/02/1998CN1200834A Disc drive spindle motor having hydro bearing with optimized lubricant viscosity
12/02/1998CN1200833A Disc drive spindle motor having hydro bearing with lubricant optimized with disc drive compatible additive
12/02/1998CN1200831A Disc drive hydro bearing lubricant with electrically conductive, non-metallic additive
12/02/1998CN1200830A Method and apparatus for reading data from disc carrier
12/02/1998CN1200535A Method and device for controlling information signal recording
12/02/1998CN1041029C Method and circuit for braking and driving of disc system in early stage
12/01/1998US5845046 Multi-scene recording medium and apparatus for producing data therefrom
12/01/1998US5844872 Method and apparatus for high speed data recovery from CD-ROMS or like disks of varying qualities
12/01/1998US5844866 For data recovery from rotating data storage disks of varying physical size
12/01/1998US5844865 System for storing and reproducing information from a disc shaped information carrier
12/01/1998US5844748 Disc drive spindle motor with controlled resistance pathway from disc to ground
12/01/1998US5844395 Speed detection apparatus, speed control motor, and track jump control circuit
11/1998
11/26/1998WO1998053453A1 Method and apparatus for clamping removable data storage disks in a disk drive
11/25/1998EP0880133A1 Optical disk apparatus and accessing methods, and disk cartridges for housing optical disks
11/25/1998EP0880132A2 Pre-pit detecting apparatus and method
11/25/1998EP0880131A2 Apparatus and methods for recording and/or reproducing data on to and/or from optical disks and disk cartridges for such disks
11/25/1998CN1199905A Spindle motor control system for disk player
11/24/1998US5841752 Disc drive unit
11/24/1998US5841742 Optical disk unit using a single demodulator circuit for demodulating two disk players
11/24/1998US5841739 Accessing method and apparatus for use in hybrid optical recording device
11/24/1998US5841610 Miniature hard disc system having single voice coil magnet motor
11/24/1998US5841604 For synchronizing multiple rotating storage disks
11/24/1998US5841260 Disk device with failure prediction function and motor start error prediction method in the device
11/24/1998US5839905 Remote control for indicating specific information to be displayed by a host device
11/24/1998US5839833 Hydrodynamic bearing having lubricant particle traps
11/19/1998WO1998037545A3 Methods and apparatus for preventing disk drive damage due to microprocessor failures
11/19/1998WO1998033173A3 A method and apparatus for controlling a motor in a disc drive by modulating the commutation angle
11/19/1998DE19749103A1 Method of correcting output waveform of magnetic head
11/18/1998EP0878801A2 Image processing apparatus and method
11/18/1998EP0878795A2 Spindle motor control system for a disk player
11/18/1998EP0878794A2 Restriction of reproduction or copying of a recorded information signal
11/18/1998EP0878792A2 Coded data reading and recording apparatus
11/18/1998EP0878006A1 A cd replay device and a method for controlling the same
11/18/1998EP0878005A1 Multihead recording and retrieval apparatus and procedure for use with self-timing optical lathe or pre-formatted discs
11/18/1998CN1199227A Apparatus and method for controlling recording in accordance with remainder of recording medium
11/17/1998US5838824 Encoding/decoding apparatus providing with input/output interface for external equipment
11/17/1998US5838657 High density optical disc and optical disc player
11/17/1998US5838653 Multiple layer optical recording media and method and system for recording and reproducing information using the same
11/17/1998US5838577 Electrical apparatus capable of being connected to plural kinds of peripheral devices
11/17/1998US5838509 Data detection level adjusting circuit for processing signal in disk driving apparatus
11/17/1998US5838020 Method and apparatus for storing data using spin-polarized electrons
11/16/1998CA2237949A1 Image processing apparatus and method
11/14/1998CA2236387A1 Method of restricting reproduction for information signal, information signal reproducing device, and information signal recording medium
11/12/1998WO1998050911A2 Information processing with a plurality of optical discs
11/11/1998EP0877359A2 Optical disk apparatus
11/11/1998EP0877358A1 Method and device for recording data in an optical memory card
11/11/1998EP0789877A4 System and method for on-line, real-time, data migration
11/11/1998EP0611474B1 On-the-fly splitting of disk data blocks
11/11/1998CN1198830A Disc driver
11/11/1998CN1198571A Device and method for determing CD type before reproducing data in CD
11/10/1998US5835671 Data recording medium having reproduction timing information, and system for reproducing record data by using the reproduction timing information
11/10/1998US5835670 Multilingual recording medium and reproduction apparatus
11/10/1998US5835669 Multilingual recording medium which comprises frequency of use data/history data and a plurality of menus which are stored in a still picture format
11/10/1998US5835474 Disk device configured to prevent contact between the disk and the disk drive motor
11/10/1998US5835466 Optical system for optical disc having first and second information
11/10/1998US5835465 File manager in an execution program of a host computer
11/10/1998US5835464 For reproducing data stored on a disc
11/10/1998US5835463 Spindle motor control system for use in an optical disk player
11/10/1998US5835315 Wafer including scribe line grooves for separating thin film heads and process for making the same
11/10/1998US5835310 Insertable miniature hard disc drive having a reduced size transducer head suspension
11/10/1998US5835303 Disk drive information storage device
11/10/1998US5835299 Method for optimizing skew of hard disk drive
11/10/1998US5835298 Hard drive protection system and method
11/10/1998US5835297 Computer system
11/10/1998US5835015 Security system for audio equipment
11/10/1998US5834969 Circuit for processing signals from a magneto-resistive head
11/10/1998US5834913 Method and apparatus for controlling motor rotation, and a disk signal regenerating apparatus using the motor
11/10/1998US5834868 Spindle motor
11/10/1998US5834864 Magnetic micro-mover
11/10/1998US5833470 Information/entertainment systems with user prompts
11/05/1998WO1998033174A3 Disk drive failure analysis apparatus and method
11/05/1998WO1998032091A3 Deployable drive for protruding rotatable data storage media
11/05/1998WO1998031010A3 Apparatus for monitoring and preventing unauthorized copying of digital data
11/04/1998EP0875894A2 Reproducing recording media
11/04/1998EP0875893A2 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
11/04/1998EP0875892A1 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording medium
11/04/1998CN1198239A Magnetic disk apparatus magnetic disk and disk cartridge
11/03/1998US5832175 Apparatus and method for reproducing, based on parental consent, data from a multi-scene recording medium having data units of program information items alternatingly and continuously recorded thereon
11/03/1998US5831967 Cartridge for preventing misinsertion
11/03/1998US5831966 Recording layer identifying data in a multi-layer recording medium
11/03/1998US5831953 Optical disk device using an optical pickup as a read mechanism for detecting a thickness of the substrate of an optical disk
11/03/1998US5831952 Optical disk thickness discriminating apparatus
11/03/1998US5831792 Slider having a debris barrier surrounding a transducer
11/03/1998US5831789 Disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a disc cassette loading/discharging mechanism with a lock member responsive to a cassette insertion to unlock a sliding member
11/03/1998US5831783 Power source control circuit for controlling an electric potential of a magnetic head and memory apparatus using such a power source control circuit
11/03/1998US5831782 Method and apparatus for supplying optimal bias current to a magnetic head