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)
10/1996
10/01/1996US5561575 Foot-controlled operational mechanism for specialized cassette players
10/01/1996US5561566 Information recording disk and drive system using no sector ID to increase data storage capacity
10/01/1996US5560717 Compound ball bearing
10/01/1996CA2091719C Card reader with antiabrasion member
09/1996
09/30/1996CA2145831A1 Batteryless spring-powered portable cassette player
09/26/1996WO1996029698A1 Disk apparatus and disk access method
09/26/1996DE19547815A1 Magnetic disc drive read-write device
09/25/1996EP0305480B1 In-spindle motor assembly for disk drive and method for fabricating the same
09/25/1996CN1131798A Improvements in self-servowriting timing pattern generation
09/25/1996CN1131797A Optical disc reproducing method and apparatus
09/25/1996CN1131789A Method and apparatus for detecting degradation in data storage system spindle motor performance
09/24/1996US5559780 Recording apparatus for an optical recording medium
09/24/1996US5559778 Apparatus and method for completing an incomplete recording on an optical disc
09/24/1996US5559776 Disk playback apparatus
09/24/1996US5559769 Recording/reproducing apparatus for both read-only and magneto-optical disc-shaped recording medium
09/24/1996US5559651 Magnetic disc storage system with hydrodynamic bearing
09/24/1996US5559647 Magnetic disk controller which avoids erroneous write operations to ZBR-type magnetic disks upon detection of a next sector mark from the ZBR magnetic disk
09/24/1996US5559607 Apparatus for controlling reproduction speed for laser disc player
09/24/1996US5559414 Control unit of direct-current motor
09/24/1996US5559382 Spindle motor
09/19/1996WO1996028821A1 A cd replay device and a method for controlling the same
09/19/1996WO1996028820A1 Read/write protect scheme for a disk cartridge and drive
09/19/1996WO1996028816A2 Device for optically scanning a recording medium
09/19/1996WO1996028811A1 Disk drive system and removable disk cartridge adapted for downward compatibility
09/19/1996WO1996022600A3 Fm detection of slider-disk interface
09/19/1996WO1996022596A3 Non-destructive in-situ landing velocity determination of magnetic rigid disk drives
09/18/1996EP0732696A2 Rotating storage device and method
09/18/1996EP0732695A2 Microfile
09/18/1996EP0732694A2 Integrated data storage disk and disk drive
09/18/1996EP0731971A1 Multimedia system receptive for presentation of mass data comprising an application program inclusive of a multiplatform interpreter, and a platform subsystem arranged for interaction with said multiplatform interpreter, and mass memory for use with such system or subsystem
09/18/1996EP0731970A1 Rom-ram-disk
09/18/1996EP0623255B1 Disk spindle motor
09/18/1996EP0446261B1 Improved disc unit
09/18/1996CN1131314A Optical recording medium
09/18/1996CN1131310A Video-song accompaniment apparatus using CD and having double use of CD-ROM driver
09/17/1996US5557589 Disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus that positions the magnetic head in response to a type of disc
09/17/1996US5557550 Junction temperature status sensing and reduction for integrated power devices, such as a head positioning system in a magnetic disc drive
09/17/1996US5557487 Disk storage drive having particular diameter relationship and axial compactness
09/17/1996US5557486 Thin external memory unit with hard disk
09/17/1996US5557480 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for displaying data differently in recording and reproduction
09/17/1996US5557274 Ad converter and magnetic recording/regenerating apparatus using the same
09/17/1996US5557184 Spindle motor controlling circuit of an optical disk system
09/17/1996US5557183 Method and apparatus for predicting failure of a disk drive
09/12/1996WO1996027881A1 Device and method for reproducing data from disk, method for controlling rotation of disk, and reproduction clock generating device
09/11/1996EP0731465A1 Disk transporting device
09/11/1996EP0731457A2 Optical pick-up apparatus capable of reading data irrespective of disc type
09/11/1996EP0731454A1 Optical recording method, optical recording apparatus and optical recording medium
09/11/1996EP0731420A2 System for optically recording/reproducing multimedia information using code data
09/11/1996CN1130953A Data recorder
09/11/1996CN1130791A Method and apparatus for disk reproduction, and disk and cards used for disk reproduction apparatus
09/11/1996CN1130787A Different track searching method for video compact disc recording/reproducing system and apparatus thereof
09/11/1996CN1130786A Video compact disc having caption data recorded thereon and reproducing method and apparatus thereof
09/11/1996CN1130776A Apparatus for reading payment card
09/10/1996US5555140 Synchronized spindle control in disk drives with at least two data per rotation of disk
09/05/1996DE3816832C2 Verfahren zur Übertragung von in einem CD(V)-Hilfskanal gespeicherten Informationen Method for transmitting in a CD (V) -Hilfskanal stored information
09/04/1996EP0729621A1 System and method for controlling play of multiple audio tracks of a software carrier
09/04/1996EP0535018B1 Low noise spin motor for use in disk drive
09/04/1996EP0325325B1 System for transferring information using an information carrier
09/04/1996CN1130436A System architecture for HDD
09/03/1996US5553044 Optical recording method and apparatus for enabling interchange of dissimilar recording media
09/03/1996US5553042 Optical disk recording device
09/03/1996US5553041 Disc data reproducing apparatus and signal processing unit for preventing underflow and overflow
09/03/1996US5552945 Transducer recalibration system and method for a rotating disk data storage
08/1996
08/28/1996EP0729147A2 Disc player
08/28/1996EP0728358A1 System and method for authenticating software carriers
08/28/1996EP0728357A1 1.8''pcmcia compatible drive having two or more disks
08/28/1996CN1032669C Disc recording/reproducing apparatus
08/27/1996US5551024 System for identifying data records in a database using a data structure with linked parameters in a search range
08/27/1996US5550689 Magnetic fluid seal and ground path for low profile disk drives
08/27/1996US5550688 Crash stop shock ring for the protection of disk drive motor bearings
08/27/1996US5550682 Mode discrimination circuit for an image recording/playback system utilizing peak detectors
08/27/1996CA2084722C Information recording and reproduction apparatus
08/22/1996WO1996025734A1 Magnetic recording reproduction system employing a variable reluctance gap shunt
08/22/1996WO1996025606A1 Hydrodynamic bearing having inverted surface tension seals
08/21/1996EP0727776A1 Objective lens driving device and optical information recording/regenerating device
08/21/1996EP0727775A2 Optical disc apparatus
08/21/1996EP0727074A1 Data block format for software carrier and player therefor
08/21/1996CN1129490A Ultra-slim disk storage unit
08/20/1996US5548784 Automatic disk change detection without causing head movement by step pulses
08/20/1996US5548599 Method and apparatus for processing information data
08/20/1996US5548458 In a hard disc drive assembly
08/20/1996US5548453 Reproducing circuit for magneto-resistive head having an initial amplifying stage, a differential amplifying stage, and means for controlling the time of operation thereof
08/14/1996EP0726572A1 Optical disk and optical disk drive device
08/14/1996EP0726564A1 Optical disc system
08/14/1996EP0726016A1 System and method for disk software publishers to control disk distribution
08/14/1996EP0726014A1 Display of motion picture subtitles in a selected language during play of a software carrier
08/14/1996EP0726013A1 System and method for controlling play of multiple versions of same motion picture stored on optical disk
08/14/1996EP0726012A1 An audio and video disc reproducing apparatus
08/14/1996DE3348445C2 Generating index pulses proportional to disk drive motor revolutions
08/13/1996US5546369 Optical disk system for recording and reproducing a mini disk and standard compact discs
08/13/1996US5546365 Record carriers containing a user's preferred order of reproduction of items of information included therein, and apparatus for use with and/or for creating such record carriers
08/13/1996US5546337 Method and apparatus for storing data using spin-polarized electrons
08/13/1996US5545989 Non-destructive in-situ landing velocity determination of magnetic rigid disk drives using back EMF from the spindle motor during shutdown
08/13/1996CA2006142C Recording/reproducing device
08/08/1996WO1996024209A1 Cd-prom
08/08/1996WO1996024130A1 Device for reproducing optical recording medium
08/07/1996EP0725395A2 Optical pickup apparatus and identification apparatus for identifying the type of optical record medium
08/07/1996CN1128386A Apparatus and method for providing multimedia data
08/06/1996US5544165 Disk recording apparatus for generating search positional information indicative of marked points on a disk
08/06/1996US5544145 Regeneration of photographic data stored in a CD-player