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)
08/1996
08/06/1996US5544138 Adaptive system for optimizing disk drive power consumption
08/06/1996US5543984 Disk drive with fluid bearing, bearing plate and disk-moving mechanism
08/06/1996US5543983 Servo controlled lubricant thickness for near magnetic recording
08/06/1996US5543979 Preamplifier circuit arrangements for common current flow in a transducer
08/06/1996US5543697 Circuit and method for controlling the speed of a motor
07/1996
07/31/1996EP0724264A2 A recording medium on which a data containing navigation data is recorded, a method and apparatus for reproducing a data according to navigation data, a method and apparatus for recording a data containing navigation data on a recording medium, and a system for transferring data via a communication route on the basis of navigation data
07/31/1996EP0724263A2 Disc-shaped recording medium, recording apparatus and reproducing apparatus
07/31/1996EP0724256A2 Optical disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus for performing optimizing operation for servo control with recording and/or reproducing operation
07/31/1996CN1127965A Apparatus and method for processing words/sound in kara OK system
07/31/1996CN1127915A Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for discshaped recording medium and memory control device thcontrol
07/31/1996CN1127914A MR read transducer with thermal noise cancellation
07/30/1996US5542023 Multi-media reproduction processing apparatus
07/30/1996US5541907 Circuit for discriminating pre-mastered pits and pre-mastered grooves on optical disk
07/30/1996US5541905 Disk player that visually indicates the type of disk loaded into it
07/30/1996US5541900 Optical information recording and reproducing apparatus and method for different spot size type media
07/30/1996US5541783 Disk recording medium and disk drive unit wherein the product of the number of servo areas and the recording/reproduction mode switching time of the head amplifiers is 1200 or less
07/30/1996US5541460 Passive magnetic bearings for a spindle motor
07/30/1996US5540504 Shock resistant bearing
07/28/1996CA2168076A1 Power supply controller for magnetic disk apparatus
07/26/1996CA2167549A1 Optical disc system
07/25/1996WO1996022600A2 Fm detection of slider-disk interface
07/25/1996WO1996022596A2 Non-destructive in-situ landing velocity determination of magnetic rigid disk drives
07/24/1996EP0699321A4 Compact disk data transfer system using cache memory
07/24/1996CN1127408A Apparatus for adjusting reproduction speed of laser disc player
07/24/1996CN1127401A Integral hub and disk clamp for a disk drive storage device
07/23/1996US5539879 In a computer
07/23/1996US5539724 Optical disk having wobbled, discontinuous grooves
07/23/1996US5539723 Method, apparatus, and medium for recording information in data sections having number of bytes which increase in circumference of tracks on medium
07/23/1996US5539711 Optical disc drive apparatus
07/23/1996US5539710 Video optical disk system compatible with both read only and writable optical disks having the same recording format
07/23/1996US5539600 Write protection for memory diskettes
07/23/1996US5539595 Structure and enclosure assembly for a disk drive
07/23/1996US5539592 System and method for monitoring friction between head and disk to predict head disk interaction failure in direct access storage devices
07/23/1996US5539590 Floppy disk controller allowed to detect status change of floppy disk driver in standby mode
07/18/1996WO1996021927A1 Disk drive stiction release system
07/17/1996EP0722169A2 Playback apparatus having a spindle servo controller
07/17/1996CN1127049A Method and apparatus for preventing illegal copying and illegal installation of information on optical recording medium
07/17/1996CN1126875A Disc player
07/16/1996US5537537 Disc driving apparatus
07/16/1996US5537387 Information storage disk with display data recorded in a lead-in region and an apparatus for recording and/reproducing the disc
07/16/1996US5537379 Optical data storage and retrieval system and method
07/16/1996US5537270 Disk drive apparatus
07/16/1996US5537216 Circuit for including a copy-inhibit signal with a video signal
07/16/1996US5537034 Method for mapping thermal asperities of a magnetic recording surface in data storage device
07/16/1996US5536088 Fluid bearings for electronic spindle motors
07/16/1996CA2044426C Information recording and reproducing device
07/11/1996WO1996021223A1 Improved digital optical compact disc and compact disc player
07/11/1996WO1996021222A1 Three-dimensional optical data storage and retrieval
07/10/1996EP0721187A2 Exchangeable storage apparatus, recording medium drive actuator, head drive actuator, and recording medium cartridge
07/10/1996EP0721184A2 Improvements in self-servowriting timing pattern generation
07/09/1996US5535184 Reproducing apparatus having a single microprocessor to perform data retrieval disc reproduction control
07/09/1996US5535183 Optical disk reproducing device and its seek operation method
07/09/1996US5535182 Optical disk apparatus and recording/reproduction method therefor
07/09/1996US5535073 Tribo-attractive contact data storage system
07/09/1996US5535072 Removable cartridge disk drive with cartridge interlocking and spindle motor telescoping mechanisms
07/09/1996US5534818 Preamplifier noise filtering circuit
07/09/1996US5534758 Optical disk drive circuit and optical disk drive device using the same
07/09/1996US5533812 Single plate hydrodynamic bearing with self-balancing fluid level
07/09/1996US5533811 Hydrodynamic bearing having inverted surface tension seals
07/09/1996CA2050152C Transducer head skew arrangement for disk drive system
07/04/1996WO1996011532A3 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
07/03/1996EP0720285A2 Differential amplifier with proxy load for control of output common mode range
07/03/1996EP0720168A2 Bearing installation in a floppy disk driver motor
07/03/1996EP0720167A2 Flat type brushless motor
07/03/1996EP0720157A2 Video compact disc drive
07/03/1996EP0720150A2 Symmetrical resistive transducer biasing circuit and methods
07/02/1996US5533003 Recording device capable of detecting the change in length and position of the pit edge
07/02/1996US5533000 Disk apparatus including a disk driving member adapted to hold two different size disks
07/02/1996US5532992 Recording and reproducing method for writable type disk driving apparatus
07/02/1996US5532889 Winchester drive card including an actuator arm body, actuator arm plates, and a VCM magnet external to a controlled environment
07/02/1996US5532563 Disk device with auxiliary battery and start method thereof
06/1996
06/27/1996EP0728358A4 System and method for authenticating software carriers
06/27/1996DE19547737A1 Disk drive for reproducing information stored on disk
06/27/1996DE19545771A1 Datendetektionspegeleinstellschaltung für die Verarbeitung von Signalen in einem Plattenlaufwerk Datendetektionspegeleinstellschaltung for the processing of signals in a disk drive
06/26/1996EP0718845A2 A recording medium having a first management area for managing a first attribute and a second management area for managing a second attribute of a program recorded in recording area and a reproducing apparatus for reproducing the recording medium
06/26/1996EP0718840A2 Data recording medium and apparatus
06/26/1996EP0718839A2 Balanced hard disk assembly and method for balancing
06/26/1996EP0718838A2 Security check method for a game device
06/26/1996EP0718832A1 Reproduction of optical discs
06/26/1996EP0718751A2 Electronic circuit apparatus employing small disk drive with reconfigurable interface
06/25/1996US5530898 Digital recorder for storing audio data on tracks with specific operation modes inputted manually where soundless portion data is inserted based on respective operation modes
06/25/1996US5530819 System and method for mapping directly accessible magnetic DASD storage to fixed block optical storage
06/25/1996US5530686 Record carrier having a track including audio information and additional non-audio information, and apparatus for reading and/or reproducing certain of the information included in such a track
06/25/1996US5530602 Disk drive micromotion starting apparatus and method
06/25/1996US5529404 Adhesiveless assembly with laser welding
06/20/1996DE4445012A1 Electronic game with vibration-protective memory control
06/20/1996DE4203407C2 Verfahren zur Programm-Archivierung in einem Videobandrecorder Process for program archiving in a video tape recorder
06/19/1996EP0717408A1 Vibration-resistant reproducing apparatus
06/19/1996EP0717406A1 Vibration-resistant reproducing apparatus
06/19/1996CN2229289Y Plush toy capable of automatic recording and replaying
06/18/1996US5528577 Apparatus and method for reading at least partially unmetallized optical discs
06/18/1996US5528574 Disk reproducing apparatus capable of increasing speed of access to disks recorded at constant linear velocity
06/18/1996US5528573 Method and apparatus for controlling rotation of an optical disk
06/18/1996US5528570 Apparatus for recording and reproducing data on a magneto-optical disc at a data transfer rate which is the same as that of data reproduced from a compact disc
06/18/1996US5528436 Low profile motor powered disk assembly for a recording/reproducing device
06/18/1996US5528092 Spindle motor
06/18/1996US5527110 Method and apparatus for detecting asperities on magnetic disks using thermal proximity imaging
06/12/1996EP0716534A1 Credit cards reading device
06/12/1996EP0716420A2 Information processing apparatus with means for outputting signal representing relative position between head and medium
06/12/1996EP0716417A2 Information processing apparatus provided with mechanism for controlling position of probe