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US-6,084,850 Method for optical data storage and optical data storage media
In a method for optical data storage with high density, there are employed as the data carrying medium a number of flat, thin memory components in the form of...
US-6,084,849 Shape memory alloy recording medium, storage devices based thereon, and method for using these storage devices
The present invention concerns a storage medium for scanning probe storage devices. This storage medium comprises a substrate (20) carrying a shape memory alloy...
US-6,084,848 Two-dimensional near field optical memory head
Disclosed is an optical memory head in which a vertical cavity surface emitting laser array constituted by laying out, in a matrix form, a large number of...
US-6,084,847 Light pickup
An optical pickup capable of recording or reproducing information from optical disks having different recording densities includes a first optical unit having a...
US-6,084,846 Liquid immersion lens for optical data storage
A slider for an optical read head includes a liquid-immersion-lens between an objective lens and an optically transparent base of the slider. The ...
US-6,084,845 Optical head and an optical disk apparatus
An optical head has a first light source; a second light source; a transmitting and reflecting element having a first surface and a second surface, and used to...
US-6,084,844 Optical head assembly
An optical head assembly comprises a laser light source, an objective lens for converging laser light rays emitted from the laser light source at an optical...
US-6,084,843 Optical recording and reproducing apparatus and method
The present invention provides a compact recording and reproducing apparatus capable of playing back DVD and CDs including CD-R. This apparatus comprises a means...
US-6,084,842 Reflective light beam focusing device with multiple focal points
A multiple focal light beam generating device is provided with a multiple focal mirror device, to which a light beam is incident from a front side thereof. The...
US-6,084,841 Optical pickup device having heat radiating mechanism
An optical pickup device includes at least four light-receiving-surface elements, at least two semiconductor lasers, and an optical system for irradiating a...
US-6,084,840 Optical pickup for use with a recording medium
An optical pickup is provided which includes a light source and an objective lens for converging incident light from the light source onto a recording medium....
US-6,084,839 Method of reducing formatting time for rewritable compact disks by formatting less than the entire logical format
A method of formatting rewritable compact optical disks. In some example embodiments, a disk is initially partially formatted for immediate useability, and then...
US-6,084,838 Disc transfer apparatus for disc player
Provision of a disc transfer apparatus for a disc player, which is free from damage to disc, small in size and simple in construction. A push-back member and a...
US-6,084,837 Apparatus for reproducing information recorded on a recording medium, having a crosstalk reducing circuit
An apparatus for reproducing information recorded on a recording medium includes a signal reader for outputting signals read from a main track on the recording...
US-6,084,836 Defect detection apparatus for detecting defects on a recording medium and reading apparatus incorporating the...
A defect detection apparatus has a simple constitution and performs accurate defect detection while clearly differentiating between defect detection and tracking...
US-6,084,835 Device for scanning optical discs using phase detection in a system with significant objective lens movement
Tracking error signal in an optical read/write device, such as a CD ROM, are fine tuned for deviations in the positions of the lens structure normal to the...
US-6,084,834 Optical pickup with a compact design
An optical pickup includes an objective-lens driving device including a movable section provided with an objective lens, a focusing coil, and tracking coils, and...
US-6,084,833 System for storing a plurality of recorded mediums in a reproducing system
A plurality of rotary circular racks are vertically disposed. Each of the racks has a plurality of radial slits, for storing recording mediums, and a radially...
US-6,084,832 Automatic disc changer for a disc reproducing device
An automatic disc changer having a disc player, a disc holder for storing a plurality of discs, and a disc loading device for carrying a disc from the disc...
US-6,084,831 Apparatus and method of averaging disk transfer rate including division of disks into disks accessible in a...
A disc control apparatus handles an even number of disc-shaped recording mediums run in rotation at a constant angular velocity and to which addresses are...
US-6,084,830 Signal reproducing apparatus for reproducing information by moving magnetic walls
A micro mark on a magnetic recording medium is reproduced in a signal reproducing apparatus by causing a magnetic wall to move on the recording medium. A partial...
US-6,084,829 Information apparatus capable of selectively recording audio signal
An apparatus for recording, storing and retrieving electronic information allows the division of incoming information into separate events or portions of an...
US-6,084,828 Timepiece and chronometer with overlapping, separately driven analog and digital displays
A timepiece and chronometer with a superimposed analog/digital display arrangement. The timepiece comprises a watch case with a back and a display area, a...
US-6,084,827 Dual-head multibeam sonar apparatus and method for tracking objects underwater
An apparatus and method are provided for tracking the position in three dimensions of one or more objects underwater. Two multibeam sonar heads are positioned to...
US-6,084,826 Measurement-while-drilling acoustic system employing multiple, segmented transmitters and receivers
This invention is directed toward apparatus and methods for obtaining acoustic measurements or "logs" of earth formations penetrated by a borehole. More...
US-6,084,825 Apparatus and methods for seismic data processing
A method of determining an optimum processing sequence by calculation of processing sequence sensitivity and processing sequence error. A reference seismic...
US-6,084,824 Optical card reader including mechanical scanning assembly
An optical reader includes a mechanical scanning assembly for scanning an optical card such as an OC-ROM. The scanning assembly includes a linear LED array, a...
US-6,084,823 Synchronous semiconductor memory device and bus control method
There is provided a semiconductor integrated circuit memory comprising banks each having at least one memory cell array and connected to a first data bus. Each...
US-6,084,822 Semiconductor synchronous memory device responsive to external masking signal for forcing data port to enter...
A synchronous dynamic random access memory device is responsive to external commands so as to write a data bit into and read out the data bit from a memory cell...
US-6,084,821 Semiconductor storage device having a divided word line structure
There is described a divided word line semiconductor storage device including a plurality of sub-word lines each having an open end and a main word line provided...
US-6,084,820 Dual port memory device with vertical shielding
A dual port memory device comprises a first group of bit lines corresponding to a first port of the device, a second group of bit lines corresponding to a second...
US-6,084,819 Multi-bank memory with word-line banking
A multiple bank memory array includes a combined memory array, an X-decoder, a first word-line driver, a second word-line driver, a reference column, a...
US-6,084,818 Semiconductor memory device capable of efficient memory cell select operation with reduced element count
Four subordinate word lines are driven for a single main word line. In a subordinate word driver circuit, a bank select line activated allows a potential level...
US-6,084,817 Semiconductor memory with transfer buffer structure
A plurality of sense amplifiers are provided between a plurality of memory cell arrays having a plurality of memory cells. These sense amplifiers are connected...
US-6,084,816 Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array having memory cells arranged in rows and columns. Bit lines are coupled to the memory cells in...
US-6,084,815 Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes plural fuse wiring paths which extend substantially parallel to each other in a first direction, each of the fuse wiring paths...
US-6,084,814 Antifuse detection circuit
An antifuse detection circuit is described which uses a latching circuit and two antifuses. The antifuses are coupled between the latch circuit and ground. The...
US-6,084,813 Apparatus and method for controlling memory backup using main power supply and backup power supply
In a system using a clock synchronous type synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), when a power supply voltage monitoring circuit informs a timing circuit of a decrease in...
US-6,084,812 Device and method for varying bit line precharge voltage in semiconductor memory
Device and method for varying a bit line precharge voltage in a semiconductor memory, in which the bit line precharge voltage is varied with a chip temperature...
US-6,084,811 Phased sense amplifiers
A sensing arrangement (100) for a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is disclosed. The sensing arrangement (100) includes a sense amplifier bank (104) that is...
US-6,084,810 Dynamic logic circuit with bitline repeater circuit
A dynamic logic circuit is provided. The dynamic logic circuit includes at least one bitline. At least one repeater circuit is inserted into each bitline. The...
US-6,084,809 Main amplifier circuit and input-output bus for a dynamic random access memory
A semiconductor memory is provided with a main amplifier circuit that is capable of selectively driving and precharging two I/O buses in conjunction with a write...
US-6,084,808 Circuits and methods for burn-in of integrated circuits using potential differences between adjacent main word...
External address signals are applied to an integrated circuit in a burn-in test mode. The external address signals control the voltage levels of adjacent main...
US-6,084,807 Memory device with global redundancy
A memory device with global redundancy repair architecture and method of employing same. In the memory device containing blocks of normal memory cells, redundant...
US-6,084,806 Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device (100) includes a normal cell array and a redundant cell array. When a normal cell array location is to be replaced by selecting the...
US-6,084,805 Synchronous memory with programmable read latency
The present invention is directed to a logic circuit for controlling the read latency time of a memory circuit. The logic circuit includes a first circuit for...
US-6,084,804 Memory row driver with parasitic diode pull-down function
An integrated circuit memory array has a plurality of rows of memory cells, each row of memory cells being coupled to a respective row line for enabling the...
US-6,084,803 Initialization of non-volatile programmable latches in circuits in which an initialization operation is performed
A non-volatile programmable latch (110) in an integrated circuit (310) is initialized by an initialization signal (SET). At least a portion of the initialization...
US-6,084,802 Semiconductor integrated circuit device
A pipe-line control of internal circuits is performed by an internal clock whose timing does not depend on a predetermined phase difference to the phase of an...
US-6,084,800 Circuit of boosting a voltage for use in a flash memory device
Disclosed is a circuit of boosting a voltage which comprises a driver circuit for generating a kick signal for driving word lines via row decoder circuits in an...
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