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US-6,198,606 Disc drive actuation system having an injection molded magnetic micro-actuator with metal beam inserts and its...
A method of fabricating a disc drive actuation system having a head level magnetic micro-actuation assembly utilizing flexible beam inserts and the disc drive...
US-6,198,605 Return path geometry to enhance uniformity of force on a linear actuator
Narrow gaps near the end of travel of a linear actuator coil of a magnetic disk drive is disclosed. The gaps are formed between actuator magnets and inner return...
US-6,198,604 Method of and apparatus for unlocking an actuator in a disk storage apparatus
In the present invention, a disk storage apparatus 1 is previously given acceleration current Ia and acceleration time Ta which is supplied to an actuator 6 for...
US-6,198,603 Device for locking and unlocking a disc drive actuator having locking elements separate from unlocking elements
An improved locking system for securing the actuator of a disc drive at a park position. The locking system includes a rotatable lock mechanism that is normally...
US-6,198,602 Split ring attachment of a head gimbal assembly to an actuator
A load beam is mounted in a head stack assembly without staking operations by mounting a mounting plate having an annular boss and carrying the load beam to an...
US-6,198,601 Thin film magnetic head having non-linear tapered rails
A magnetic head element has one or more rails formed on the surface thereof. Each rail is formed so as to have a tapered angle of 55-85.degree.. To form such a...
US-6,198,600 Thin film magnetic head and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention is directed to a thin film magnetic head and its manufacturing method. A slider 1 is provided with base body surfaces 13 and 14 at its...
US-6,198,599 Magnetic head with bonded balls having a capillary mark
A magnetic head includes a metal plate having a conductive pattern, and a slider having a head element and a connecting terminal electrically connected to the...
US-6,198,598 Disc cartridge with slippery film to reduce friction and vent to discharge dust
A disc cartridge includes a shell for storage of a recording medium taken in the form of a disc having a center core formed at the center thereof. The disc has...
US-6,198,597 Thin-film magnetic head having improved magnetic pole structure
A thin-film magnetic head comprises a magnetic gap disposed to be positioned on an air bearing surface of the magnetic head, a pair of magnetic poles disposed to...
US-6,198,596 Cassette mounting device having lock lever spring disposed in cassette holder
A cassette mounting device includes a cassette holder for receiving a cassette, a pair of link mechanisms disposed on lateral opposed sides of the cassette...
US-6,198,595 Logic deck mechanism for portable audio
A portable audio logic deck mechanism includes a main base; a driving source installed on the main base; a power transmitting unit including a pair of capstan...
US-6,198,594 Cartridge forced exit station for a library apparatus
A library apparatus is provided with a cartridge forced exit station for forcibly discharging a defective cartridge for safe removal by an operator. The...
US-6,198,593 High precision cartridge transferring robot for library apparatus
A cartridge transferring robot for use in a library apparatus which is capable of improving the accuracy of the cartridge inserting/extracting angle of a hand...
US-6,198,592 Magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus including a first chassis onto which a tape cassette is received and...
The magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus of this invention records/reproduces information on/from a magnetic tape by drawing out the magnetic tape from a...
US-6,198,591 Multi-task operating system for a disc drive
A multi-task system employs a single interrupt occurring at fixed time intervals to initiate the control functions. The actuator control, servo control and...
US-6,198,590 Disk drive employing method of spinning down its spindle motor to reduce the time required for subsequently...
A disk drive employs a method of operating a spindle motor to respond to a spin-down command to reduce the time required for subsequently responding to a spin-up...
US-6,198,589 Video tape recording apparatus
Magnetic recording apparatus are provided for recording signals on a magnetic tape. A recording head records signals in successive tracks on the tape and a tape...
US-6,198,588 Data Storage
The present invention relates to apparatus for reading and writing data to a storage medium, wherein the data is written to the medium in tracks, each track...
US-6,198,587 Recording information reproducing apparatus for increasing an amplitude of a high frequency component of the...
A recording information reproducing apparatus which can precisely reproduce a digital signal from any one of a plurality of kinds of recording disks of different...
US-6,198,586 Voice recording/playback apparatus for producing a noise level of a voice output unit in a voice recording mode
A voice recording/playback apparatus includes a head unit which records a voice signal in a recording medium and for playing back a recorded voice signal from...
US-6,198,585 Digital signal recording apparatus, and related method
A digital signal recording apparatus includes an amble generator for generating an amble signal representing a bit-sequence amble pattern. The bit-sequence amble...
US-6,198,584 Disk drive with staggered calibration bursts that are disposably located in data regions and method of using...
A disk drive with a disk having a servo pattern including a special "calibration track" wherein a plurality of staggered calibration burst pairs define null...
US-6,198,583 Magnetic recording control system for disk storage drive
In a data recording system used for a magnetic disk drive, a write amplifier feeds a write head with a recording current that corresponds to the data to be...
US-6,198,582 Efficient run length limited code with short interleaved constraint
An encoder and a method of encoding successive data words into successive code words for transmission through a channel is provided. The encoder divides each...
US-6,198,581 Finder prism
It is an object of the present invention to provide a finder prism capable of forming some in-finder information such as an automatic focus target mark and a...
US-6,198,580 Gimballed optical mount
An optical mount for an optical element which has an optical surface. The mount includes a first plate and a second plate which holds the optical element. The...
US-6,198,579 Process for the correction of non-rotationally-symmetrical image errors
In a process for the correction of non-rotationally-symmetrical image errors in an assembly, e.g., an objective with optical elements, particularly lenses,...
US-6,198,578 Cam follower and lens barrel
In a lens barrel of the present invention, a M-cam frame is engaged with a rotary frame and movable frame so that the M-cam frame can rotate and advance or...
US-6,198,577 Doubly telecentric lens and imaging system for multiwell plates
A multiple element color-corrected doubly telecentric lens and imaging system useful for imaging multiwell plates is described. The lens contains a biconvex...
US-6,198,576 Projection optical system and exposure apparatus
Projection optical systems are provided for use in an exposure apparatus that have a numerical aperture greater than 0.63, a reduced field curvature of pupil at...
US-6,198,575 Optical system for observing device having image-vibration compensation system
An optical system for a binocular is provided with an objective optical system, an erecting system and an observing optical system. The objective optical system...
US-6,198,574 Polarization preserving optical systems
Polarization preserving optical systems for use in deviating plane polarized beams through preselected angles without changing their linear state of...
US-6,198,573 Computer supported video microscope
The invention relates to a compact microscope 4 especially for medical routine applications. The microscope is configured as a closed housing 8 wherein the...
US-6,198,572 Controller which controls a variable optical attenuator to control the power level of a wavelength-multiplexed...
An optical amplifying apparatus which includes an optical amplifier, an optical attenuator and a controller. The optical amplifier amplifies a light signal...
US-6,198,571 Computerized intelligent optical amplifier for multi-channel optical networks
An optical amplifier having a substantially flat response over a multi-channel bandwidth for signals which have different input levels. It utilizes input and...
US-6,198,570 Optical filter, manufacturing method thereof, and optical amplifier equipped with said optical filter
A method of manufacturing an optical filter that can restrain the wavelength dependence of the gain of an optical amplifier. The input signal light power, output...
US-6,198,569 Multiple window dense wavelength divison multiplexed communications link with optical amplification and...
Fiber optic communication links are disclosed, employing non-invasive fiber optic amplification technology. An amplifier stage is provided having a plurality of...
US-6,198,568 Use of Chirped Quasi-phase-matched materials in chirped pulse amplification systems
The limitations on maximum pulse energies from a fiber-grating pulse compressor are circumvented by placing a chirped-period quasi-phase-matched (QPM) crystal...
US-6,198,567 Faraday rotation variable attenuator
A variable optical attenuator comprises a Faraday rotator including a ferromagnetic garnet film disposed input/output single mode optical signal paths. A...
US-6,198,566 Optical switching device, picture display and projection apparatus
A picture display device in accordance with the present invention is provided with a light guiding member equipped with a total reflection surface capable of...
US-6,198,565 Light deflection element and display apparatus using same
A light deflection element has a pair of oscillating elements (6) and (7) having arms (6a) and (6b), and (7a) and (7b). respectively, the outer ends of which are...
US-6,198,564 Optical scanning system
A system using a scanning mirror for scanning the field of view of an optical objective. The scanning mirror is mounted for rotation about an axis transverse to...
US-6,198,563 Optical scanning apparatus with improved design flexibility
An optical scanning apparatus includes a light source unit for emitting a light beam, an image-forming lens for imaging the light beam in a main-scanning...
US-6,198,562 Multi-beam scanning device and image forming system and method using the same
A multi-beam scanning device includes a plurality of light sources which emit multiple beams. A plurality of coupling lenses couple the multiple beams from the...
US-6,198,561 Light beam deflection apparatus
There is described a light beam deflection apparatus in which the distortion of the polygon mirror is reduced, and the mounting accuracy of the polygon mirror is...
US-6,198,560 Operation of optical modulators
A method of, and an apparatus for, operating an optical modulator employ an optical attenuation versus voltage response which is cyclic and which includes an...
US-6,198,559 Automatic delay compensation for generating NRZ signals from RZ signals in communications networks
The present invention is a method of automatic delay compensation for use in data transmission, particularly in optical communication systems. The invention...
US-6,198,558 Architecture repartitioning to simplify outside-plant component of fiber-based access system
An improved access system for use in a Fiber-In-The-Loop (FITL) communications network is disclosed. The access system comprises a host digital terminal (HDT)...
US-6,198,557 Telecommunication system having frequency-dividing optical components for the parallel processing of optical pulses
A telecommunication system having frequency-dividing optical components where light pulses having different frequencies are coupled out of a optical fiber by...
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