| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-6,473,302 |
Communications device holder for vehicles To facilitate hands-free operation, a communications device holder (110, 300, 400) includes a tongue (202) that is adapted to mate with and be latched within a... |
| US-6,473,301 |
Disk drive test rack with universal electrical connector A disk drive test device for performing a test (e.g., power only self test, tests which use a serial interface) on at least one disk drive at a time. The test... |
| US-6,473,300 |
Light conduit for a storage device carrier assembly A carrier assembly for a storage device includes a body portion for mounting to the storage device, a side extension of the body portion extending laterally... |
| US-6,473,299 |
Anti-vibration disk drive cage A disk system includes a disk cage having a spring and an interior wall that forms a disk drive chamber. The disk system also includes a disk drive removably... |
| US-6,473,298 |
Peripheral device storage system An apparatus is disclosed for storing electronic devices. The apparatus includes an enclosure, a carrier adapted to contain a peripheral device, and a rotatable... |
| US-6,473,297 |
Memory storage device docking adapted having a laterally mounted fan A docking adapter capable of cooling a memory storage device such as a hard disk drive includes a carrier and a rack. The carrier has a face with a vent, a... |
| US-6,473,296 |
Information processing device An information processing device has a pair of projections joined to a display unit and angularly movable about an axis which is disposed in a position... |
| US-6,473,295 |
Computer enclosure A computer enclosure includes a chassis (20), a rear panel (50), a loading board (80), first and second drive brackets (110, 150), a power supply bracket (130)... |
| US-6,473,294 |
System for distributing energy and data in energy distributing facilities A large number of switching devices, for example contactors, can be supplied with power and information in particular in switchgear cabinets. A multilayer supply... |
| US-6,473,293 |
Capacitor unit, method for producing the same, and solid electrolytic
capacitor A capacitor unit of the present invention is configured so that a dielectric layer is provided on a roughened surface of a valve metal foil for an anode, and... |
| US-6,473,292 |
Monolithic ceramic electronic component Both of the longitudinal dimension L and the widthwise dimension W of a capacitor body are at least four times the thickness-wise dimension T, respectively.... |
| US-6,473,291 |
Low inductance four terminal capacitor lead frame A chip capacitor is conductively coupled to spaced-apart (i.e., non-conductively coupled) circuit traces of an integrated circuit to provide a four terminal... |
| US-6,473,290 |
Capacitance-type external-force detecting device with improved sensitivity A capacitance-type external-force detecting device includes a substrate, a moveable unit which is supported by the substrate via a supporting beam and which can... |
| US-6,473,289 |
Vacuum variable capacitor An improved vacuum variable capacitor can include one or more characteristics that provide advantages over previous vacuum variable capacitors. In particular,... |
| US-6,473,288 |
Adhesive sheet and electrostatic chucking device The present invention provide an adhesive sheet for electrostatic chucking device having high heat resistance and to an electrostatic chucking device which... |
| US-6,473,287 |
Apparatus and method for stunning animals for slaughter The invention relates to an apparatus for stunning animals, such as pigs, for slaughter and may include a conveyor for conveying stunned animals for slaughter,... |
| US-6,473,286 |
Electromagnetic device driving apparatus A driving apparatus for an electromagnetic valve comprises a conduction control circuit and a current-limit-value setting circuit. The conduction control circuit... |
| US-6,473,285 |
Surge-gap end plug A surge-gap device (300) includes two electrodes (310, 315), having an inside portion and an outside portion, and an insulator material (320), which secures the... |
| US-6,473,284 |
Low-power dc-to-dc converter having high overvoltage protection A dc-to-dc converter is provided with overvoltage protection circuitry while still providing normal output voltage. Such overvoltage protection circuitry does... |
| US-6,473,283 |
Voltage protection circuit for multi-drop bus of an automated coin vending
machine A voltage protective circuit for an electronic device comprises a metal oxide varistor for eliminating spikes above a first level, and a Zener diode and a... |
| US-6,473,282 |
Latch-up protection circuit for integrated circuits biased with multiple
power supplies and its method A latch-up protection circuit for an integrated circuit powered through a first power rail and a second power rail is disclosed, the integrated circuit having at... |
| US-6,473,281 |
Automatic protection device with ground fault annunciation A trip unit, such as one comprising a current sensor generating a current signal indicative of current in a power circuit, an analog to digital converter... |
| US-6,473,280 |
Switching voltage regulator failure detection circuit and method A failure detection scheme for switching voltage regulators senses a parameter which normally transitions above and below a predetermined threshold during each... |
| US-6,473,279 |
In-stack single-domain stabilization of free layers for CIP and CPP
spin-valve or tunnel-valve read heads An improved MR sensor has a ferromagnetic free layer whose magnetization is stabilized by an in-stack three layers combination, which including an auxiliary... |
| US-6,473,278 |
Giant magnetoresistive sensor with a high resistivity free layer A spin valve (SV) magnetoresistive sensor is provided having an AP-pinned layer, a laminated ferromagnetic free layer and a non-magnetic electrically conductive... |
| US-6,473,277 |
Read head with leads to shields shorts for permitting a thinner second read
gap layer and improving read signal... A read head has first and second leads that are shorted to first and second shields so that the first and second shields function as lead layer extensions for... |
| US-6,473,276 |
Merged magnetic head which includes a write head with single-sided notched
first pole piece A single-sided, notched write head is provided for writing narrow erase band servo tracks as well as a double-notched write head, and for writing data tracks... |
| US-6,473,275 |
Dual hybrid magnetic tunnel junction/giant magnetoresistive sensor A dual hybrid magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ)/giant magnetoresistance (GMR) sensor is provided having an MTJ stack, a GMR stack and a common free layer. The MTJ... |
| US-6,473,274 |
Symmetrical microactuator structure for use in mass data storage devices,
or the like A microactuator includes a base, first microactuator elements carried by the base, a platform attached to the base, second microactuator elements carried by the... |
| US-6,473,273 |
Rotary head assembly A rotary head assembly including a plurality of magnetic heads with predetermined azimuth angles. These magnetic heads are formed by mounting MR elements of MR... |
| US-6,473,272 |
Dynammically symmetric actuator A dynamically symmetric actuator is disclosed for reducing off-track motion. The dynamically symmetric actuator of the present invention limits torsional or... |
| US-6,473,271 |
Aerodynamically streamlined actuator arm for disc drives A disc drive actuator arm is an extended arm having forward edge to engage fluid flow due to rotation of the disc, a rear edge, and a top surface and a bottom... |
| US-6,473,270 |
Actuator shock snubber An apparatus and method for reducing deflection of an actuator assembly within a head disc assembly in a disc drive during a mechanical shock event. A snubber is... |
| US-6,473,269 |
Piezoelectric disk latch A latch for locking a drive arm of a disk drive in a parking position comprising: a latch stop having a baffle moveable between an open position and a closed... |
| US-6,473,268 |
Recording disk drive A suspension is cantilevered at the tip end of a carriage arm. A magnetic head is mounted on the free end of the suspension. A lift bar in parallel with the disk... |
| US-6,473,267 |
Floppy disk drive unit with mounting plate between carriage and lower
magnetic head The height of the lower head is equal to that of the upper heads. A mounting plate is provided between the lower head and a carriage to provide penetration... |
| US-6,473,266 |
Magnetic recording diskette having reduced-area fabric liner The invention presents a magnetic recording disc cartridge with two small fabric liners affixed inside the media compartment. One liner covers the lifter and the... |
| US-6,473,265 |
High frequency writer with sliced core topology A magnetic recording head has an air bearing surface and a magnetic core having a height and a width. The magnetic core is formed in part of a plurality of... |
| US-6,473,264 |
Filtering apparatus for hard disk drive A hard disk drive filtering apparatus for filtering particles from flowing air generated while a hard disk installed within a housing rotates, the apparatus... |
| US-6,473,263 |
Cover structure of hard disk drive with air damping layer A cover structure of a hard disk drive (HDD) can optimally suppress noises and vibrations generated in the HDD. The hard disk drive includes a cover, a cover... |
| US-6,473,262 |
Techniques for compensating for high initial unloading force requirement in
tape cartridge-loading mechanism In an automatic tape cartridge loader, separating the tape from the drive motor during unloading often imposes a high torque requirement on the loader motor, for... |
| US-6,473,261 |
Cartridge overinsertion protection for cartridge library Cartridges (64) are loaded into or retrieved from an automated media library (20) either singly through an entry/exit port module (54), or by opening a library... |
| US-6,473,260 |
Optical information recording/reproducing apparatus and method for using
both disc cartridges holding 8cm and... An optical recording/reproducing apparatus capable of using disc cartridges of at least two different sizes and/or a naked disc, on only one tray. The optical... |
| US-6,473,259 |
Disk head height control A disk head fly height adjustment method includes positioning a disk head over a surface of a rotating data storage disk and dynamically altering a load point of... |
| US-6,473,258 |
Magnetic disk read/write circuit having core coils of opposite phase A magnetic disk read/write circuit comprises a core having a pair of coils wound such that signals supplied to the coils becomes opposite in phase and a read... |
| US-6,473,257 |
Method and apparatus for measuring characteristics of ferromagnetic tunnel
magnetoresistance effect element,... The present invention relates to a method for measuring characteristics of a tunnel magnetoresistance effect element having a tunnel multilayered film comprising... |
| US-6,473,256 |
Method and apparatus for a 200 NS write to read switch time circuit The present invention includes a circuit which can achieve a 200 nano second write to read time. The present invention eliminates a switch in the RMR measurement... |
| US-6,473,255 |
Information storage device having transducers operating in a pulse mode in
synchronism with a timing clock Sense current is applied in pulses, synchronized with the timing clock generated by a clock generator 5, to transducer 2 in the information storage device,... |
| US-6,473,254 |
Method and system for compensation of nonlinearity or fluctuation of
head-position signal A plurality of patterns are formed so that each is deviated slightly from another in each sector in the track width direction. Then, the pattern is followed up,... |
| US-6,473,253 |
Read channel with programmable bandwidth control A feedback system includes an emitter-follower as a gain stage in the forward path. The emitter-follower has a very wide band width and does not, by itself,... |