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US-6,798,627 Engine generator set systems and methods providing load power fault protection
An engine-generator set includes a load power fault protector circuit that detects when the power delivered to the load reaches a predetermined maximum power...
US-6,798,626 Magnetoresistive effect element having a ferromagnetic tunnel junction film with an oxide or nitride of a...
A magnetoresistive effect element which is easy to manufacture and in which a sense current is prevented from bypassing a barrier layer is provided. Also...
US-6,798,625 Spin-valve magnetoresistance sensor and thin-film magnetic head
The present invention provides a spin-valve magnetoresistance sensor in which are formed, on top of the substrate, free layers, and pinned layers, enclosing a...
US-6,798,624 Magnetization sensor for sensing the write field characteristics of a perpendicular or longitudinal recording head
A magnetization sensor for sensing write field characteristic of a perpendicular or longitudinal recording head such as may be used with a disc drive, and a...
US-6,798,623 Biased CPP sensor using spin-momentum transfer
Disclosed is a magnetoresistive magnetic field sensor wherein the sense current flows perpendicular to the plane of the layers of the sensor. The sensor is...
US-6,798,622 Magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element with sunken lead structure
A method for forming a magnetoresistive (MR) sensor element. There is first provided a substrate. There is then formed over the substrate a seed layer. There is...
US-6,798,621 Shield electrical connections for tunnel valve sensors
A magnetic head includes a tunnel valve sensor, a first shield coupled to a first end of the tunnel valve sensor, and a second shield coupled to a second end of...
US-6,798,620 Magneto-resistive element, magnetic head, and magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus
A magnetic head including a magnetic substrate for operating as a first electrode, a multi-layer film formed on a portion of the surface of the magnetic...
US-6,798,618 Head suspension for disk drive
A head suspension for a disk drive has support plate means (3, 7) serving as a carriage arm and a load beam (5). The load beam consists of a rigid part (13) and...
US-6,798,617 Cleaning tape for magnetic head system with magnetoresistance effect head
A cleaning tape for a magnetic head system having a magnetoresistance effect head as a reproducing head, comprising a nonmagnetic support, and a cleaning layer...
US-6,798,616 Write head architecture for improved manufacturability
A disk drive write head having in consecutive layers a bottom pole, a write gap layer, a first insulation layer, a coil, a second insulation layer having an...
US-6,798,615 Perpendicular recording head with return poles which reduce flux antenna effect
A perpendicular magnetic recording head includes a main write pole and multiple return poles. The size of each return pole is controlled in order to provide...
US-6,798,614 Releasable disc clamping assembly
A disc positioning system for releasably securing a disc stack array on a spindle hub in a multi-disc writer system. The system includes a disc clamp with an...
US-6,798,613 Method of correcting Z-height errors during assembly of a hard disk drive
A disk drive includes a drive housing, an actuator arm mounted to the drive housing, a head suspension assembly secured to the actuator arm, a spindle secured to...
US-6,798,612 Power strip distribution system and method for an automated robotic device in a data storage system
A system and method for distributing electrical power to an automated robotic device for transporting media cartridges in a data storage library. The system and...
US-6,798,611 Disk storage system employing a discrete-time sliding mode controller for servo control
A discrete-time sliding mode controller (SMC) controls the motion of a read head actuated over a disk storage medium during tracking operations. The discret-time...
US-6,798,610 Disk drive with self servo writing capability
The present invention is directed to utilizing the capabilities of multi-stage actuators in disk drives to do self servo writing on the disk surfaces, thereby...
US-6,798,609 Magnetic microactuator with capacitive position sensor
A disc drive system includes a recording disc rotatable about an axis, a slider supporting a transducing head for transducing data with the disc, and a...
US-6,798,608 Active detection and acquisition of a servo track subject to lateral motion
Initially, from an off-track position at a known side of, and displaced from, a servo track pattern of a tape subject to lateral movement, servo loop logic slews...
US-6,798,607 Defined signal injection to calibrate servo index positions employing an independent position sensor
Calibration of magnetic tape servo index positions, which are laterally offset from edges and measured by ratios of dissimilar servo signals. A defined signal is...
US-6,798,606 Position error signal linearization calibration
Non-linearity in a position error signal (PES) for a data storage device is precisely characterized during a calibration phase in the manufacturing process. From...
US-6,798,605 Magnetic disk apparatus and method of controlling the same
A magnetic disk apparatus includes a rotation mechanism for driving a magnetic disk, a magnetic head slider being floated in close proximity to a surface of the...
US-6,798,604 Controller circuit connectable to an actuator designed to position a head in a recording medium drive according...
The controller circuit is designed to generate the positioning control signal based on the positional deviation of the head from a target recording track on a...
US-6,798,603 Disk drive unlatching an actuator arm at a first spindle speed during a first spin-up mode and a second spindle...
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, a spindle motor for rotating the disk, an actuator arm, and a head coupled to the actuator arm. While powered down...
US-6,798,602 Window based directory for magnetic tape
Directories are provided for data recorded on a magnetic tape in the form of files having data demarcation signals, such as filemarks. Data storage logic...
US-6,798,601 Impact detecting circuit, impact detecting apparatus, and recording and reproducing apparatus including same
First and second integrating circuits are connected to both terminals of an impact sensor, and a difference between integration outputs of the integrating...
US-6,798,600 Recording medium reproducing apparatus with retractable lid covering medium insertion port
A recording medium reproducing apparatus includes a mechanical deck, a lid body, a first moving member, a second moving member, and a synchronization member. The...
US-6,798,599 Disc storage system employing non-volatile magnetoresistive random access memory
An apparatus and method for caching data in a disc storage system are provided. The disc storage system includes a host computer interface adapted to couple to a...
US-6,798,598 Method for controlling write current to a write head during data write on a hard disk
A method for controlling write current to a write head during data write on a hard disk drive is disclosed. A direct access storage device includes a rotating...
US-6,798,597 Write channel having preamplifier and non-uniform transmission line
A high speed data transmission channel, preferably embodied in a circuit for writing to a read channel for a hard disk drive, is provided. The channel includes a...
US-6,798,596 Method and apparatus for determining data field fill-in frequency at servo pack writing
A guardband portion is written on a disc surface in a disc drive. A predetermined data pattern is written on at least one data track adjacent to the guardband...
US-6,798,595 Magnetic recording playback device
In a magnetic recording playback device, since minimum redundant bytes required for satisfying a target error rate are added, the addition of more redundant...
US-6,798,594 Position sensing system for a disc drive using micro-servo sectors and side-by-side R/W recording elements
A transducer position sensing system in a disc drive to take frequent data measurements from micro-servo sectors on the disc and to interpret the information to...
US-6,798,593 Method and apparatus for reproducing data and method and apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data
A magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus which achieves high performance encoding and high efficiency decoding to lower the decoding error rate. A...
US-6,798,592 Method for reducing position error signal in a disk drive
A method and an apparatus for reducing position error signal in a disk drive, which has an actuator and a magnetic medium, write the servo tracks with a servo...
US-6,798,591 Reference circuit for write driver circuit with programmable write current, overshoot duration and overshoot...
A write current circuit (40) adapted to drive a thin film write head (L0) of a mass media information storage device. The write current circuit includes a write...
US-6,798,590 Method for contact magnetic transfer of servo pattern to hard magnetic recording disk
A contact magnetic transfer method for forming a pattern of magnetized servo regions in the magnetic recording layer of a rigid magnetic recording disk uses a...
US-6,798,589 Optical member with handling portion and method for manufacturing optical member and method for mounting...
A lens element 1 is formed by making use of an optical substrate, and includes a lens portion 2, an edge portion 6 in the form of a circular arc provided along...
US-6,798,588 Method for applying a scale to a carrier
In a method for applying a scale (7) to a carrier (1,2), a material layer (11) is applied to the carrier in such a way that the change in length on account of...
US-6,798,587 Thermal imaging combination and method
A thermal imaging instrument and method is disclosed for viewing hot spots within a normally enclosed cabinet, for example, a high voltage electrical power...
US-6,798,586 Corrector optic compensating spherical and coma aberrations generated by a prism
A corrector optic is provided, for use in a camera system that includes a thick prism in front of the focal plane. The corrector optic includes preferably two...
US-6,798,585 Reference lens for interferometer and interferometer that uses it
A reference lens for an interferometer is constructed so that light transmitted by a partially reflecting reference spherical surface may be converged, toward a...
US-6,798,584 Lens apparatus for projection
A lens apparatus for projection includes a plurality of lenses on an optical axis. A shading plate 11 for covering the peripheral portion of the lens to block...
US-6,798,583 Projection optical apparatus
The invention provides a small-sized projection optical apparatus which uses a decentered prism as a projection optical system and in which some contrivances are...
US-6,798,582 Reduction gear mechanism
A reduction gear mechanism includes at least first and second axes which extend parallel to each other; one of the first and second axes rotatably supports at...
US-6,798,581 Optical pickup method and apparatus for performing read and write operations on recording media
An optical pickup apparatus, in which the quantity of light incident to an aperture diaphragm of an objective lens and the "rim intensity (RI)" are maintained...
US-6,798,580 Projection type image display apparatus
A projection type image display apparatus includes a light axis moving unit for moving a direction of a light from a light source substantially in parallel...
US-6,798,579 Real imaging system with reduced ghost imaging
A real image display system includes a primary image source for projecting a primary image from the start of a primary light path to an end of the primary light...
US-6,798,578 Integrated display image intensifier assembly
A system (S) for combining multi-spectral images of a scene includes a first detector (18) for transmitting a scene image in a first spectral band. A separate,...
US-6,798,577 Illumination apparatus with light shielding near an exit plane of an optical pipe and projection exposure...
An illumination apparatus includes an inner-surface reflecting type integrator, an optical system for directing a beam from a light source to a portion of...
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