| Patent # | Description |
|---|---|
| US-7,372,664 |
Techniques to reduce adjacent track erasure including a write pole with a
tip having faces at angles Techniques for reducing adjacent track erasure include: a bucking coil having a lower number of turns than the write coil for bucking out a portion of the field... |
| US-7,372,663 |
Lubricated limiter for fluid dynamic bearing motor In one example, a FDB motor having a top-cover attached, EM biased bearing system is provided. The motor includes a shaft and rotor disposed for relative... |
| US-7,372,662 |
Base deck with formed-in-place gaskets and impact dissipation members for
a data storage device A base deck is provided and includes a base plate having a plurality of parallel surfaces and a plurality of gasket retention grooves formed. A first gasket... |
| US-7,372,661 |
Tape guide system for engaging different tape widths A tape guide system for supporting magnetic tape about a rotary scan drum of a data transfer apparatus is disclosed. The tape guide system comprises a tape guide... |
| US-7,372,660 |
Disc storage system with adaptive PID control A disc drive controller circuit for an actuator receives reference data indicating a desired actuator position ".theta..sub.d", error data indicating a... |
| US-7,372,659 |
Head position control method, head position control device and disk device In a head position control device having a disturbance suppression function and eccentricity correction function, the interference between the eccentricity... |
| US-7,372,658 |
Correction table creation method for head position control, head position
control method and disk device A head position control system controls the position of the head by correcting the components synchronizing rotation of the disk from the head control amount, in... |
| US-7,372,657 |
Mechanism for minimizing unload times in a tape drive system In one embodiment, a method and apparatus for minimizing unload times in a tape drive system is disclosed. The method includes: writing to a tape in serpentine... |
| US-7,372,656 |
disk drive with side erase control Embodiments of the invention provide a disk drive that is capable of effectively controlling a side erase, which is one of the problems with the use of the... |
| US-7,372,655 |
Information-processing apparatus, information-processing method, programs
and recording mediums Attributes of data recorded on a magnetic tape are stored in an attribute information table saved in an MIC (Memory in Cassette) of a tape cassette accommodated... |
| US-7,372,654 |
Noise reduction system, disk storage unit, hard disk drive and noise
reduction method An active noise canceller outputs a noise pattern learning request signal to a hard disk drive causing the hard disk drive to perform a predetermined operation,... |
| US-7,372,653 |
Degauss waveform generator for perpendicular recording write head Embodiments of the invention provide a hard disk drive that is capable of performing degaussing promptly and properly and a recording method for use with such a... |
| US-7,372,652 |
Correcting errors in disk drive read back signals by iterating with the
Reed-Solomon decoder A read channel includes a signal receiver that receives a read back signal and a signal detector to detect symbols in the read back signal. The signal detector... |
| US-7,372,651 |
Introducing a noise signal into a read-back signal when data is written to
a removable data storage medium In one exemplary embodiment, a noise signal is introduced into a read-back signal when data is written to a removable data storage medium. While writing the data... |
| US-7,372,650 |
Rotating media storage device having a calibration track with unique
calibration servo synch marks Disclosed is a rotating media storage device (RMSD) that has at least one calibration track with unique calibration servo synch marks (SSM.sub.cs). The RMSD... |
| US-7,372,649 |
Apparatus and method for applying write signals for driving a write head An apparatus for use in applying write signals for driving a write head to effect writing information to a memory device; the write signals including a first... |
| US-7,372,648 |
Optically-assisted magnetic recording head and optically-assisted magnetic
recording apparatus A pair of members opposed to each other via a gap are commonly used as an evanescent light probe and a writing magnetic head. When the spacing and width of the... |
| US-7,372,647 |
Lens mount assembly for optical components A lens mount assembly for securing a lens in a predetermined position within an optical device is disclosed. The lens mount assembly is configured so as to... |
| US-7,372,646 |
Adjustable focus lens system An adjustable focus lens system with at least two lens units and a mechanism to adjust the position of at least one of the two lens units relative to the other... |
| US-7,372,645 |
Observation device An observation device includes a housing and an optical lens having a field of view. The housing includes an outer dome having at least one transparent portion... |
| US-7,372,644 |
Imaging lens An imaging lens including, in order from an object side towards an image surface side, a diaphragm, a first lens which is a meniscus lens having a positive power... |
| US-7,372,643 |
Image-forming lens set An image-forming lens set includes an aperture stop, a first lens with positive power, a second lens with negative power and a third lens, which are arranged... |
| US-7,372,642 |
Three-channel camera systems with non-collinear apertures A three-dimensional imaging system uses a single primary optical lens along with three non-collinear apertures to obtain three offset optical channels each of... |
| US-7,372,641 |
Contrast reinforcement for displays The invention relates to a method and a device for contrast enhancement for display devices. A high-contrast representation of optical signals and/or symbols is... |
| US-7,372,640 |
Enhanced color contrast lens A color contrast enhancing lens made from adhering two different lenses and a membrane together. It includes a color enhancing lens whose specific component will... |
| US-7,372,639 |
Subminiature optical system A subminiature imaging optical system with two lenses is provided. The optical system includes an aperture stop. A first meniscus lens has a positive refractive... |
| US-7,372,638 |
Lens barrel There is disclosed a lens barrel including a fixed frame, a rotary frame rotatable with respect to the fixed frame to advance or retract in an optical axis... |
| US-7,372,637 |
Focusing unit and optical device A focusing mechanism allowing a user to adjust the focus from infinity to a close distance rapidly and precisely, and an optical device utilizing such a focusing... |
| US-7,372,636 |
Zoom lens and image-taking device A zoom lens including subsequently from an object side of the zoom lens to an image side of the zoom lens: a first lens group with a positive focal length; a... |
| US-7,372,635 |
Optical path bending type zoom lens system and image taking apparatus
including the same A zoom lens system comprises, in order from an object side, a positive first lens unit including a reflective optical element, a negative second lens unit, a... |
| US-7,372,634 |
Reticle-masking objective with aspherical lenses A reticle-masking (REMA) objective for imaging an object plane onto an image plane has a condenser portion, an intermediate portion, and a field lens portion.... |
| US-7,372,633 |
Lithographic apparatus, aberration correction device and device
manufacturing method An aberration correction device useable in lithography comprises two elements, at least one of which is relatively rotatable to the other about, for example, an... |
| US-7,372,632 |
Apparatus and methods for the inspection of microvias in printed circuit
boards An imaging method and imaging system for inspecting features located at a known inter-feature pitch on portions of a target surface. The system includes a lens... |
| US-7,372,631 |
Method of manufacturing microlens, microlens, microlens array,
electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus A method of manufacturing a microlens includes: forming on a transparent substrate an etching stop layer in a lens formation region where a curved lens surface... |
| US-7,372,630 |
Laser, irradiation apparatus, laser irradiation method, and method for
manufacturing semiconductor device Providing a method and apparatus for efficiently irradiating a uniform laser light on an irradiation surface even when a laser light of high coherence or a large... |
| US-7,372,629 |
Three-dimensional image display device, portable terminal device, display
panel and fly eye lens In a three-dimensional image display device for displaying color three-dimensional images, a fly eye lens, a display panel, and a light source are provided in... |
| US-7,372,628 |
Display screen A display screen for a projection device is disclosed, wherein the display screen includes a substantially rigid translucent backing structure, and a viewing... |
| US-7,372,627 |
Holder for field glasses A holder for field glasses has a pair of substantially similar resilient receptacles that each has a main body with an open bottom and a narrower neck with an... |
| US-7,372,626 |
Device for sequential observation of samples and methods using same The invention concerns methods and devices for observing or analysing samples on a support. More particularly, it concerns a device for sequential observation of... |
| US-7,372,625 |
Device for retaining optical components A device for retaining optical components includes a number of open orifices disposed next to one another in an arrangement. A raceway corresponding to the... |
| US-7,372,624 |
8-mirror microlithography projection objective A projection objective provides a light path for a light bundle from an object field in an object plane to an image field in an image plane. The projection... |
| US-7,372,623 |
Multi-layer spectral purity filter, lithographic apparatus including such
a spectral purity filter, device... A multi-layered spectral purity filter improves the spectral purity of extreme ultra-violet (EUV) radiation and also collects debris emitted from a radiation... |
| US-7,372,622 |
Optical transmission system, optical repeater, and optical transmission
method In a WDM transmission system employing a plurality of short wavelength bands having great attenuation due to optical fiber transmission, an optical repeater is... |
| US-7,372,621 |
Wavelength converting devices A wavelength converting device 1 has a ferroelectric layer 6 made of a ferroelectric material. The ferroelectric layer has a wavelength converting portion A... |
| US-7,372,620 |
Micromirror and micromirror device There is provided a micromirror which includes a holding unit, a mirror that is held by the holding unit to be pivotable about a rotation axis of the mirror, a... |
| US-7,372,619 |
Display device having a movable structure for modulating light and method
thereof An interference modulator (Imod) incorporates anti-reflection coatings and/or micro-fabricated supplemental lighting sources. An efficient drive scheme is... |
| US-7,372,618 |
Method of manufacturing micromirror array and method of manufacturing
optical device having micromirror A method of manufacturing a micromirror array and a method of manufacturing an optical device having a micromirror. The method of manufacturing a micromirror... |
| US-7,372,617 |
Hidden hinge MEMS device The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a MEMS device, including the actions of: providing a substrate having a back and front surface... |
| US-7,372,616 |
Complex microdevices and apparatus and methods for fabricating such
devices Various embodiments of the invention are directed to various microdevices including sensors, actuators, valves, scanning mirrors, accelerometers, switches, and... |
| US-7,372,615 |
Method of operating a micromechanical device that contains anti-stiction
gas-phase lubricant One embodiment of an micromechanical device includes a first contact surface, a moveable component having a second contact surface, where the second contact... |