Patents Assigned to Terastor Corporation, a California Corporation
  • Disk cartridge for optical disk drives
    Publication number: 20040202055
    Abstract: This application describes structures of storage media for optical storage systems, including systems in the near-field configuration to couple radiation between the optical head and the media at least in part by evanescent fields. Disk cartridges for various optical disk drives are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: Terastor Corporation, a California Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon R. Knight, John Al-Samrrie, David Blankenbeckler, Brian Bonn, Alan Burroughs, Warren Dalziel, Roger Hajjar, Amit Jain, Guolin Ma, Brian Tremaine
  • Optical storage system with controllable head cleaning mechanism
    Publication number: 20020015373
    Abstract: An optical disk drive having a cleaning mechanism to clean the optical head by contact with a selected surface or in close proximity of a surface of the storage medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Applicant: TERASTOR CORPORATION, California corporation
    Inventors: Vlad Novotny, Roger Hajjar