Patents Assigned to TermStar Corporation
  • Contact optical head for data storage
    Patent number: 7102992
    Abstract: Techniques and devices based on contact optical heads in optical storage devices and systems. In one implementation, a load actuator is provided in an optical storage device and is operable to apply a force to cause the optical head to contact the optical disk at a contact location of an optical interfacing surface when reading or writing data and the optical interfacing surface is a curved surface with a protruded apex at or near which the load actuator causes the optical head to contact the optical disk during reading or writing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: TermStar Corporation
    Inventor: Warren Dalziel