Patents by Inventor Noriyuki Katou

Noriyuki Katou has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6181652
    Abstract: A CD-ROM drive is disclosed which is for use with disks having various degrees of spindle hole eccentricity and data track eccentricity. The hole eccentricity of each disk manifests itself during disk rotation as periodic vibration of the disk and, in consequence, periodic departures of the light beam spot from the track to an extent proportional to the speed of disk rotation, whereas the track eccentricity manifests itself during disk rotation as periodic departures of the beam spot from the track to a constant extent regardless of the speed of disk rotation. Therefore, on being loaded into the disk drive, each disk has its hole eccentricity and track eccentricity measured at two different disk eccentricity check speeds in terms of, for example, the amplitude of an eccentricity-caused periodic component of a tracking error signal. The hole eccentricity of the disk is ascertainable by subtracting the eccentricity measurement at the lower check speed from that at the higher check speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: TEAC Corporation
    Inventors: Noriyuki Katou, Junichi Kanenaga, Shigeru Fukinuki