Patents by Inventor Vlad Novotny

Vlad Novotny 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).

  • Optical storage devices without mass transfer and spots
    Patent number: 6483801
    Abstract: Techniques and medium structures for reducing signal distortions due to mass transfer from the medium surface to the optical head in optical storage devices in both far-field and near-field configurations. In one embodiment, a transparent capping layer is formed on a storage medium to have a sufficient thickness so that a beam spot size of an optical beam on the medium surface is sufficiently large to make a power density of the beam less than a threshold power density for mass transfer from the medium to the optical head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2002
    Assignee: Terastor Corporation
    Inventors: Vlad Novotny, Roger A. Hajjar
  • Mechanism for controlling spacing between optical head and storage medium in optical storage systems
    Patent number: 6396783
    Abstract: An optical disk drive having a thermal control mechanism on the optical head to control the spacing between the optical head and the surface of the storage medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: Terastor Corporation
    Inventors: Bernard W. Bell, Jr., Vlad Novotny, Hossein Moghadam, Roger Hajjar, Yung-Chieh Hsieh, 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
  • Optical storage system with head cleaning mechanism based on a position-controllable optical interfacing surface in an optical head
    Patent number: 6307832
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Terastor Corporation
    Inventors: Vlad Novotny, Roger Hajjar
  • Head including a heating element for reducing signal distortion in data storage systems
    Patent number: 6069853
    Abstract: A device for retrieving data from or writing data to a storage medium that includes a heating element to reduce signal distortion in a data storage system. The device includes a head having an interfacing surface that faces a medium surface of the storage medium and interacts with the storage medium. The heating element is disposed on or near the interfacing surface to supply thermal energy to the interfacing surface maintain said interfacing surface at a temperature higher than a temperature of the medium surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: TeraStor Corporation
    Inventors: Vlad Novotny, David Diepersloot, Roger Hajjar, Bernard W. Bell, Jr.