Abstract: An apparatus comprises a write pole, a return pole, a wire positioned between the write pole and the return pole, a first free layer, and a first interlayer positioned between the write pole and the first free layer.

Abstract: A magnetic recording head comprises a write pole having a tip adjacent to an air bearing surface of the recording head, a return pole magnetically coupled to the write pole, a conductor positioned adjacent to an edge of the write pole at the air bearing surface, a first conductive heat sink connected to the conductor, and a second conductive heat sink connected to the conductor, wherein at least a portion of each of the first and second conductive heat sinks is positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface and wherein each of the first and second conductive heat sinks includes a structure for augmenting confinement of a magnetic write field adjacent to the write pole. Magnetic storage devices that include the magnetic recording head are also included.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a ring of magnetic material, a source for applying a setting magnetic field to the ring, and first and second electrodes for applying an electric current to the ring. A method of using the apparatus to write to a magnetic storage medium is also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a waveguide, an optical transducer for coupling electromagnetic radiation from the waveguide to a point adjacent to an air bearing surface to heat a portion of a storage medium, and a first wire positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface, wherein current in the wire produces a magnetic field in the heated portion of the storage medium.

Abstract: A magnetic recording system is disclosed in which the magnetization dynamics of the write head and recording medium are highly damped. The system may comprise a perpendicular recording head having a write pole, and a recording medium including a hard magnetic recording layer and a soft magnetic underlayer (SUL). The increased magnetic damping in the write pole and SUL suppresses precessional motion of the respective magnetizations, leading to a reduction in transition jitter caused by spurious head field fluctuations. The damping may be increased by providing films or multilayer structures that are doped with rare earth or transition metal elements. Exchange coupled laminates of doped and undoped layers may optimize both the effective damping and write field in the recording system.

Abstract: A compact magnetic recording head is provided. The recording head includes a write pole and a substantially planar yoke, which is coupled to the write pole. The yoke is configured to support a substantially single vortex configuration of magnetization.

Abstract: A magnetic recording head comprises a write pole having a tip adjacent to an air bearing surface of the recording head, a return pole magnetically coupled to the write pole, a conductor positioned adjacent to an edge of the write pole at the air bearing surface, a first conductive heat sink connected to the conductor, and a second conductive heat sink connected to the conductor, wherein at least a portion of each of the first and second conductive heat sinks is positioned adjacent to the air bearing surface and wherein each of the first and second conductive heat sinks includes a structure for augmenting confinement of a magnetic write field adjacent to the write pole. Magnetic storage devices that include the magnetic recording head are also included.

Abstract: Mounting method for a miser laser having a miser crystal on the base surface of a housing, which has a side wall with a housing window for the miser exit beam, is provided. A reference beam is directed through the housing window on to the crystal end face of the miser crystal with an inverted light beam direction which the miser beam to be generated is later to have. An adjusting device which permits mutually independent movements, on the one hand in a direction parallel to the reference beam, and on the other hand perpendicular thereto and parallel to the housing base, and also permits rotations about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the housing base, is used to preadjust the premounted miser stack such that the angle between the surface normal of the crystal end face and the reference beam is approximately 45°, and the reference beam strikes the crystal end face approximately at its center.

Abstract: The device for generating an electrical control according to a position of a light beam in relation to a separating line includes two photodetectors (14,24), one (14) of which is arranged for detecting light falling on one side of the separating line and another (24) of which is arranged for detecting light falling on another side of the separating line. The separating line is an edge (30) extending between two (1,1,1) crystallographic planes of a crystalline substrate and the (1,1,1) crystallographic planes reflect respective parts of the light beam to the respective photodetectors.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an endoprosthesis for an artificial hip-joint, the endoprosthesis including a shank (1) having an adapter (2) at one of its ends. A ballhead (4) is fitted with a recess (6) detachably engaged by the adapter (2) while retaining the ballhead. The adapter (2) and the recess (6) are cylindrical, whereby the ballhead (4) is axially adjustable. A device is provided for retaining the ballhead (4) in various axial positions relative to the adapter (2). Accordingly, the ballhead (4) is adjustable with respect to its axial position and thereby its distance from the adapter (2) or the shank (1) is likewise adjustable. This feature eliminates the need to stock different ballheads matching different anatomic particulars.

Abstract: The circuit board (1) has a component (101) mounted on it by means of a soldering process which causes an automatic, passive alignment of the component (101) due to the surface tension in a melted piece of solder which electrically connects two pads (2, 102), one (102) of which is on the component and the other (2) of which is on the circuit board. Stand-offs (20) are used to provide a suitable spacing or distance between the component (101) and the circuit board (1). The other pad (2) has a surface that is divided into a central part (3) and an edge part (4), both wettable by the solder. The second or edge part (4) is shaped like a ring and surrounds the central part and is composed so that it is more slowly wettable by the solder than the central part. The spacing established by the stand-offs is dimensioned so that a melted piece of the solder between the pads produces a force drawing the component (101) toward the circuit board (1) because of surface tension in the melted solder.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus for the recording and reproduction of signals, including a magnetic tape having plural data tracks running parallel to an edge of the tape; a multi-track reading device including a multi-track playback head configured to read simultaneously plural of the tracks and output signals corresponding to data recorded on the plural tracks; and a housing in which the tape and the reading device are permanently disposed; wherein the tape is adapted for simultaneous recording of data onto plural data tracks of the tape via external recording heads upon the apparatus being connected to an external recording facility.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for recording longitudinal track bundles on an information medium. The method involves recording tracking information in special tracks in said track bundles. The special tracks are contiguous between each other. When recording a new track bundle a recording and/or reading head may be positioned using tracking information contained in special tracks of a previously recorded track bundle. Several examples of patterns used for coding tracking information in the special tracks we described.

Abstract: A shaped and pierced hollow workpiece is made by first confining a hollow metal blank in a cavity of a die which has an inner surface and is formed with a lateral compartment. The blank is internally pressurized to press it outward against the inner surface of the cavity while forming at the compartment an outwardly projecting bulge. A tool is pressed against an outer surface of the bulge and the bulge is pressed inward so as to at least partially to invert it and press a central portion of the bulge against an opposite inside wall of the blank. A hole is then machined through the blank where the central portion of the bulge engages the opposite inside wall.

Abstract: The present invention concerns an endoprosthesis for an artificial hip-joint, the endoprosthesis comprising a shank (1) having an adapter (2) at one of its ends. A ballhead (4) is fitted with a recess (6) detachably engaged by the adapter (2) while retaining the ballhead. The adapter (2) and the recess (6) are cylindrical, whereby the ballhead (4) is axially adjustable. A device is provided for retaining the ballhead (4) in various axial positions relative to the adapter (2). Accordingly, the ballhead (4) is adjustable with respect to its axial position and thereby its distance from the adapter (2) or the shank (1) is likewise adjustable. This feature eliminates the need to stock different ballheads matching different anatomic particulars.

Abstract: Low-redundancy codes are increasingly being striven for, such codes thus inevitably requiring comparatively long code words. However, since the memory requirement for coding tables increases considerably with the length of the code words, the use of code tables is then no longer expedient. Instead, coding is then effected by selecting the optimum code word in each case from a plurality of different code words taking account of coding; prescriptions and spectral decisions. For this purpose, the maximum run length for each code word is also determined, inter alia, but the spectral decisions are decisive as long as the maximum run length does not exceed a predetermined maximum value. Provided that the end of one code word and the beginning of a succeeding code word have the same binary value, incorrect decisions in the selection of the optimum code word may arise in the region where the synchronizing pattern is keyed in.

Abstract: A signal regenerator for binary signals includes a signal equalizer having an input filter and an integrator. An amplitude detector and a period detector are arranged to receive the output signal of the equalizer. A high pass filter is included in a feedback loop to feed the output signal of one of the detectors back to the equalizer.

Abstract: A decoding circuit for 2T encoded binary signals, comprises: a data input terminal; a first D-type flip flop having an input coupled to the input terminal; a first exclusive OR gate having inputs coupled to the input terminal and an output of the first D-type flip flop; a shift register having an input coupled to an output of the exclusive OR gate; a second D-type flip flop having an input coupled to the shift register; and, a second exclusive OR gate having inputs coupled to an output of the second D-type flip flop and to a tap of the shift register, the second exclusive OR gate having an output at which decoded input signals are reconstituted. The second D-type flip flop may be a constituent stage of the shift register, the inputs of the second exclusive OR gate being coupled to adjacent taps of the shift register. At least one of the adjacent taps is the output of the constituent stage formed by the second D-type flip flop.

Abstract: An apparatus for distinguishing a wanted signal in a binary signal sequence having both wanted signals and interference signals includes the step of generating a correction value which has a first value to indicate a wanted binary signal and a second value to indicate a binary interference signal. The wanted signal has a preselected maximum number of bits. A first counter counts the bits of the binary signal sequence and changes the correction value from the first value to the second value when the preselected maximum is exceeded. The correction value is reset to the first value when the temporal spacing between two occurrences of excesses of the preselected maximum number exceeds a predetermined spacing.

Abstract: A circuit for developing a binary bitstream signal from a ternary analog signal having positive and negative amplitude peaks includes an analog-to-digital converter for receiving the analog signal and providing digital samples in accordance with the amplitude and polarity of the analog signal. The most significant bit of digital sample indicates the polarity of an analog signal sample. A threshold value is compared to a current amplitude sample to indicate a level change in the analog signal when the sample value exceeds the threshold value and the polarity differs from that of the preceding sample which exceeded the threshold value. The current sample value which exceeds the threshold value is compared with preceding sample values which exceeded the threshold value, and a level change is indicated by the sample value which most exceeds the threshold value. Incorrect sample values are inverted in a correction circuit.