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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1994
Takayuki Aizawa, Yokohama, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to the present invention, in a drive interface provided between a drive device for writing information in a recording medium or reading information from a recording medium and a controller device for controlling the drive device, there are provided a data signal line for transmitting data signals between the controller device and the drive device and mode signal lines for transmitting mode signals for identifying the kinds of data to be transmitted by the data signal line, and the kinds of data to be transmitted are identified by decoding the mode signals. Write operation and read operation of the drive device are also controlled by the mode signals.
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