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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:
Nov. 10, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark D Moore, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bradley Alan Silen, Sausalito, CA (US);
Paul Beard, Milpitas, CA (US);
Assignee:
Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 69 ; 369 53 ;
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer system for detecting the insertion of a medium in a medium drive, including applying energy to a drive motor of the medium drive; changing the state of a medium change signal, in response to the energy, to reflect the presence of a medium in the medium drive; and relaxing the energy before the drive motor turns.