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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:
Dec. 03, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2012
Applicant:
Hiroyuki Shimanuki, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Shimanuki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC Embedded Products, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A head-cleaning device cleans the surface of a head for reading and writing data from/to a medium, and includes a cleaning unit that moves in parallel with grooves provided in the surface of the head while abutted to the grooves, and thereby cleans the surface of the head.