The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jul. 29, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 22, 2012
Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi-lg Data Storage, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Neo, Chigasaki, JP;
Hitachi Consumer Electronics Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hitachi—LG Data Storage, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information recording/reproducing device capable of recording or reproducing information to or from a plurality of information recording media, includes a plurality of information recording/reproduction drives which can record or reproduce the information recording media and during recording or reproduction, can measure information recording medium quality evaluation item values representing values indicative of qualities of the information recording media; and an information recording medium monitor which can calculate tendency to quality degradation of the information recording medium from information recording medium quality evaluation item values preserved by an information recording medium monitoring database which can preserve the measured information recording medium quality evaluation item values. The information recording medium monitor is capable of calculating from a tendency to quality degradation of an arbitrary information recording medium the quality of another information recording medium.