Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100220409 | MAGNETIC STORAGE MEDIUM, INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICE, AND CONTROL DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a magnetic storage medium, includes a magnetic recording layer that includes: a servo area including predetermined servo information; a user data area including predetermined user information; two preamble areas including a plurality of magnetic bodies made of magnetic particles, the magnetic bodies being arranged in a staggered pattern so that the staggered pattern is inverted with respect to an axis of symmetry at a track center; and a re-sync mark area positioned at a head of the preamble areas and indicates a start of the preamble areas. | 09-02-2010 |
20110255189 | METHOD OF DETECTING TOUCHDOWN OF MAGNETIC HEAD USING TIMESTAMPS, AND MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE TO WHICH THE METHOD IS APPLIED - According to one embodiment, a method of detecting contact of a magnetic head with a magnetic disk by changing the dynamic flying height of the magnetic head in a magnetic disk drive is disclosed. The method can detect a change in the rotational speed of the magnetic disk. The method can detect the contact of the magnetic head with the magnetic disk based on the detected change in the rotational speed. | 10-20-2011 |
20120105998 | METHOD OF DETECTING TOUCHDOWN OF MAGNETIC HEAD USING TIMESTAMPS, AND MAGNETIC DISK DRIVE TO WHICH THE METHOD IS APPLIED - According to one embodiment, a method of detecting contact of a magnetic head with a magnetic disk by changing the dynamic flying height of the magnetic head in a magnetic disk drive is disclosed. The method can change control of a spindle motor configured to rotate the magnetic disk, from feedback control to open loop control. The method can detect a change in rotational speed of the magnetic disk during the open loop control. The method can detect contact of the magnetic head with the magnetic disk based on the detected change in the rotational speed. | 05-03-2012 |
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20080212228 | MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM - A magnetic disk device has a magnetic recording medium in which one servo track and an array of at least one data track are formed alternately. A head portion includes a set of reading heads arranged in a radius direction of the magnetic recording medium for reading signals from the magnetic recording medium, and a controller controls a position of the head portion based on servo signals read from the servo tracks by the reading heads disposed at opposite ends of the set of reading heads. | 09-04-2008 |
20090195911 | MAGNETIC RECORDING DEVICE - A magnetic recording device includes a patterned media magnetic recording medium where multiple tracks are arranged for radial direction in a concentric manner, the tracks each being formed by arranging multiple recording dots. The recording dots are each made of an isolated magnetic material and arranged in a rotational direction. The magnetic recording device further includes a magnetic head. The magnetic head includes: a main magnetic pole that faces the magnetic recording medium; a magnetic field generation coil that generates magnetic field to be transmitted to the magnetic recording medium through the main magnetic pole; a return yoke that receives the magnetic flux transmitted to the magnetic recording medium from the main magnetic pole and returns the magnetic flux thus received to the magnetic field generation coil; and a search coil that detects a change in magnetic flux passing through the return yoke. | 08-06-2009 |
20090244779 | STORAGE APPARATUS - A storage apparatus includes a magnetic storage medium which is formed with a data portion based on isolated magnetic dots and a servo pattern portion, a drive mechanism which drives the storage medium, a head actuator which includes a head for reading and writing data from and to the storage medium, and a permanent magnet which is disposed at a position that is opposable to a whole radial region of the servo pattern portion, during a rotation of the storage medium. | 10-01-2009 |
20100053814 | MAGNETIC STORAGE MEDIUM AND STORAGE APPARATUS - A magnetic storage medium includes: burst lines each including magnetic bodies placed in a nonmagnetic body in a predetermined repetitive pattern repeated in the radial direction, the burst lines arranged in the circumferential direction at predetermined intervals, wherein the phases of the predetermined repetitive patterns are shifted in the radial direction relative to a circumferential line at least between the adjacent ones of the burst lines. | 03-04-2010 |
20100118432 | MAGNETIC STORAGE APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic storage apparatus includes a magnetic storage medium that includes a servo pattern in which magnetic bodies magnetized to one of an S-pole and an N-pole are discretely arranged in a non-magnetic substance at least in a recording track line direction, an electromagnetic conversion element configured to output a reproduction signal according to a magnetic field leaking from the magnetic bodies; a rectifier circuit configured to receive the reproduction signal swinging from positive to negative and vice versa corresponding to a magnetic pole, and generate a reproduction signal swinging to either a positive or negative direction according to the reproduction signal; and a control circuit configured to cause the electromagnetic conversion element to be positioned to a single recording track on the magnetic storage medium according to the reproduction signal generated in the rectifier circuit. | 05-13-2010 |