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Motomichi Shibano

Motomichi Shibano, Ome-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100220409MAGNETIC 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

Motomichi Shibano, Oume-Shi JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100128384MAGNETIC RECORDING MEDIUM AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium to which a signal is recorded by reversing magnetization of a magnetic body, includes: a servo region to which a servo signal is written; a data region configured to include a magnetic region of a track to which data is written, the magnetic region being separated from other magnetic region of other track; and a periodic magnetic pattern region configured to be provided at a head portion of the data region following the servo region, and is inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a circumferential direction of the magnetic recording medium, over a predetermined length in a radius direction of the magnetic recording medium.05-27-2010

Motomichi Shibano, Kawasaki JP

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20080212228MAGNETIC 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
20090195911MAGNETIC 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
20090244779STORAGE 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
20100053814MAGNETIC 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
20100118432MAGNETIC 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

Patent applications by Motomichi Shibano, Kawasaki JP

Motomichi Shibano, Kanagawa JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090244750MAGNETIC-RECORDING-MEDIUM TESTING APPARATUS, MAGNETIC-RECORDING-MEDIUM TESTING METHOD, AND MAGNETIC RECORDING APPARATUS - A magnetic-recording-medium testing apparatus includes a frequency-characteristic analyzing unit that analyzes a frequency characteristic of a reproduced signal in an area of a magnetic material where a continuous frequency signal is written, in a magnetic recording medium that records a signal according to a magnetization direction of the magnetic material, a signal-amplitude comparing unit that compares signal amplitudes of a fundamental wave and a higher harmonic wave with each other based on the frequency characteristic analyzed by the frequency-characteristic analyzing unit, to estimate a cross sectional shape pattern of the magnetic recording medium, and a performance-quality determining unit that determines performance quality of the magnetic recording medium based on the cross sectional shape pattern of the magnetic recording medium estimated by the signal-amplitude comparing unit.10-01-2009