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Tape drive with independent transverse motion of transducer and transducer housing

US10014017B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Marcus Breuer · Oppenheim, DE
Bernd Freitag · Partenheim, DE
Frank Krick · Ockenheim, DE
Tim Oswald · Gimbsheim, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 28, 2017
Grant date	Jul 3, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 28, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG11B5/5504
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A tape drive system with a transducer (for example, a magnetic head arrays/separation shield) located in a recess of a transducer housing (for example, supporting rails, a U-shaped carbon tape guide). During seek operations and/or data access operations (that is, read/write operations), the transducer and the transducer housing are moved, in the transverse direction relative to the direction of elongation of the tape, independently of each other. The motion of the transducer housing (for example, back and forth oscillatory movement in the transverse direction) is controlled to even out wear across the tape-facing surface of the transducer housing. Some embodiments accomplish this by using separate motors to transversely move the transducer and the transducer housing.

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