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Actuator driving apparatus and magnetic disk drive system with a smaller number of high power amplifiers than actuators

US4851939A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 11, 1987
Grant dateJul 25, 1989
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Expiry dateMay 11, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/012
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a magnetic disk drive apparatus having a plurality of actuators, or a magnetic disk drive system constructed of a plurality of head disk assemblies (HDA's); a magnetic disk drive apparatus or system in which the actuators included in the above apparatus or system can be arbitrarily and selectively coupled with a plurality of access control circuits and high power amplifiers that are smaller in number than the actuators.

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