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Disk drive servo system using gain limited high-frequency track-following compensator

US5050016A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateOct 12, 1989
Grant dateSep 17, 1991
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Expiry dateOct 12, 2009

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S360/903
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The disk drive system includes an actuator, responsive to an adjustment value, for adjusting the position of a data head with respect to data tracks located on the surface of a disk, and a controller coupled to the data head and to the actuator. The controller receives servo information read from the surface of the disk by the data head. In turn, the controller determines an adjustment value to be applied to the actuator. The adjustment value is calculated dependent on a predetermined variable gain factor. Where the controller determines the position of the heat is oscillating about the center line of a predetermined data track at a frequenc above a predetermined frequency, the controller reduces the gain factor applied in determining the adjustment value.

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