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Method and apparatus for suppressing seek-induced vibration in a disc drive

US6560059B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 5, 2000
Grant dateMay 6, 2003
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Expiry dateApr 5, 2020

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/556
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus suppresses seek-induced vibration in a disc drive. The apparatus is responsive to a selected bang-bang command to provide an operating signal to the actuator, such as a voice coil motor, representing the selected bang-bang command with damped amplitudes of dominant vibration mode frequencies of the selected bang-bang command. One example of the apparatus is a finite impulse response filter having a discrete transfer function of C(1+al1z−l+al2z−l·2+ . . . +alrz−l·r), where C is a constant, al1, al2, . . . alr represent impulse amplitudes at spaced positions within a sample period and z−l·1, z−l·2, . . . z−l·r represent delay components at the respective spaced positions. In a preferred embodiment, the finite impulse response filter employs a pole-zero cancellation technique to damp amplitudes of selected frequencies. The discrete transfer function is derived based on a conjugate pair of poles in an s-domain for each of a plurality of vibration frequencies of where &zgr;i is the damping ratio and &ohgr;ni is the natural frequency for the i-th mode.

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