Magnetic data embedding system
US7016132B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 27, 2004 |
| Grant date | Mar 21, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 20, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B5/59633
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A magnetic data embedding system (or disk servo writer) includes a stack with a master disk (3) and a plurality of magnetic disks (4) mounted on a shaft of a spindle motor (6), and a rotary positioner (11) which integrally holds one or more read-only heads (71 to 74) for reading the master disk and a plurality of groups of servo heads (101 to 104) and which simultaneously turns both of the kinds of heads. The groups of servo heads have access to the top and bottom sides of the magnetic disks. The servo heads are made carry out writing to the same (top or bottom) side of each of the disks in parallel, within assigned track ranges for the respective servo heads. In order to make the servo heads on the same side of the disks carry out writing correctly in their assigned track ranges in several of the disclosed embodiments, an address correction data memory (23) supplies information about track position errors between the read-only heads and their associated servo heads to a servo head address deriving unit (24), which corrects track addresses of items of servo information read by the read-only heads and transmits the corrected track addresses to a servo pattern generator (9) to make t…
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