Patent · US Expired

Data storage device, control device, off-track control method, and control method

US7035034B2 · kind B2 · utility

15Cited by
6References
30Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateMay 21, 2003
Grant dateApr 25, 2006
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 14, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B5/5582
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A hard disk device includes a servo control unit that constitutes a servo loop for a head seek for performing read/write of data from/to a recording medium, a correction signal generation unit for generating a correction signal for correcting a control by the servo control unit based on an output of a predetermined sensor, and a correction signal control unit for estimating an effect of supplying the correction signal to the servo loop and for controlling whether or not the correction signal is to be supplied to the servo loop in response to a result of the estimation. Moreover, the gain of the sensor is dynamically controlled in response to the above estimation result.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.