Fine positioning for disk drive
CA 1292801 C · Owner: Unisys Corporation · Inventors: Revels, William R.
Overview
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Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Disclosed is a Fine positioning arrangement for track-follow servo means in a disk drive arrangement wherein servo head output is processed logically to indicate violation by the head of a near-boundry or a far-boundry for prescribed times to indicate whether the transducer is truly "on-center" or not and to logically exclude noise and other error conditions that might compromise this indication.
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- Granted December 3, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 3, 2008.
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