Fujitsu Corporation

Toshiba Storage Device Corporation

Masanori Fukushi

Kazuhiko Takaishi

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Tomoyoshi Yamada

Tsugito Maruyama

Toshiya Kato

Sumio Kuroda

Yukio Ozaki

Taizan Kobayashi

Toshinori Kasuga

Tohru Harada

Eiji Takada

Hirofumi Ohsawa

Terushige Arai

Masaru Ishijima

Tetsuya Nagai

A pattern transfer apparatus includes a storage-medium-surface detecting unit that detects a foreign substance or defect on a surface of a storage medium and specifies a position and a size of the foreign substance or defect; a relative-position adjusting unit that adjusts a relative position on a contact surface between the surface of the storage medium and a transfer pattern surface of a transfer master, and a relative-position-adjustment instructing unit that calculates an adjusted value of the relative position according to a detection result, and instructs the relative-position adjusting unit to adjust the relative position based on the adjusted value.

Pattern transfer apparatus and pattern transfer method

A master-disk producing device produces a master disk with master-disk identification information added. A disk producing device produces a first disk with the master-disk identification information added, using the master disk with the master-disk identification information added. A first disk device obtains, after the first disk with the master-disk identification information added is mounted, first correction information from a correction-information storing device based on the master-disk identification information of the first disk.

Disk-device correcting system, information managing device, master-disk producing device, and master-disk producing method

There is provided a servo information recording device having a simple structure, being implementable in lower cost, and capable of writing servo information with high reliability and a servo information recording method. The servo information recording device includes a head swingably supported relative to a predetermined swing axis and a head drive section that swings the head within a predetermined zone in the radial direction of the disk medium. The device also has a controller that controls the head drive section and writes the servo information onto a track of the disk medium. Assuming that R is the outer circumferential radius of the disk medium and P is a distance between the center of the disk medium and pivot (swing axis), the swing axis is disposed at a position at which P/R falls beyond about 1.35.

Servo information recording device and servo information recording method

A storing unit stores first correction information for correcting a distortion synchronized with a rotation frequency of servo information of a first disk. A control unit controls positioning of a head on a target track by correcting the servo information of the first disk with the first correction information. Measurement information used for measuring the first correction information is calculated based on second correction information for the servo information in other disk apparatus including a second disk on which the servo information is formed using a common master medium with the first disk.

Disk apparatus, information processing system, and information providing apparatus

The method of positioning a disk-shaped medium is capable of precisely positioning the center of the disk-shape medium with respect to a center of a rotary shaft. The method comprises the steps of: inserting a cylindrical hub into a center hole of the disk-shaped medium; and covering a hub adaptor, which is eccentrically fixed to a rotary shaft, with the hub so as to position the disk-shaped medium on the rotary shaft. Directions of eccentricity of the disk-shaped medium, the hub and a hub unit are defined on the basis of amount of eccentricity between the disk-shaped medium and the hub, that between the hub and the hub adaptor and that between the hub adaptor and the rotary shaft.

Method of positioning disk-shaped medium

A vibration extraction processing unit extracts a deflection component synchronous with a rotation from a clock signal of a non-contact sensor so as to correct a clock jitter. A clock generating unit generates a clock signal of any format frequency preliminarily set up according to the clock signal from the vibration extraction processing unit. A sector correction processing unit measures an error due to the frequency deflection so as to correct the writing start position for the format pattern signal of each sector containing a servo frame signal stored in a memory according to the measured error. Writing processing units read out the corrected format pattern signal from the memory according to a synchronous signal corresponding to a single turn of a disc and a format frequency clock signal and then writes into a disc medium face.

Servo track writing device and method thereof

A servo writing device which writes servo data in each sector of each track of a magnetic disk, wherein servo data recorded positions of the tracks are mutually corresponded. The servo writing device includes a clock head for generating reference clock signals and a standard clock generating circuit generating standard clock signals, whose frequency is higher than that of the reference clock signals and which is not synchronized with the reference clock signals. The device further includes a start pulse generating circuit receiving the reference clock signals as clock signals and generating a start pulse corresponding to the servo data recorded position and a synchronizing circuit synchronizing the start pulse with the standard clock signals and generating a synchronizing-start pulse. In addition, the device also includes a pattern generating circuit receiving the standard clock signals as clock signals and generating the servo data synchronizing with the synchronizing-start pulse.

Servo data writing device

The method of the present invention is capable of shortening the time required for positioning an inner actuator and writing servo track signals on a magnetic disc, and improving the quality of the written servo track signals. The amount of displacement between the inner actuator and an external actuator is detected with a present position of the external actuator. A first deviation between a travel destination of the external actuator and a present position of the inner actuator is detected on the basis of the amount of the displacement, the present position of the external actuator and the travel destination thereof. The inner actuator is controlled so as to make the first deviation within a predetermined standard range.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Masanori Fukushi