Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha

Nobuhiro Aisawa

Shigeki Koizumi

Masaru Koyahara

Noriyuki Kawamura

Tetsuo Tomita

In a method for driving a head-seek stepping motor of a disk drive device of the kind performing a head seek to move a recording or reproducing head in a radial direction of a disk-shape recording medium by driving the stepping motor according to pulses of a step signal, a period of time for exciting the stepping motor at one time in response to each pulse of the step signal is set at a length of time which is shorter than a pulse interval of the step signal and which is a minimum length of time necessary for the head seek when the pulses of the step signal are continuously inputted for a continuous head seek, and a re-exciting action is performed on the stepping motor in its last excited phase for a given period of time at the end of the continuous head seek.

Method for driving stepping motor for head seek in disk drive device

A magnetic disc unit comprising motor means having a spindle rotatably mounted on a base for rotating a magnetic recording medium, a loading arm having one end swingably attached to the base and a center cone rotatably attached to the other end of the loading arm. The magnetic recording medium is interposed between the spindle and the center cone. A button lever having a control button projecting from one end is attached to the base and is movable with respect thereto. A clamping lever is also mounted to the base and linkage means interlocks the control button and the clamping lever. Depression of the control button translates the button lever so as to rotate the clamping lever to a first position in which the center cone engages the spindle with the magnetic recording medium interposed therebetween. Further depression of the control button translates the button lever to rotate the loading arm to a second position in which the center cone is released from the magnetic recording medium and the clamping lever presses the loading arm in the vicinity of the center cone.

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Nobuhiro Aisawa