Discovision Associates

Magnetic Peripherals Inc.

Information Storage, Inc.

Russell A Meyer

Douglas E Hoover

Leonardus J Grassens

Hollis O'Neal Hall

Kent Thomas Murphy

Wilhelm Taylor

Steve S Popovich

William J Stanis

Charles DePuy

Christopher Miller

Gary Anderson

David L Papiernik

Christopher A Knorr

James K Louie

Gary R Mitchell

Herbert E Heaton

Christopher J Monsen

Robert G Russell

Zdenek A Hollen

A method and apparatus for manufacturing information storage devices is described herein. Two embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In particular, the invention includes, but is not limited to, a bearing insertion device, a lens insertion device, a coarse coil gluing tool, a spring gluing tool, a device for gluing pole pieces, a pentaprism insertion and inspection tool, a constants and transfers test, an optics module alignment device, wedge, microprism and beamsplitter insertion devices, a read channel alignment test, a mass balance attachment invention, a position sensor alignment tool, an invention for the attachment of focus and radial coils, a quality control test for test an optical storage device prior to insertion of the objective lens, and a servo system test. The invention described herein is designed to manufacture information storage devices with increased quality and efficiency.

Method and apparatus for manufacturing information storage devices

A method and apparatus for positioning and tracking a Random Access Memory (RAM) optical head over an information storage media having a plurality of tracks formed by optically readable deformations ('pits') in the media including, a central controller, a laser diode optical-system carrying head which is movable transversely of the tracks in incremental steps for coarse positioning of the head over a selected band of tracks and a servomechanism which positions the laser's objective lens over a specifically addressed track and maintains it there until another track is addressed. Also discussed is a unique method of generating a tracking error signal as an input to the servomechanism which includes the asynchronous detection of a sector mark and the generation of an independent clocking signal from the synchronous detection of off-track pairs of pits spaced uniformly between other data in the track to produce the tracking error signal.

RAM head positioning and tracking system

An optical recording system has a system optical apparatus carried by a fine tracking system which moves the optical apparatus for small track seeking movements and for track following. The fine tracking system is carried by a linear actuator coarse tracking system which makes large track seeking movements so that the entire area of the optical recording media is available to the system. Both the coarse tracking system and the fine tracking system are operated by servo control loops. The fine tracking system responds to tracking status signals with respect to track following and track seeking signals in response to track addressing information. The coarse tracking system responds to position sensor signals derived from a position sensor which is associated with the fine tracking system and provides signals related to the relative position of the fine tracking system to the coarse tracking system. The coarse tracking system follows the movements of the fine tracking system using signals from the position sensing system as the only necessary control for the coarse tracking system.

Head positioning servo system for optical recording with coarse and fine

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