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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Wei Tian, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Jianhua Xue, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Wenzhong Zhu, Apple Valley, MN (US);
Ralph W. Cross, Lyons, CO (US);
Javier Guzman, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Assignee:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/29 (2006.01); G11B 5/49 (2006.01); G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 5/48 (2006.01); G11B 5/265 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/4969 (2013.01); G11B 5/09 (2013.01); G11B 5/265 (2013.01); G11B 5/29 (2013.01); G11B 5/4893 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device includes a storage medium and a transducer head with two writers positioned to write to a same surface of the storage medium. The two writers are separated from one another along a down-track direction of a data track on the storage medium and independently controllable to write data.