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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
David H. F. Harper, Vail, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An apparatus, according to one embodiment, includes: a head carriage assembly having a beam for coupling to a magnetic head, and an actuator assembly coupled to the beam of the head carriage assembly. The actuator assembly includes: a fine motion motor for enabling positioning of the beam of the head carriage assembly along a fine motion direction oriented perpendicular to an intended direction of media movement, a skew motion motor for enabling rotatable positioning of the head carriage assembly about an axis of skew which extends perpendicular to a plane defined by the intended direction of media movement across the head carriage assembly and the fine motion direction, and a main coil configured to induce skew motion and lateral motion of the beam of the head carriage assembly relative to the fine motion motor and the skew motion motor upon energization of the main coil by applying current thereto.