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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2018
Applicant:

Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Riyan Mendonsa, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Puskal Prasad Pokharel, Edina, MN (US);

Walter R. Eppler, Cranberry Township, PA (US);

Assignee:

Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/596 (2006.01); G11B 23/18 (2006.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01); G11B 5/74 (2006.01); G11B 5/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 23/18 (2013.01); G11B 5/09 (2013.01); G11B 5/59638 (2013.01); G11B 5/59688 (2013.01); G11B 5/746 (2013.01); G11B 20/1217 (2013.01);
Abstract

A servo sector on a disk is read via first and second readers that both span two or more user data tracks. The servo sector has a crosstrack width that spans the two or more user data tracks. The first reader provides a first signal based on detecting a total longitudinal field of the servo sector. The second reader provides a second signal based on detecting a total perpendicular field of the servo sector. A position error of the first and second readers is detected using. A value of the first signal can be used to detect a position error, detect a track-to-track phase error, and/or detect a Gray code error of a track ID field of the servo sector.


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