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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 02, 2020
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Fremont, CA (US);
Inventors:
Michael Thomas Johnson, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Peng Peng, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Declan Macken, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Fremont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/6082 (2013.01); G11B 5/6017 (2013.01); G11B 5/6029 (2013.01); G11B 5/6094 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for using a comparator-based, relaxation oscillator circuit to detect capacitance of a capacitor formed between a metallic feature in a read/write head and a metallic feature in a storage medium.