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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2022
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Robert G. Biskeborn, Hollister, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to a tape drive including a tape head. The tape head comprises one or more modules, each module comprising a plurality of writers disposed in a first row, a plurality of readers disposed in a second row parallel to the first row, a first servo reader aligned with either the first row or the second row, and a second servo reader aligned in a third row parallel to the first and second rows. The first servo reader and the second servo reader are offset from one another in a first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the first direction being a cross-track direction. The first servo reader and the second servo reader are spaced apart in the first direction about 1 μm to about 20 μm.