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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:
Apr. 01, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 09, 2023
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sandy Xianghui Xiao, San Diego, CA (US);

Noureddine Kermiche, Dana Point, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/55 (2006.01); G11B 5/60 (2006.01); G11B 20/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/5586 (2013.01); G11B 5/6029 (2013.01); G11B 20/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various aspects are directed to a data storage device comprising one or more disks, an actuator mechanism configured to position a selected head among one or more heads proximate to a corresponding disk surface among the one or more disks, and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to detect repeatable runout (RRO) noise components from a measurement of fly height of the selected head above one or more sectors of a fly height measurement track, and remove the detected RRO noise components from one or more per-sector readback signal measurements.


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