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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1982
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1980
Patrick S Lee, Campbell, CA (US);
John Cuda, Saratoga, CA (US);
Sperry Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A tachometer for generating a velocity signal in a data disc pack servo system comprising a sampling pulse generator for producing pulses that are spaced from one another by a constant amount representative of a distance increment of radial movement of a servo head in the system, a timer for measuring the time between the sampling pulses, the timer including a clock pulse source and a counter which is started by one sampling pulse and reset by the next succeeding sampling pulse so that the digital output thereof is proportional to time and a computer for computing average velocity by deriving the quotient of the distance increment divided by the time required for the servo head to traverse such distance increment.