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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1987
Filed:
May. 03, 1985
Alan B Marchant, Kendall, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
Given a medium comprised of a vertically recordable underlying region of a magnetic material and a cooperating overlying region of horizontally recordable material, the invention calls for the pre-recording of such tracking information, in the underlying region, that between adjacent tracks there occurs a vertically disposed flux reversal in the underlying region, each such track being approximately the width of a playback core disposed to read data recorded in the overlying region. Deposited on the side face of the playback core, in accordance with the invention, is a magneto-resistive element. So long as the playback core is on-track, the magneto-resistive element 'sees' equal vertical fields on either side of the track edge; but should the playback core start to mistrack, the magneto-resistive element will see vertical flux of one or another polarity. Such polarized vertical flux translates into a corresponding resistance change in the magneto-resistive element which, in turn, is employed to correct the mistracking.