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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1990
Filed:
Jan. 22, 1987
Makoto Mizukami, Tokyo, JP;
Akio Mitamura, Tokyo, JP;
Ryoichi Arai, Saitama, JP;
Yasunaga Mitsuya, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuo Mikazuki, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A head positioning system on a recording medium includes a recording medium having a periodic arrangement of data tracks and servo tracks wherein the periodic arrangement having a predetermined period includes N.sub.d (N.sub.d is an integer equal to or larger than 1) number of data tracks and N.sub.s (N.sub.s is an integer equal to or larger than 2) number of servo tracks, the servo tracks having single phase servo patterns, alternatively recorded thereon, a multi-head carrying a plurality of head elements disposed in a direction perpendicular to the tracks, so that the distance between head elements is (N.sub.h +1/M)P where N.sub.h is an integer equal to or larger than O, M is an integer equal to or larger than 2, and P is a track pitch, wherein the multi-head is movable in a direction generally perpendicular to the direction of the tracks, means for selecting a servo head for reading servo tracks and a data head for reading data tracks from the head elements during a seek operation, wherein a selected servo head is selected to reproduce a servo pattern from a servo track and a selected data head is determined based on the selected servo head, and wherein the multi-head is positioned on a servo track in every 1/M track pitch of movement.