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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 1990
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1989
Karl A Belser, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Paul J Dounn, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ian E Henderson, Tucson, AZ (US);
Ronald J Kadlec, Tucson, AZ (US);
Spencer D Roberts, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A track-seeking system for an optical disk using a velocity control loop with partially-digitized velocity measurement. A quadrature signal is generated based on summing the halves of a position error signal to give directionality to track-crossing counts. A so-called piggy-back construction, wherein a fine positioner is carried by a coarse positioner, is employed. Feed-forward controls are provided from the fine to the coarse positioner. At track-capture time, the dynamic range of the fine positioner is momentarily increased.