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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 1990
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Timothy Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Kalok Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 7814 ; 360 7804 ; 360 75 ;
Abstract
A disk drive includes a disk (100) having a plurality of tracks (-2 TO N). The outermost track (-2) includes a first portion (102a) having a data pattern recorded therein that is unique to that track. The data in the first portion is used to determine the location of the outermost track. The outermost track also includes a second portion (102b) including data which is used to indicate the location of a selected sector within each track.