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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:
Oct. 06, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank Bernett, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
William Ray, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Assignee:
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 7804 ; 360 7702 ; 369 32 ; 369 43 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing a dynamic fine track seeking operation that adaptively fine tunes the entrance criteria used to determine when the head is on track for the specific disc drive under actual operating conditions. The method and apparatus includes adaptively modifying entrance criteria individually for each head in a disc drive according to actual operating conditions with the use of stored entrance criteria for each head, an extra track proximity threshold and a successful entrance counter.