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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. 30, 1994
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Todd D Baumann, Berthoud, CO (US);
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kanagawa, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
318561 ; 318760 ; 318369 ;
Abstract
During the deceleration portion of a seek operation, the current level provided to the actuator motor of a disk drive is based on a desired linear deceleration versus time profile that has been temporally advanced by half of a servo data position sampling interval. At each position sampling interval, a new current level is determined and maintained for the interval between samples. The actual deceleration current follows a staircase curve centered on the desired profile so as to be self-synchronizing. The current level is also adjusted to compensate for the delay between obtaining a new servo data position sample and applying a new current level to the motor.