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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:
Mar. 07, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Lester Schowe, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
Maxtor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
341 97 ; 360 51 ; 341 94 ;
Abstract
This invention describes the use of a counter and digital logic to provide a timing pulse needed to decode Gray code position information on the tracks of a rotating disk storage media when the timing pulse is missing because the head of the disk drive is straddling two tracks as the Gray code passes beneath the head. The logic synchronizes the timer to provide a pulse at precisely the right time if and only if a pulse originated by the Gray code is missing.