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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:
Jun. 13, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Takashi Nonaka, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 741 ; 360 7303 ; 360128 ; 360137 ;
Abstract
A disk device with a cleaning device and a cleaning method according to the present invention include cleaning motor control means for rotating a disk oppositely to a direction of rotation of the disk in recording and regeneration, and seeking means for forcing a slider to seek the disk over a whole recording region during the opposite rotation of the disk to permit any dust to adhere to the slider, whereby a motor is started and stopped (contract-start-stop) after cleaning the recording region, so as to force the dust adhering to the slider to fall on a disk surface for cleaning the slider.