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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:
May. 26, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kurt F Hallamasek, Oakland, CA (US);
Keith A Kambies, Fremont, CA (US);
George R Varian, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Ampex Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 75 ; 360 50 ; 360 51 ;
Abstract
A servomechanism for controlling the position of a magnetic-tape playback head (16) with respect to a track (24) of digital data on a magnetic tape (22) positions the head by reference to an error signal that error-signal-generation circuitry (FIG. 10). generates. Sample-clock signals obtained from simultaneously read azimuth-recorded data tracks clock respective frequency dividers (52 and 54), and a phase detector 56 generates the error signal by comparing the frequency dividers' outputs.