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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:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 30, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jin-Seak Kim, Suwon, KR;
Assignee:
SamSung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 7814 ; 360 7704 ;
Abstract
An intelligent hard disk drive (HDD) is provided with a track pitch adjustment, which includes a detector for detecting a position difference between a present track position and a target track position during a track search mode to update the track position at every servo interrupt, and an adjuster for adjusting a displacement of a head according to a track of each of a number of zones demarcated on the disk during a track following mode to keep the head on-track.