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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. 17, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Masahiro Takagi, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 75 ; 369 51 ;
Abstract
A disk apparatus includes a disk medium for recording information in a track provided on the disk medium, a rotation circuit for rotating the disk medium, and a head for recording-and-reproducing to-and-from the disk medium. The head further includes a recording head element and a reproducing head element arranged along the track at a given gap from each other. The disk apparatus further includes a driving control circuit for swinging the head to a given position in a radial direction of the disk medium. In the disk apparatus, the disk medium is formatted by changing a track pitch in the radial direction of the disk medium.