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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:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1998
Chiao-Ping Ku, Fremont, CA (US);
Alex Yu-Chih Tsay, San Jose, CA (US);
Seagate Technology, Inc., Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Abstract
A system for detecting and measuring the height of asperities on a substantially flat solid surface is disclosed. The system includes a glide head assembly for contacting asperities on the substantially flat solid surface and producing a sensor voltage whose frequency response is a function of both the height of the asperities and the location at which the glide head assembly contacts the asperities. The system also includes a signal processing device responsive to the sensor voltage from the glide head assembly for analytically defining a frequency window within which the frequency response of the sensor voltage is relatively independent of the location on the glide head assembly at which the glide head assembly contacts the asperities. The signal processing device measures the height of an encountered asperity by computing an actual RMS voltage within the frequency window of the frequency response of the sensor voltage produced by the glide head assembly after contacting the asperity.
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