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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. 20, 2000
Filed:
May. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka-fu, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M / ; G11C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
714758 ; 714768 ; 360 7702 ; 360 7704 ; 360 7705 ; 3692753 ; 3692755 ;
Abstract
The present invention is a magnetic disk apparatus which is provided with means for dividing a large amount of data such as video data into segments with error correction code added thereto and further dividing the data including the error correction code into recording segments, while being capable of efficiently correcting errors even for a sector size of large unit and processing sectors of variable length.