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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:
Oct. 10, 2000
Filed:
Mar. 21, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 53 ; 360 46 ; 360 65 ; 360 67 ; 360 25 ;
Abstract
A thermal asperity detection method includes the steps of (a) converting an analog signal reproduced from a magnetic recording medium into a digital signal using an analog-to-digital converter, (b) detecting thermal asperity based on the digital signal, and (c) automatically recognizing and managing detection of the thermal asperity by the step (b) by firmware.