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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1998
Hiro Karube, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A head position signal demodulator that demodulates a position signal indicating the position of the magnetic head in the disk radius direction based on a servo pattern recorded on the magnetic disk includes a waveform shaping circuit which shapes an input signal obtained from the magnetic head according to the servo pattern and a phase comparison circuit which compares a phase of an output signal of the waveform shaping circuit and a phase of a reference signal and outputs a phase difference signal. The head position signal demodulator also includes a position signal generation circuit that generates a position signal of the magnetic head based on the phase difference signal, and a phase shifter which changes the phase of the reference signal during micro jogging, for an amount of the phase which has been set according to the amount of the micro jogging.