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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:
Nov. 20, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dai Feng, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Iomega Corporation, Roy, UT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/102 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/102 ;
Abstract
A head loading apparatus for a disk drive device is disclosed that limits the velocity of the heads during loading of the heads onto the surface of a data storage medium. The apparatus is characterized by varying a voice coil current or voltage during the head loading process. The varying current or voltage nudges read-write heads off of a load ramp and onto the surface of a data storage medium.