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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
James C. Cates, Louisville, CO (US);
Yung Yip, Afton, MN (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/147 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/147 ;
Abstract
A magnetic servo write head incorporates timing pattern read and write heads that are non-symmetrically slanted relative to an adjacent servo write head to improve timing pattern detection for a timing pattern written at an edge of a magnetic storage media. The slanted orientation of the timing write and read heads provides optimized timing pattern location and track width on a magnetic tape, while also allowing a sufficient number of windings to be used on an associated coil to improve overall signal-to-noise ratio.