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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 18, 2005
Kuang-yang Tu, Irvine, CA (US);
David Dung Tien Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Kuang-Yang Tu, Irvine, CA (US);
David Dung Tien Nguyen, Fountain Valley, CA (US);
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Lake Forest, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed is a disk drive including an actuator having a coil, a head attached to the actuator, and a disk including at least a first track and a second track, and a processor for controlling operations in the disk drive including a seek operation from the first track to the second track in which the head is moved between the first track and the second track by the movement of the actuator. The processor under the control of a program generates a deceleration velocity profile for the seek operation that is determined based upon a deceleration velocity profile function that includes a back electromagnetic force (BEMF) model to take into account back electromagnetic forces (BEMFs) associated with the coil of the actuator such that the BEMFs are mathematically modeled. The head is commanded to seek to the second track utilizing the deceleration velocity profile function that includes the BEMF model.