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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. 14, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2003
Applicants:
Jorge F. Escobar, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrei Khurshudov, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jorge F. Escobar, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrei Khurshudov, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 15/18 (2006.01); G11B 21/02 (2006.01); G11B 5/596 (2006.01); G11B 15/46 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and program product supporting adjusting a temperature of a hard disk drive (HDD) during testing. An HDD test program is performed within a pre-determined optimal test temperature range. The HDD is kept within this pre-determined test temperature range by switching HDD operation modes back and forth between a higher heat generating Rapid Seek Mode and a lower heat generating IDLE mode. The HDD is thus kept within the optimal test temperature range without the use of external heating and/or cooling devices.