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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:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
May. 02, 2001
Applicant:
Curtis W. Egan, Thornton, CO (US);
Inventor:
Curtis W. Egan, Thornton, CO (US);
Assignee:
Maxtor Corporation, Longmont, CO (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Detecting flaws in a disk drive includes sampling a read signal provided by reading a data pattern from a disk to obtain samples, obtaining significant samples from the samples, deriving a value from the significant samples, and reporting a flaw if a comparison between the derived value and a threshold value is unacceptable.