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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2004
Applicant:
Nobuyuki Sakamoto, Ome, JP;
Inventor:
Nobuyuki Sakamoto, Ome, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An actuator supports a head such that the head is movable in a radial direction of a disk. The actuator has a voice coil motor (VCM) used as a driving source for the actuator. A voice coil motor driver (VCM driver) supplies the VCM with a driving current for driving the VCM. During a head unload operation of using the actuator to retract the head to a ramp away from a recording surface of the disk, a driver driving unit drives the VCM driver by a voltage higher than that required for a non-head-unload operation.