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Patent No.:

US 7477466 B1

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Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2009

Filed:

Oct. 30, 2006
Applicants:

Osamu Yoshida, Kawasaki, JP;

Shunsuke Aoki, Kawasaki, JP;

Shigenori Yanagi, Kawasaki, JP;

Inventors:

Osamu Yoshida, Kawasaki, JP;

Shunsuke Aoki, Kawasaki, JP;

Shigenori Yanagi, Kawasaki, JP;

Assignee:

Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 27/36 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A control device that controls a storage device having an auto-gain-control function for controlling strength of an output signal from a head that reads data from a storage medium, which includes a determining unit that determines whether the strength of the output signal controlled by the auto-gain-control function is within a predetermined range, an abnormal-float detecting unit that detects an abnormal float of the head based on a result from the determining unit, an abnormal-float-number counting unit that counts a number of times of the detected abnormal floats of the head, and an abnormal-float-count storing unit that stores the counted number of times of the abnormal floats into a storage area of the storage device.


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Yoshida, Osamu. (2009). Control device and storage device (U.S. Patent No. 7477466). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/7477466

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