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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2009

Filed:

Jul. 29, 2004
Applicants:

Takanori Maeda, Saitama, JP;

Atsushi Onoe, Saitama, JP;

Inventors:

Takanori Maeda, Saitama, JP;

Atsushi Onoe, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A position control area (A) is partly formed in the recording area () of a recording medium () and position information is recorded only in the position control area (A). To record data in the recording medium () by a head () having a plurality of cantilevers (A), (B), . . . , the position information is read by the cantilever (E) corresponding to the position control area (A) and, based on the position information, the positioning control or moving control of all the other cantilevers is performed.


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