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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2010
Filed:
May. 11, 2007
Applicants:
Housan Dakroub, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
Stefan Andrei Ionescu, Burnsville, MN (US);
Inventors:
Housan Dakroub, Dearborn Heights, MI (US);
Stefan Andrei Ionescu, Burnsville, MN (US);
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The disclosure is related to detecting a fault condition of a transducer for reading and writing data to a data storage medium. The fault condition can be detected based on a potential difference between a reference voltage and a common mode of the transducer.