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Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 13, 2012
Applicants:

Richard Leo Galbraith, Rochester, MN (US);

Weldon Mark Hanson, Rochester, MN (US);

Martin Aureliano Hassner, Mountain View, CA (US);

Travis Roger Oenning, Rochester, MN (US);

Satoshi Yamamoto, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Richard Leo Galbraith, Rochester, MN (US);

Weldon Mark Hanson, Rochester, MN (US);

Martin Aureliano Hassner, Mountain View, CA (US);

Travis Roger Oenning, Rochester, MN (US);

Satoshi Yamamoto, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

HGST Netherlands B.V., Amsterdam, NL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 27/36 (2006.01); G11B 5/02 (2006.01); G11B 20/06 (2006.01); G11B 20/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system are provided for implementing magnetic defect location detection on-the-fly for hard disk drives. A magnetic media readback signal of a hard disk drive is demodulated to generate phase modulation (PM) and amplitude modulation (AM) signals. A new coordinate plane defined by a combined phase modulation (PM) and amplitude modulation (AM) phasor-defect detector calculation function used to locate magnetic defects on-the-fly.


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