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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:
Dec. 09, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 03, 2013
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zhigang Bai, Fremont, CA (US);

Davide Guarisco, San Jose, CA (US);

Zhihao Li, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/09 (2006.01); G11B 20/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 20/1217 (2013.01);
Abstract

Adaptively determining shingle guard band widths on at least one disk of a data storage device (DSD). The at least one disk includes a plurality of zones of shingle tracks for storing data. At least one of a magnetic erase width (MEW) and a magnetic read width (MRW) are measured and a shingle track pitch (STP) is determined. The shingle guard band width is determined based at least partly on the STP and at least one of the MEW or the MRW.


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