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Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 19, 2013
Applicant:

Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;

Inventor:

Richard Travis Behrens, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/265 (2006.01); G11B 5/33 (2006.01); G11B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for reading data from a magnetic medium are provided. A system for reading data from a magnetic medium includes an electromagnetic head array, where the electromagnetic head array includes a plurality of read sensors. Each read sensor of the plurality of read sensors is configured to sense a magnetic field of the magnetic medium and to generate a signal based on the magnetic field. Circuitry is configured to combine the signals of the plurality of read sensors to generate a resulting signal. The resulting signal defines an effective read width of the electromagnetic head array, where the effective read width is narrower than a read width of any of the plurality of read sensors.


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