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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Hgst Netherlands B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Inventors:
John Contreras, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Saurabh Deoras, Milpitas, CA (US);
Samir Garzon, San Jose, CA (US);
Remmelt Pit, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Craig K. Yanagisawa, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
HGST Netherlands BV, Amsterdam, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for implementing calibration of cooling sensitivity of embedded contact sensor (ECS) using thermal fly-height control (TFC) actuations, by subtracting the linear part (TFC heat) from the total measured ECS signal, a profile is provided that is sensitive only to the clearance of the head-disk interface due to cooling effect for hard disk drives.