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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood City, CA (US);
William J. Vanderheyden, Broomfield, CO (US);
Darryl Wayne Yeakley, Erie, CO (US);
Steven G. Trabert, Boulder, CO (US);
ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
A recording head assembly that includes two side-by-side and separately actuated heads. To increase tape capacity while controlling tape mis-registration, write elements are provided in two subsets with a first subset provided on a first of the two heads and a second subset provided on the second of the two heads. The two subsets are offset a distance along the direction of travel for a tape (or horizontal offset) while the two subsets of write elements are also offset along the longitudinal axes of the heads (or bumps on the heads) such that a first subset acts as the upper half of the write element set and a second subset acts as the lower half of the write element set. The subsets of write elements simultaneously writes data, and a similar arrangement can be provided for two subsets of read elements that are aligned with the write elements.