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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Kaizhong Gao, North Oaks, MN (US);
Edward Gage, Lakeville, MN (US);
Huaqing Yin, Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Yonghua Chen, Edina, MN (US);
Assignee:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01); G11B 5/49 (2006.01); G11B 5/31 (2006.01); G11B 5/012 (2006.01); G11B 5/127 (2006.01); G11B 5/48 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/4984 (2013.01); G11B 5/012 (2013.01); G11B 5/1278 (2013.01); G11B 5/3116 (2013.01); G11B 5/4886 (2013.01);
Abstract
A storage device includes a transducer head with multiple write elements having write poles of different sizes. For example, the transducer head may include two write poles of different width configured to write to a same surface of a storage medium. A controller of the storage device is configured to selectively engage one of the multiple write elements to write data to the storage medium.