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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2016
Applicant:
Seagate Technology Llc, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seagate Technology LLC, Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/02 (2006.01); G11B 5/58 (2006.01); G11B 5/596 (2006.01); G11B 20/10 (2006.01); G11B 5/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/59627 (2013.01); G11B 5/56 (2013.01); G11B 20/10212 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system may compensate for skew in a patterned medium, such as but not limited to a self-assembling bit patterned medium, with a write pole separated from a data storage medium by an air bearing. The write pole being connected to a controller. The data storage medium can have a plurality of magnetic islands arranged in data tracks with each data track having a track center. The write pole may be selectively shifted from the track center by the controller to compensate for a skewed write pole configuration.