G11B5/596

WIRING CIRCUIT BOARD
20230156914 · 2023-05-18 · ·

A suspension board with circuit including a first mounting region for mounting a slider and a second mounting region for mounting a piezoelectric element. The wiring circuit board includes a metal support layer, a base insulating layer, and a conductive layer. The conductive layer includes a first wiring pattern, a second wiring pattern, and a shield wiring pattern. The first wiring pattern includes a read wiring. The second wiring pattern includes a power supply wiring disposed at spaced intervals to the read wiring. The shield wiring pattern includes a shield wiring disposed between the read wiring and the power supply wiring.

Portable tape storage on a mobile platform

A system may include one or more tape drives. A front portion of the one or more tape drives may be exposed to allow access to one or more respective tape cartridges of each of the one or more tape drives. The system may include one or more servers. The one or more servers may control the one or more tape drives. The system may include one or more ports communicatively connected to the one or more tape drives. Each of the one or more ports may respectively be associated with a specific sensor. Each of the specific sensors may record a specific datum. The system my include one or more power supplies.

Flexible printed circuit offset finger stiffener

A hard disk drive flexible printed circuit (FPC) includes a plurality of fingers extending from a main portion, with each finger having a thermally-conductive stiffener, at least one wiring layer over the stiffener, and a cover film over the at least one wiring layer, where the centroid of the stiffener is offset from the centerline of the cover film. Thus, utilizing the heat-sink characteristics of the stiffener, temperature differences among the upper and lower electrical pads of the FPC resulting from a heat-based interconnection procedure can be reduced and the temperatures across the FPC finger made more uniform, damage to the FPC prevented, and soldering yields improved.

Magnetic disk device and method of write processing of postcode

According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk including a first region with a first format efficiency and a second region with a second format efficiency lower than the first format efficiency, a head that writes data to the disk and reads data from the disk, and a controller that selects a first postcode to be written to the first region from a plurality of postcodes with different lengths and writes the first postcode to the first region, and selects a second postcode to be written to the second region from a plurality of postcodes with different lengths and writes the second postcode to the second region.

Estimating recording head fly height using machine learning

Two or more data values are received from one or more sensors of a hard disk drive. The two or more data values are indicative of a fly height of a recording head of the hard disk drive. The two or more data values are input into a machine-learning processor during operation of the hard disk drive. A fly height of the recording head during the operation of the hard drive head is adjusted based on an output of the machine learning processor.

MAGNETIC TAPE AND MAGNETIC TAPE DEVICE

The magnetic tape includes a magnetic layer having ferromagnetic powder and a binder on a non-magnetic support, in which a total thickness of the magnetic tape is equal to or smaller than 5.30 μm, the magnetic layer includes a timing-based servo pattern, a center line average surface roughness Ra measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 1.8 nm, one or more components selected from the group consisting of fatty acid and fatty acid amide are included in the magnetic layer, and a C—H derived C concentration calculated from a C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on the surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is equal to or greater than 45 atom %.

DETECTION DEVICE, INSPECTION DEVICE, MAGNETIC TAPE CARTRIDGE, MAGNETIC TAPE, MAGNETIC TAPE DRIVE, MAGNETIC TAPE SYSTEM, DETECTION METHOD, INSPECTION METHOD, AND PROGRAM
20230206950 · 2023-06-29 · ·

A detection device includes a processing device and a storage medium. The processing device stores a result of reading a reference servo pattern by a servo reading element in the storage medium as an ideal waveform signal, acquires a servo band signal which is a result of reading a servo pattern recorded in a servo band by the servo reading element, and detects a servo pattern signal which is a result of reading the servo pattern by the servo reading element by comparing the ideal waveform signal with the servo band signal. The reference servo pattern is recorded between a BOT section and an EOT section in a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape.

MAGNETIC TAPE AND MAGNETIC TAPE DEVICE

The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support; a non-magnetic layer including non-magnetic powder and a binder on the non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binder on the non-magnetic layer, in which the total thickness of the non-magnetic layer and the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 0.60 μm, the magnetic layer includes a timing-based servo pattern, and logarithmic decrement acquired by a pendulum viscoelasticity test performed regarding the surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 0.050.

MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE AND SSW METHOD
20230206949 · 2023-06-29 ·

According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a disk, a first head, a second head, a controller. The disk includes a first surface and a second surface different from the first surface. The first head carries out read and write of data from and to the first surface. The second head carries out read and write of data from and to the second surface. The controller adjusts a spiral speed of at least one of the first head and the second head according to a cylinder offset amount corresponding to a positional difference between the first head and the second head. The spiral speed is a speed at which spiral servo patterns are to be written.

PHASE LOCKING MULTIPLE CLOCKS OF DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES
20230206951 · 2023-06-29 ·

Systems and methods are disclosed for phase locking of a clock. In some embodiments, a phase locked clock (PLC) module can phase-lock a write clock to a media written with multiple servo zones of different frequencies. In some implementations, this can be utilized to perform a self-servo write (SSW) of a disc surface within a hard disc drive (HDD). A PLC module can perform a method of writing with a single frequency phase coherently while a read element passes over servo zones with different frequencies. While the PLC module can perform such methods for a SSW process, the methods can also be utilized for other applications that can benefit from writing with a single frequency phase coherently based on servo zones with different frequencies.