摘要:
A data player or a method in which a reading and/or writing head is positioned according to anyone of 3 methods or combinations thereof: Calculating a desirable speed curve to position the head from a first to a second position and adjust the speed of the head's movement to the desirable speed, calculating and outputting an amount of energy to a driving mechanism to move the head a determined number of steps, increasing the power applied to a driving mechanism until the head is moved for one step. The positioning may additionally be used to perform coarse positioning while the head is positioned on a track of a data medium using a fine positioning mechanism.
摘要:
A compensation element (317) in a feedforward line in a dual stage control system for a data storage system compensates for the undesired transient motion of a first positioning element (i.e., a coarse actuator). The compensation element is a transfer function that is applied from the first positioning element's control signal (Uv) to a second positioning elements's (306) (i.e., microactuator's) input. The transfer function is defined as formula (I) where ^Vnom (z) is a transfer function model of the nominial portion of the first positioning element, ^Vres (z) is a transfer function model of the resonance portion of the first positioning element, and ^M(z) is a transfer function model of the dynamics of the second positioning element. This feedforward transfer function effectively cancels the resonances of the first positioning element without requiring the inversion of the resonance transfer function.
摘要:
A filter for attenuating a resonance mode without substantial phase margin loss. The filter comprises a transfer function having an additional pole, such that the phase of the input signal is advanced. The phase-advanced filter substantially attenuates all frequencies above a selected center frequency while avoiding substantial phase margin loss.
摘要:
Even if an assumed value of a track pitch and an actual value thereof are different from each other, an optical pickup (2) can be positioned at a target position at high speed, which can realize higher-speed access. A drive-means control apparatus according to the present invention includes a target position calculating means (58) for calculating a target track number based on a head logic address of a track to be accessed, a current position calculating means (60) for calculating a current track number based on a current address, a number-of-tracks calculating means (61) for, based on the target track number and the current track number, calculating the number of tracks by which the optical pickup (2) is to be moved, a step number calculating means (62) for calculating a step number based on the number of tracks, the track pitch (assumed value) and so on, and an assumed value correcting means (65) for correcting the track pitch (assumed value) based on the calculated step number and the number of remaining tracks.
摘要:
A disk apparatus comprising a precise positioning mechanism for finely displacing the information recording/reproducing mechanism in a radial direction of the disk, a coarse positioning mechanism for positionally displacing the information recording/reproducing mechanism in an information recording region in the radial direction of the disk, a coarse positioning mechanism driving circuit for controlling the drive of the coarse positioning mechanism upon receiving the drive signal in accordance with the drive signal generated by the reference speed generator, and a precise positioning mechanism driving circuit for controlling the drive of the precise positioning mechanism in accordance with a difference between the moving speed detected by the speed detector and the reference speed generated by the reference speed generator.
摘要:
Disclosed is a seek control method in an optical storage device, of seek-moving a light beam of an optical head from a certain track on an optical storage medium to a desired track. This seek control method comprises a step of calculating a target position, a step of detecting a present position from a track error signal indicating a relative position between the light beam and the track, a step of calculating such a feedback control quantity as to zeroize an error between the target position and the present position and a step of controlling a moving mechanism for moving the light beam in accordance with the feedback control quantity. The present position detecting step includes a first present position detecting step of detecting the present position from a signal into which the track error signal is D/A-converted when a velocity of the light beam is low and a second present position detecting step of detecting the present position from a count value obtained by counting track zero-cross signals acquired by slicing the track error signal at a zero level when the velocity of the light beam is high.
摘要:
A novel tracking control device and method is disclosed. In the tracking control device and method, digital information is reproduced from a recording medium by a reproducing head, an error contained in the reproduced digital information is detected, and the relative position between the recording medium and the reproducing head is controlled by using the detection result. In addition, an arrangement capable of realizing a high tracking capability with respect to the non-linearity of a track is also disclosed. The arrangement forms a plurality of tracking error signals indicative of positional deviations between the reproducing head and a plurality of divided areas into which each track formed on the recording medium is divided, and selectively uses the plurality of tracking error signals.
摘要:
A servo control method of a hard disk drive includes: providing a disk having a plurality of first servo track patterns, including a gray code field, for providing track information for each track, and a plurality of second servo track patterns which fail to include the gray code field of the first servo track patterns, both the first and second track patterns being positioned on the same track; providing a head for reading data from a given track of the disk or writing data on the given track; checking, in response to a data read/write command received from a host computer, whether or not the head must move to a target track; if it is determined that the head must move to the target track, repeatedly switching from one head to a following head, in a sequential manner, to perform a track seek; after performing the track seek, checking whether or not a velocity of the head is decreasing; and, if it is determined that the velocity of the head is decreasing, fixing the head on the disk including the target track to perform track following.
摘要:
Methods and apparatus for ascertaining a position of a read/write head relative to a reference position on a rotatable disk in a computer disk drive are disclosed. In one aspect of the present invention, a method for determining the position of a read/write head relative to a reference position on a rotatable disk in a computer disk drive includes reading amplitudes of a set of servo bursts embedded in tracks of the disk and classifying the servo bursts into a converging servo burst set and a detection servo burst set around the reference position. The method also includes forming a position error signal by augmenting a detection servo burst signal with a converging servo burst signal as well as a normalization factor. The converging servo burst signal is formed from amplitudes of the converging servo burst set at the position of the read/write head. The detection servo burst signal is formed from amplitudes of the detection servo burst set at the position of the read/write head. The position error signal represents an offset from the reference position.
摘要:
A system for positioning a transducing head in a disc drive device over a selected track of a rotatable disc includes an actuator arm which is rotatable about an axis, a head suspension mechanism connected to the actuator arm, and a slider carrying a transducing head and supported by the head suspension mechanism. A low resolution motor moves the actuator arm about the axis to effect coarse movement of the head between tracks of the disc. A piezoelectric element is embedded in the actuator arm to distort the arm to effect fine positioning of the head. Control circuitry distributes electrical signals to the low resolution motor and the piezoelectric element to selectively control movement thereof. The piezoelectric element is embedded in the actuator arm by removing a predetermined amount of material from the actuator arm and bonding the piezoelectric element in the resulting space it the actuator arm.