公开(公告)号：US12033679B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-09

申请号：US17852058

申请日：2022-06-28

申请人： TAPE ARK

发明人： Guy Holmes

IPC分类号： G11B5/584 ,  G11B5/48 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B15/18

CPC分类号： G11B5/584 ,  G11B5/4893 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B15/18

摘要： A tape reader is provided that reads data from a tape without requiring specific alignment. The tape reader may include a reader head comprising a sensor array with a plurality of sensors that detect the data independent of the track within which the data is stored. Multiple sensors may detect data in each track instead of a single, dedicated sensor for each track. The sensor array may comprise multiple sensors in multiple dimensions, such as perpendicular to the movement of the tape or in parallel to the movement of the tape, including serpentine linear recording formats where the sensors may be in a matrix positioned at various angles from horizontal to vertical.

公开(公告)号：US20220415348A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-29

申请号：US17852058

申请日：2022-06-28

申请人： TAPE ARK

发明人： Guy Holmes

IPC分类号： G11B5/584 ,  G11B5/48 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B15/18

摘要： A tape reader is provided that reads data from a tape without requiring specific alignment. The tape reader may include a reader head comprising a sensor array with a plurality of sensors that detect the data independent of the track within which the data is stored. Multiple sensors may detect data in each track instead of a single, dedicated sensor for each track. The sensor array may comprise multiple sensors in multiple dimensions, such as perpendicular to the movement of the tape or in parallel to the movement of the tape, including serpentine linear recording formats where the sensors may be in a matrix positioned at various angles from horizontal to vertical.

公开(公告)号：US11308992B1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-19

申请号：US16711959

申请日：2019-12-12

申请人： Amazon Technologies, Inc.

发明人： Keun Soo Jo ,  Munif M. Farhan ,  Andrew Kent Warfield ,  Seth W. Markle ,  Roey Rivnay

IPC分类号： G11B5/54 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B21/08

摘要： Technologies are provided for accessing a physical location of a storage medium reader of a storage device. A computing device can transmit a request for the storage medium reader's physical location. The storage device can determine the physical location of the storage medium reader and transmit the location to the computing device. The computing device can use the physical location of the storage medium reader to determine an expected latency for retrieving one or more stored data items. The computing device can transmit a command to change the physical location of the storage medium reader, for example by changing a location of the storage medium reader with respect to a given storage medium and/or changing a storage medium that is accessed by the storage medium reader. The computing device can control the placement of the storage medium reader in order to optimize retrieval of data items from the storage device.

公开(公告)号：US20220035563A1

公开(公告)日：2022-02-03

申请号：US16942959

申请日：2020-07-30

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation

发明人： Tsuyoshi Miyamura ,  SETSUKO MASUDA ,  Keisuke Tanaka

IPC分类号： G06F3/06 ,  G11B5/008 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B27/34 ,  G11B27/10

摘要： Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method of writing a dataset to a tape, the dataset comprising a plurality of sub datasets, each sub dataset including a plurality of headers and a plurality of records. The method includes storing, in each header of each sub dataset, at least a portion of a record range indicator indicating a range of records included in the dataset.

公开(公告)号：US10685676B1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US16430537

申请日：2019-06-04

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation

发明人： Atsushi Abe ,  Tsuyoshi Miyamura ,  Eiji Ogura

IPC分类号： G11B15/43 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B5/008

摘要： Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for handling seek commands for a tape drive. The method includes receiving a seek command for moving tape in the tape drive to a target position. The method further includes moving the tape from the current position to a high water mark (HWM) with the tape at a first tension and moving the tape from the HWM to the target position with the tape at a second tension. The method further includes updating the HWM to reference the target position.

公开(公告)号：US09495981B1

公开(公告)日：2016-11-15

申请号：US14750103

申请日：2015-06-25

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation

发明人： Robert G. Biskeborn ,  Wlodzimierz Stanley Czarnecki ,  Jason Liang

IPC分类号： G11B5/41 ,  G11B15/03 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B5/008 ,  G11B15/18 ,  G11B15/67

CPC分类号： G11B5/41 ,  G11B5/00813 ,  G11B15/026 ,  G11B15/03 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B15/1883 ,  G11B15/672

摘要： Preventing accumulations on read/write (R/W) elements of a tape appliance tape head. Power and current to the R/W elements of the tape head are turned off. A tape head cycle using a tape cartridge is then performed. In another aspect of the invention, the tape cartridge is a standard tape cartridge. Tape processing of the standard tape cartridge is suspended. The tape head cycle is performed using the standard tape cartridge. Tape processing of the standard tape cartridge is then resumed.

摘要翻译： 防止磁带设备磁带头读/写（R / W）元件上的累积。 断开带头的R / W元件的电源和电流。 然后执行使用带盒的磁头循环。 在本发明的另一方面，带盒是标准带盒。 标准磁带盒的磁带处理暂停。 磁带头循环使用标准磁带盒进行。 然后恢复标准磁带盒的磁带处理。

公开(公告)号：US09443539B2

公开(公告)日：2016-09-13

申请号：US14791659

申请日：2015-07-06

申请人： International Business Machines Corporation

发明人： Giovanni Cherubini ,  Johan B. C. Engelen ,  Simeon Furrer ,  Mark A. Lantz

IPC分类号： G11B5/265 ,  G11B5/17 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B5/584 ,  G11B5/78 ,  G11B5/008 ,  G11B20/12 ,  G11B5/592

CPC分类号： G11B20/1201 ,  G11B5/00813 ,  G11B5/00817 ,  G11B5/00826 ,  G11B5/17 ,  G11B5/265 ,  G11B5/584 ,  G11B5/5928 ,  G11B15/087 ,  G11B2220/956

摘要： A write head for writing a servo pattern to a magnetic tape medium includes a first coil configured to generate a first magnetic flux when applying an electric current to the first coil, a second coil configured to generate a second magnetic flux when applying an electric current to the second coil, and a pole piece structure configured to guide the generated magnetic flux. The pole piece includes a first ring structure for guiding the first magnetic flux, a second ring structure for guiding the second magnetic flux, and a common section of the first and the second ring structure which common section is arranged between the first coil and the second coil. The write head further includes a section containing a gap in each of the first ring structure and the second ring structure. The magnetic flux is oriented in opposite directions across the two gaps.

摘要翻译： 用于将伺服图形写入磁带介质的写入头包括：第一线圈，被配置为当向第一线圈施加电流时产生第一磁通;第二线圈，被配置为在施加电流时产生第二磁通量 第二线圈，以及构造成引导所产生的磁通量的极片结构。 极片包括用于引导第一磁通的第一环结构，用于引导第二磁通的第二环结构，以及第一和第二环结构的公共部分，其中公共部分布置在第一线圈和第二磁通之间 线圈 写头还包括在第一环结构和第二环结构中的每一个中包含间隙的部分。 磁通量沿两个间隙的相反方向取向。

公开(公告)号：US08760788B2

公开(公告)日：2014-06-24

申请号：US13152225

申请日：2011-06-02

申请人： Nhan X. Bui ,  Reed A. Hancock ,  Tomoko Taketomi

发明人： Nhan X. Bui ,  Reed A. Hancock ,  Tomoko Taketomi

IPC分类号： G11B15/087 ,  G11B5/584

CPC分类号： G11B5/56 ,  G11B5/00817 ,  G11B5/584 ,  G11B15/602 ,  G11B20/10388 ,  G11B2220/93

摘要： In one embodiment, a tape drive system includes a magnetic head having at least one servo sensor for track-following at least one defined servo track of a longitudinal tape, a tape motion controller configured to move the longitudinal tape past the magnetic head, a compound actuator configured to translate the magnetic head laterally with respect to the longitudinal tape, and a control configured to track-follow the at least one defined servo track by reducing a position error between the magnetic head and a desired position, transition from a write state to a monitor state when the position error is greater than a threshold, transition from the monitor state to a stop write state when the position error is greater than the threshold for a first period, and transition from the monitor state to the write state when the position error is less than the threshold for a second period.

摘要翻译： 在一个实施例中，磁带驱动系统包括具有至少一个伺服传感器的磁头，该伺服传感器跟踪至少一个所定义的纵向磁带的伺服磁道，配置成使纵向磁带移动通过磁头的磁带运动控制器， 致动器被配置为相对于纵向带横向地平移磁头;以及控制器，其被配置为通过减小磁头与期望位置之间的位置误差跟踪至少一个定义的伺服轨迹，控制器从写入状态转换到 当位置误差大于阈值时的监视状态，当位置误差大于第一周期的阈值时从监视状态转变到停止写入状态，以及当位置误差大于阈值时从监视状态转变到写入状态 错误小于第二个周期的阈值。

公开(公告)号：US06978080B1

公开(公告)日：2005-12-20

申请号：US09650742

申请日：2000-08-30

申请人： Tsuneaki Ishimura ,  Kazuo Nozaki

发明人： Tsuneaki Ishimura ,  Kazuo Nozaki

IPC分类号： H04N5/10 ,  G11B15/087 ,  H04N5/268 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N5/775 ,  H04N5/92 ,  H04N11/00 ,  H04N7/00

CPC分类号： H04N5/775 ,  G11B15/087 ,  H04N5/9201

摘要： A video switching apparatus in which an operating mode (recording/reproduction) of a recording/reproducing apparatus is discriminated from a video output signal of the recording/reproducing apparatus by recording/reproduction detecting portion, thereby enabling an automatic switching of a setting mode of the video switching apparatus. It is possible to prevent recording failures which may be otherwise caused due to an inconsistency between the mode settings of the video switching apparatus and the recording/reproducing apparatus connected thereto.

摘要翻译： 一种视频切换装置，其中通过记录/再现检测部分将记录/再现装置的操作模式（记录/再现）与记录/再现装置的视频输出信号区分开，从而能够自动切换 视频切换装置。 可以防止由于视频切换装置的模式设置和与其连接的记录/再现装置之间的不一致而可能导致的记录故障。

公开(公告)号：US06977964B1

公开(公告)日：2005-12-20

申请号：US09541088

申请日：2000-03-31

申请人： Masako Asamura ,  Satoshi Kurahashi ,  Tomohiro Ueda ,  Taketoshi Hibi ,  Tatsuo Yamasaki ,  Junko Ishimoto ,  Tohru Inoue ,  Ken Onishi

发明人： Masako Asamura ,  Satoshi Kurahashi ,  Tomohiro Ueda ,  Taketoshi Hibi ,  Tatsuo Yamasaki ,  Junko Ishimoto ,  Tohru Inoue ,  Ken Onishi

IPC分类号： G11B15/087 ,  G11B15/18 ,  G11B15/467 ,  G11B15/52 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/30 ,  H04N5/7826 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N9/804 ,  H04N9/82 ,  H04N9/877 ,  H04N9/888 ,  H04N7/12 ,  H04N7/26

CPC分类号： G11B15/087 ,  G11B15/18 ,  G11B15/1875 ,  G11B15/4673 ,  G11B15/52 ,  G11B27/005 ,  G11B27/3027 ,  G11B2220/90 ,  H04N5/78263 ,  H04N5/783 ,  H04N9/8042 ,  H04N9/8227 ,  H04N9/877 ,  H04N9/888

摘要： A digital VTR for magnetically recording and replaying a bit stream, includes a detector, an extractor, a mode designator, and an output unit. The detector detects intra-picture data in the bit stream being replayed from tracks in a magnetic medium. The extractor extracts the intra-picture data from the bit stream based on output from the detector. The mode designator designates one of a normal replay and a slow replay as a replay mode. The slow replay is replay performed at a speed slower than normal replay. The output unit stores the extracted intra-picture data, and outputs only the extracted intra-picture data as replay picture data when the slow replay mode is designated.

摘要翻译： 用于磁记录和重放比特流的数字VTR包括检测器，提取器，模式指示符和输出单元。 检测器检测从磁介质中的轨迹重放的比特流中的图像内数据。 提取器根据来自检测器的输出从比特流中提取图像内数据。 模式指示符指定正常重放和慢速重播中的一个作为重放模式。 慢播放的播放速度比普通播放速度慢。 输出单元存储所提取的图像内数据，并且当指定了慢重放模式时，仅将所提取的图像内数据作为重放图像数据输出。