Patents by Inventor Maura Patricia Connolly

Maura Patricia Connolly has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Magnetic tape drive having improved servo control
    Patent number: 6005737
    Abstract: A magnetic tape drive has a magnetic head, a magnetic tape medium, and a servo controller. The magnetic head has N servo readers and a plurality of transducing heads for transducing with separate data tracks in each range. The magnetic tape medium is proximate the magnetic head, and has first and second servo tracks and 2N-1 ranges. Each range has a plurality of parallel data tracks. The servo controller, which is responsive to servo read signals produced by two of the servo readers, positions the magnetic head so that the plurality of transducing heads transduce with one of the 2N-1 ranges. Servo read signals produced by one of the N servo readers reading from the first servo track and a different one of the N servo readers reading from the second servo track define one range, while servo read signals produced by two servo readers reading from one of the first and the second servo tracks define 2(N-1) of the ranges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Seagate Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Maura Patricia Connolly, William Jude O'Kane