Patents Assigned to Decitek
  • Patent number: 4164781
    Abstract: A track servoing system is disclosed which is particularly useful with floppy disk memories. The system improves the positioning accuracy of a read/write head during a reading operation through the use of tunnel erase heads as read heads. The tunnel erase heads are positioned on either side of the read/write head and their outputs are differentially measured to provide direction and magnitude information to servo positioning electronics. The invention is particularly reliable in reading eccentric variations in data tracks caused by environment, i.e., humidity, temperature, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1979
    Assignee: Decitek
    Inventor: Timothy R. Brown