IP Library Granted Patent US 10,622,010
Granted Patent B2
US 10,622,010 · App. 16/266,141 · Granted Apr 14, 2020

Control value setting method of thermal actuator for magnetic disk device

Inventor: Toru Watanabe (Kawasaki Kanagawa, JP)
Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba; Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation
G11B5/012G11B2005/0021
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Patent No.
US 10,622,010
App. No.
16/266,141
Granted
Apr 14, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

According to one embodiment, curve fitting, which uses power supplied to the thermal actuator when a magnetic head is brought into contact with a magnetic disk by the thermal actuator and a quadratic or higher curve, is performed at at least five radial positions in a radial direction of the magnetic disk in a case of setting a control value of the thermal actuator, and it is determined as abnormal contact detection when a Z value of an RMS of a fitting residual from the quadratic or higher curve of each power exceeds a predetermined value.

Claims (14)

1. A control value setting method of a thermal actuator for a magnetic disk device, the method comprising:

performing curve fitting by a control unit of the magnetic disk device, which uses power supplied to the thermal actuator when a magnetic head is brought into contact with a magnetic disk by the thermal actuator and a quadratic or higher function, at least five radial positions in a radial direction of the magnetic disk in a case of setting a control value of the thermal actuator; and

determining the performance as abnormal contact detection by the control unit when a Z value of an RMS of a fitting residual from the quadratic or higher function of each power exceeds a predetermined value.

2. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 1 , further comprising

determining, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, the abnormal contact detection when a Z value of a coefficient of the function exceeds the predetermined value.

3. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 1 , further comprising

determining, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, the abnormal contact detection when a Z value, which is a shift amount of a distance from an inter-coefficient correlation line of the function, exceeds the predetermined value.

4. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 1 , wherein

the curve fitting is performed, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, by excluding a value of a radial position sequentially for each of the radial positions to evaluate the Z value of the RMS of the fitting residual, and a radial position at which the Z value of the RMS is evaluated as a minimum value is determined as an abnormal contact radial position.

5. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 4 , wherein

the curve fitting is performed, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, by excluding a value of a radial position sequentially for each of the radial positions to evaluate a sum of the Z value of the RMS of the fitting residual and the Z value of the coefficient of the function, and a radial position at which the sum of the Z values is evaluated as a minimum value is determined the an abnormal contact radial position.

6. The control value setting method of the thermal actuator according to claim 4 , wherein

the curve fitting is performed, by the control unit of the magnetic disk device, by excluding a value of a radial position sequentially for each of the radial positions to evaluate a sum of the Z value of the RMS of the fitting residual and the Z value which is a distance from a correlation between coefficients of the function, and

a radial position at which the sum of the Z values is evaluated as a minimum value is determined as the abnormal contact radial position.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 4, 2019
From: WATANABE, TORU
To: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA; TOSHIBA ELECTRONIC DEVICES & STORAGE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 048227/0857 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2018-152429 · Aug 13, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20200051587A1 · Feb 13, 2020
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