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Granted Patent B2
US 12,308,053 · App. 18/768,322 · Granted May 20, 2025

Signal processing device, magnetic tape drive, magnetic tape, magnetic tape cartridge, program, signal processing method, and magnetic tape manufacturing method

Inventors: Toru Nakao (Kanagawa, JP); Tetsuya Kaneko (Kanagawa, JP); Yoichi Akano (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
G11B5/56G11B5/00821
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Patent No.
US 12,308,053
App. No.
18/768,322
Granted
May 20, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A magnetic head includes a pair of servo reading elements corresponding to a pair of servo bands adjacent to each other in a width direction. A processor acquires a first signal based on a first result obtained by reading a servo pattern in a first servo band by a first servo reading element included in a pair of servo reading elements, acquires a second signal based on a second result obtained by reading the servo pattern in a second servo band by a second servo reading element included in the pair of servo reading elements, and outputs a deviation amount signal corresponding to a deviation amount in time between the first signal and the second signal.

Claims (17)

1. A magnetic tape comprising:

a base film is made of polyethylene terephthalate, polyethylene naphthalate, or polyamide; and

a plurality of servo bands formed in the magnetic tape,

wherein the plurality of servo bands are disposed at intervals in a width direction of the magnetic tape,

a plurality of servo patterns are formed in each of the plurality of servo bands along a longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape, and

a deviation amount between the servo patterns having corresponding positions in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape between a pair of servo bands adjacent to each other in the width direction among the plurality of servo bands corresponds to the deviation amount obtained from a signal processing device, the signal processing device comprising:

a processor that acquires data read by a magnetic head from the magnetic tape,

the magnetic head includes a pair of servo reading elements corresponding to a pair of the servo bands adjacent to each other in the width direction among the plurality of servo bands, and

the processor

acquires a first signal based on a first result obtained by reading the servo pattern in a first servo band included in the pair of servo bands by a first servo reading element included in the pair of servo reading elements,

acquires a second signal based on a second result obtained by reading the servo pattern in a second servo band included in the pair of servo bands by a second servo reading element included in the pair of servo reading elements, and

acquires a deviation amount in time between the first signal and the second signal.

2. The magnetic tape according to claim 1 , wherein a signal corresponding to the deviation amount is stored in a partial region of the magnetic tape.

3. A magnetic tape cartridge comprising: the magnetic tape according to claim 1 accommodated therein.

4. The magnetic tape cartridge according to claim 3 , further comprising:

a noncontact storage medium that is able to perform communication in a noncontact manner,

wherein a signal corresponding to the deviation amount obtained from the signal processing device is stored in the noncontact storage medium.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-054514 · Mar 29, 2022 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation 18172693 · Feb 22, 2023
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