US 7,474,493 B2
Alternative DC-burst servo pattern for perpendicular recording
Takehiko Hamaguchi, Odawara (Japan); Hideaki Maeda, Odawara (Japan); Kazuhisa Shishida, Odawara (Japan); and Yasutaka Nishida, Kodaira (Japan)
Assigned to Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan, Ltd., Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Filed on Nov. 06, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/701,593.
Claims priority of application No. 2003-169261 (JP), filed on Jun. 13, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2004/0252394 A1, Dec. 16, 2004
Int. Cl. G11B 5/596 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 360—77.08  [360/48; 360/60; 360/75] 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A magnetic disk apparatus comprising:
a perpendicular disk recording medium having a plurality of tracks disposed thereon concentrically or helically on a layer plane of said medium and having servo areas that cross the plurality of tracks radially on which a servo pattern for decoding a head position signal is disposed with magnetization information in a direction perpendicular to the layer plane;
a motor for rotationally driving the perpendicular magnetic disk recording medium;
a magnetic head on which a single magnetic pole type write element having a main pole and a return pole and a read element are mounted;
an actuator for controlling the position of the magnetic head on the perpendicular magnetic recording medium;
a servo decoder for receiving the read signal from the read element to generate the head position signal; and
a servo circuit for receiving a signal from the servo decoder to supply a driving signal to the actuator,
wherein the servo pattern includes a plurality of burst-signal areas on which magnetizations of a positive direction and magnetizations of a negative direction are perpendicular to the layer plane and disposed alternately in a down-track direction and a plurality of DC-signal areas disposed adjacent in a disk radius direction to the plurality of burst-signal areas, and each DC-signal area is formed of combination of a DC-signal of a positive magnetization direction and a DC-signal of a negative magnetization direction both of which are perpendicular to the layer plane,
the burst-signal areas are disposed by a combination of positive and negative magnetizations so that the sum of the magnetizations of the burst-signal areas is almost 0,
the DC-signal areas are disposed by a combination of positive and negative magnetizations so that the sum of the magnetizations of an area in a range equivalent to a width of the return pole of the single magnetic pole type write element is approximately 0,
said each DC-signal area is formed by a combination of only one DC-signal of a positive magnetization direction and only one DC-signal of a negative magnetization direction, the DC-signal of positive magnetization direction and the DC-signal of negative magnetization direction have almost the same area, and the magnetization direction of the DC-signal adjacent to the inner side in a disk radius direction of the burst-signal area is opposite to the magnetization direction of the DC-signal adjacent to the outer side in the disk radius direction of the burst-signal area, and the sum of the magnetizations of the DC-signal areas corresponding to a width of the return pole of the single magnetic pole type write element is approximately 0, when a sum of magnetization of DC-signal areas is reversed in a disk radius direction at a period of half of the width of the return pole.