| US 7,525,755 B2 | ||
| Magnetic recording medium and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus | ||
| Makoto Asakura, Tokyo (Japan); and Hideo Sado, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Filed on May 18, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/750,848. | ||
| Application 11/750848 is a division of application No. 11/329599, filed on Jan. 11, 2006, granted, now 7,262,932. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 2005-005552 (JP), filed on Jan. 12, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0236822 A1, Oct. 11, 2007 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G11B 5/596 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 360—77.08 | 7 Claims |

| 1. A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus comprising:
a reproducing unit that performs a reproducing process on a magnetic recording medium that includes a servo area where servo
data used for detecting a position of a magnetic head on the magnetic recording medium is recorded, and a writable data area,
arranged side by side with the servo area in the track direction, on which user data is written by the magnetic head, the
servo area including a preamble area where a preamble recording pattern that represents data used for providing a clock synchronization
of the servo data is formed by a plurality of magnetic sections, and a burst area where data used for detecting a relative
position of the magnetic head with respect to a track center position of the servo data is recorded and on which a single
burst recording pattern which is a layout pattern that tilts to the preamble recording pattern with a predetermined tilt angle
is formed by a plurality of magnetic sections,
the reproducing unit including
a phase detection unit that detects a phase difference of a burst reproduced signal of the burst area from a reproduced signal
of the preamble area, based upon sample values at respective points in the preamble area, which are sampled by using a synchronous
clock determined by a reproduced signal processing of the preamble area and a plurality of predetermined coefficients, as
phase difference information corresponding to a plurality of phase differences, the phase detection unit including
a filter circuit to which the sample values at the respective points are inputted and which outputs output values obtained
by multiplying each of the inputted sample values by a plurality of different coefficients and adding resulting values; and
an integrator that integrates the output values output from the filter circuit for respective divided gate intervals into
which a burst gate interval corresponding to a reproducing process interval for the burst area is divided, and outputs resulting
values as the phase difference information,
wherein the filter circuit calculates the output values by multiplying the sample value by one of the coefficients in a manner
so as to sequentially cycle the coefficients each time the sample value at each of the points is inputted and outputs the
calculated output values; and
a position detection unit that detects position deviation information indicating a relative distance of the magnetic head
from the track center position based upon the phase difference information.
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