High density timing based servo format for use with tilted transducer arrays

RG Biskeborn, MA Lantz - US Patent 9,019,653, 2015 - Google Patents
A product, according to one embodiment, includes a magnetic recording tape having
opposite ends, a longitudinal axis of the magnetic recording tape being defined between the …

Magnetic head and system having offset arrays

RG Biskeborn, P Herget, CS Lo - US Patent 9,208,809, 2015 - Google Patents
(56) References Cited 2006/O126207 A1 6/2006 Johnson et al. 2006, O126212 A1 6/2006
Anderson et al. US PATENT DOCUMENTS 2006/0232884 A1 10, 2006 Biskeborn …

Quasi-statically oriented, bi-directional tape recording head

RG Biskeborn, CS Lo - US Patent 9,449,628, 2016 - Google Patents
In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a mag netic head. The magnetic head
has a first array of data transducers, a second array of data transducers spaced from the first …

Quasi-statically tilted magnetic tape head having backward compatibility

RG Biskeborn, CS Lo - US Patent 8,797,682, 2014 - Google Patents
In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a magnetic head. The magnetic head
has a first array of data transducers; a second array of data transducers spaced from the first …

Systems and methods for correcting magnetic tape dimensional instability

NX Bui, ER Childers, ER Christensen… - US Patent …, 2012 - Google Patents
Magnetic tape devices encounter read and/or write errors when the tape is not being passed
across the head with the proper tension and/or skew angle. According to one embodiment, a …

Determining a skew error signal (SES) offset used to determine an SES to adjust heads in a drive unit

NX Bui, A Pantazi, T Taketomi, K Tsuruta - US Patent 8,780,486, 2014 - Google Patents
Provided are a computer program product, System, and method for determining a skew error
signal (SES) offset used to determine an SES to adjust heads in a drive unit. A first servo …

Correcting errors in longitudinal position (LPOS) words

WJ Kabelac, BM Trager, S Winograd - US Patent 8,615,689, 2013 - Google Patents
The present invention relates to tape storage systems, and more particularly relates to an
addition of error correcting capability to longitudinal position (LPOS) words encoded in the …

Servo control

G Cherubini, J Jelitto, MA Lantz - US Patent 8,976,482, 2015 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A tape head includes a set of one or more segments, wherein each
segment of the set is individually movable with respect to a frame; each segment of the set …

Backward compatible head for quasi-static tilted reading and/or recording

RG Biskeborn, CS Lo - US Patent 9,007,712, 2015 - Google Patents
006 read and/or write while the arrays are positioned at different angles relative to a
magnetic medium, thereby enabling read ing and/or writing in more than one data storage …

Quasi-statically tilted head having offset reader/writer transducer pairs

RG Biskeborn, CS Lo - US Patent 9,218,838, 2015 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND The present invention relates to data storage systems, and more
particularly, this invention relates to modules having arrays of offset reader/writer transducer …