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A servo control system micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)-based motion control system (and method therefor), includes a motion generator having an inherent stiffness component.
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A method (and system) of predicting a thermal state of a transient thermal system, includes combining sensor outputs and thermal parameters to construct a consistent set of estimates of internal temperature of a transient thermal system.
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A servo control system micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)-based motion control system (and method therefor), includes a motion generator having an inherent stiffness component.
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A method for removing heat from a data center using liquid coolant cooled without vapor compression refrigeration on a liquid cooled information technology equipment rack. The method includes regulating liquid coolant flow to the data center through a range of liquid coolant flow values with a controller-apparatus based upon information technology equipment temperature threshold of the data center. A data center cooling system includes heat transfer equipment to cool a liquid coolant without vapor compression refrigeration, and the liquid coolant is used on a liquid cooled information technology equipment rack housed in the data center. The system includes a controller-apparatus to regulate the liquid coolant flow to the liquid cooled information technology equipment rack through a range of liquid coolant flow values based upon information technology equipment temperature thresholds.
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A servo control system micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)-based motion control system (and method therefor), includes a motion generator having an inherent stiffness component.
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A method for predicting and avoiding data errors by predicting disk drive read-write inhibit requirements in response to at least two parameters including a head position error and velocity with respect to the track centerline. A write or read inhibit signal is generated in response to selected combinations of these parameters to minimize soft read errors arising from track misregistration and to avoid hard errors arising from overwriting data recorded in an adjacent track. The read and write inhibit strategy is described as a pair of linguistic control rules suitable for implementation in a Fuzzy Logic Controller.
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A system for mounting a head/disk assembly (HDA), of the type including at least one information storage disk, a spindle on which said disk is rotatabl y mounted and a rotary actuator for positioning at least one head relative to the disk comprises a support structure and means (87, 83) for mounting the H DA on the support structure to permit a limited amount of substantially free rotation in reaction to movement of the actuator thereby to reduce vibration in the HDA. The HDA may be part of a hard disk enclosure (HDE) or an entire hard disk drive (HDD) mounted in a computer chassis.
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A system for mounting a hard disk enclosure (HDE), includes a casing pivotably mounted to minimize at least one of settle-out dynamics, external rotational vibration, and emitted vibration, the casing allowing the HDE to rotate substantially freely, wherein the center of gravity of the HDE is substantially the same as a pivot point of the casing. Further, a computer chassis includes a housing, at least one disk drive assembly for being housed by the housing, and a plurality of theta-mounts integrally built within the housing.
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A system for mounting a hard disk enclosure (HDE), includes a casing pivotably mounted to minimize at least one of settle-out dynamics, external rotational vibration, and emitted vibration, the casing allowing the HDE to rotate substantially freely, wherein the center of gravity of the HDE is substantially the same as a pivot point of the casing. Further, a computer chassis includes a housing, at least one disk drive assembly for being housed by the housing, and a plurality of theta-mounts integrally built within the housing.
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OPTIMUM ROTATIONAL MODE DECOUPLING SHOCK MOUNT CONFIGURATION FOR DASDS An apparatus and a method for decoupling external linear vibration from a device mounted in an enclosure, so as to reduce resulting rotational motion of the device. The apparatus comprises n vibration isolation mounts having characteristics and being positioned so that the center of stiffness and the center of damping coincide with the center of mass of the device. The invention may be applied to direct access storage devices having arbilrary mounting configurations where the geometry of the mounting configurations and/or the mass distribution of the head-disc assembly are not necessarily symmetrical. Alternatively, the damping and stiffness parameters may be isotropic in the plane of the device and the axes of the vibration isolation mounts may be disposed in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the device. The stiffness and damping constants may be equal for each mounting point and the mounting points may be located so as to be symmetric with respect to each other in the plane of the device. The center of stiffness and the center of mass may also be at the same point along an axis perpendicular to the plane of the device. A balancing mass may be applied to the device to change its center of mass to coincide with the center of stiffness. For a given mass and inertia distribution, isolation mountsare designed to be disposed in polygonally shaped configurations so as to satisfy critical equations, so that complete rigid body mode decoupling occurs. With an assumption that the mount stiffness and damping are to be identical for all mounts, the geometry of the locations arc simplified to have symmetries that result in regular polygons such as an isosceles triangle, a trapezoid, a square, a rectangle, etc. YO991-202