Abstract:
A magnetic head assembly (32) comprising first and second core assemblies (37, 39) of different types and properties. The first core assembly (37) is of a leading erase type for the perpendicular magnetic recording system, while the second one (39) is of a tunnel erase type for the longitudinal magnetic recording system. These core assemblies (37, 39) are arranged on either side of a slider groove (36). When used with the dopble-sided recording system, they are both located on one side of the alider groove.
Abstract:
An electromagnetic transducer assembly for used in a helical-scan type video tape recorder includes a pair of magnetic heads secured to a nonmagnetic base and successively arranged in spaced relationship with each other in the direction of transport of a magnetic medium, each of the heads comprising a generally U-shaped core having a pair of limb portions and a web portion therebetween, a generally I-shaped core connected to the limb portions to form a closed magnetic circuit having a magnetic gap therein, and a coil wound on the closed magnetic circuit, the I-shaped cores of the heads respectively having confronting edges extending unparallel to the magnetic gaps.
Abstract:
A magnetic head is provided having a core of a soft-magnetic material with a comparatively low saturation magnetization and layers of a soft-magnetic material having a higher saturation magnetization than the material of the core on the gap-bounding faces. In order to avoid the detrimental effects of the non-magnetic transition zones between the material of the core and the layers of soft-magnetic material, which transition zones as it were form subsidiary gaps, the layers of soft-magnetic material on the gap-bounding faces have different thicknesses.
Abstract:
Apparatus for recording and reproducing data on a magnetic recording medium (27) having a plurality of recording tracks (29) comprises a magnetic head (32) and a mechanism which selectively positions the head (32) with respect to the tracks (29) of the magnetic medium (27). The head has at least two gaps which are of different lengths and which can be selected one at a time for reading and/or recording data on the magnetic recording medium (27). A control circuit controls the positioning mechanism to move the head with respect to the magnetic recording medium by a distance which depends on the gap selected. The packing density of tracks on the recording medium determines which gap is selected for use.
Abstract:
In a thin film magnetic head (10) including a substrate (1) comprising a non-magnetic material, magnetic cores (2, 3) comprising magnetic thin films formed on the substrate so as to form a ring-shaped magnetic circuit, a non-magnetic gap material (5) located at a part of the magnetic cores so as to form a head gap, and windings (7) wound around the magnetic cores so as to have linkage with the magnetic circuit, a non-magnetic pattern material (8) for defining the value of the gap depth (Gd) is provided on at least a gap depth side portion within a region surrounded by the magnetic circuit of the magnetic cores on the substrate.
Abstract:
In a magnetic head having a pair of core halves each combined through a magnetic gap, each of the core halves comprising a core base having slanted side surfaces on the side opposing to the magnetic gap and a magnetic thin layer formed on the surfaces of the core base on the side opposing to the magnetic gap with magnetic material of high saturation magnetic flux density, the minimum value of sum of products of vertical cross sectional areas of the respective magnetic paths of each of the core halves except for the path of the magnetic gap and the respective saturation magnetic flux densities of the respective parts is greater than the product of the area of the magnetic gap and the saturation magnetic flux density of the magnetic thin layer.
Abstract:
A digital tape drive wherein tape is written, and a read-after-write operation is immediately performed to check the integrity of the write operation, for either direction (11, 12) of tape movement. The tape (10) contains a plurality of parallel data tracks. Two read/write head modules (14, 15) span the entire tape. The read (R) and write (W) gaps of each module are alternately spaced across the width of the tape, such that the write gaps of one module are aligned with the read gaps of the other module. When one module is selected for writing, as a function of the direction of tape movement, the other module is selected to read-after-write check the first module's written data. One module (14) writes odd-track data during one direction (11) of tape movement, and reads even-track data during the opposite direction (12) of tape movement; as the other module (15) writes even-track data during said opposite movement direction (12), and reads odd-track data during said one movement direction (11). Common read and write electronic circuits are switched between the two modules, since each module is using only one of its read and write gap multiples at any given time.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a system comprising a magnetic tape (310) formatted by means of a write head (360), and an apparatus comprising a magnetic head unit (320) which is movable on a transverse direction (y) by means of an actuator. By means of the write head (360) the magnetic tape (310) has been provided with a pattern of servotracks ST101-ST127 which extend in a longitudinal direction (x). The odd-numbered servotracks contain a first servosignal and the even-numbered servotracks contain a second servosignal Sb which is phase opposition to the first servosignal. The servotracks ST103-ST113 and ST116-ST126 have a typical width W1 and form a group of two bands of N1 servotracks which are separated by a band of N2 servotracks ST114, ST115 having a typical width W2. The magnetic tape (310) is adapted to cooperate with an apparatus comprising eight magnetic write heads (H31-H38). The actuator is controlled in response to the servosignals read by the heads. The center-to-center distance (p) between the magnetic write heads (H31-H38) is equal to four times the typical width W1 and, moreover, it holds that: N2 = 2, 4, 6 etc. and W2=(k+1/2)W1 or N2 = 1, 3, 5 etc. and W2=2k.W1, where k = 1, 2 etc.
Abstract:
A reduced power consumption flopppy disc drive (32) with closed loop servoed high density read/write gaps (66, 86) and low density read/write gaps (64, 84) for updating standard open loop formatted media includes a servo format having timing decode transitions (Ta, Tb, Tc) and alignment transitions (A, B) and a method for field writing the servo format on blank diskettes in a disc drive. The disk drive further allows reduced power consumption by stopping rotation of the disc.
Abstract:
Magnetic head provided with a head face (21) having a longitudinal direction (L) in which a magnetic recording medium is movable relative to the magnetic head, and a transverse direction (W) oriented transversely to the longitudinal direction. The magnetic head also comprises a structure having integrated, juxtaposed head units (25a; 25b) extending substantially transversely to the longitudinal direction and the transverse direction and each being provided with at least a transducing gap (27a; 27b). To achieve a high channel density, a transducing gap of the one head unit and a transducing gap of the other head unit of every two adjacent head units are present in mutually different planes (P1; P2) oriented substantially to the longitudinal direction.