Hard disk drive

• US 20020003949A1
• Filed: 03/13/2001
• Published: 01/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamashita, Keitaro, Mamiya, Toshio, Mitani, Akira, Yada, Hiroaki
• Application Number:
  US09/805,404
• Publication Number:
  US 20020003949A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/125
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/20 Disc-shaped record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2516 Hard disks
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/59633 Servo formatting G11B5/59627, G11B5/59677, G11B5/59683, G11B5/59688 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/59644 Acquisition or selection of servo format from a system reference after track seek G11B5/5556
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8085 with processing of the sound signal

Abstract

The present invention relates to a hard disk drive, and particularly applies to a removable hard disk drive mountable in portable devices so that much of information personally owned can be recorded and carried. The hard disk drive of the present invention is held in video devices, records and reproduces video data and other data at a data transfer rate of 30 Mbps or more, and provides a capacity of 2 GB or more for a hard disk 1.8 inches or less in diameter by so-called sample servo.

Claims

1. A hard disk drive which is held in a desired video device, records video data outputted from said video device and data related to the video data under control of said video device, and reproduces and outputs said recorded video data and the data related to said video data, wherein:

based on servo areas formed at a predetermined angular interval on an information recording surface of a hard disk, video data and data related to said video data are recorded in areas between said servo areas;

said hard disk is 1.8 inches or less in diameter;

said video data and the data related to said video data are inputted and outputted from and to the video device at a data transfer rate of at least 30 Mbps; and

said hard disk has a capacity to record 2 GB or more of said video data and the data related to said video data.

2. A hard disk drive as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hard disk is held so as to be detachable.

3. A hard disk drive as claimed in claim 1, wherein said hard disk is held in said video device so as to be detachable.

4. A hard disk drive as claimed in claim 2, wherein said hard disk is held in said video device so as to be detachable.

5. A hard disk drive as claimed in claim 1, wherein the outside shape of said hard disk drive conforms to the type 3 format of PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) to provide an interface with said video device.

6. A hard disk drive as claimed in claim 2, wherein the outside shape of said hard disk drive conforms to the type 3 format of PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association) to provide an interface with said video device.

7. A hard disk drive as claimed in claim 1, wherein said video data has the MPEG 2 (Moving Picture Experts Group 2) format.

8. A hard disk drive as claimed in claim 2, wherein said video data has the MPEG 2 (Moving Picture Experts Group 2) format.