HEAD POSITION CONTROL DEVICE, MAGNETIC DISK DEVICE, AND HEAD POSITION CONTROL METHOD

• US 20090323215A1
• Filed: 02/02/2009
• Published: 12/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: UEDA, Katsuki
• Application Number:
  US12/364,323
• Publication Number:
  US 20090323215A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 360/75
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/5565 system adaptation for compensation of variations of physical parameters, e.g. temperature

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a head position control device includes a positioning controller, a sensor, and a storage module. The positioning controller outputs, to a head moving mechanism that moves a head in the radial direction of a magnetic disk, a control signal indicating a position to which the head is to be moved. The sensor detects the environmental temperature around the magnetic disk. The storage module stores expected temperatures each associated with a filter coefficient of a filter that attenuates specific frequency components of the control signal. The positioning controller creates a filter based on filter coefficients associated with two values of the expected temperatures close to the environmental temperature, and applies the filter to the control signal.

Claims

1. A head position control device comprising:

a positioning controller configured to output a control signal indicative of a position to which the head is to be moved to a head moving module configured to move a head for scanning a magnetic disk in a radial direction of the magnetic disk;

a sensor configured to detect an environmental temperature around the magnetic disk; and

a storage module configured to store predetermined temperatures at intervals of predetermined degrees, associated with filter coefficients of a filter configured to attenuate specific frequency components of a control signal corresponding to the predetermined temperatures respectively, wherein

the positioning controller is configured to generate the filter using filter coefficients associated with two predetermined temperatures close to the environmental temperature, and to apply the filter to the control signal, based on a rate of differences between the environmental temperature detected by the sensor and the two predetermined temperatures.

2. The head position control device of claim 1, wherein the positioning controller is configured to generate a filter using a filter coefficient associated with the highest predetermined temperature when the environmental temperature detected by the sensor is above the highest predetermined temperature stored in the storage module.

3. The head position control device of claim 1, wherein the positioning controller is configured to generate a filter using a filter coefficient associated with the lowest predetermined temperature when the environmental temperature detected by the sensor is below the lowest predetermined temperatures stored in the storage module.

4. The head position control device of claim 1, wherein the storage module is configured to store the filter coefficient of the filter, resonance characteristics of the head moving module, and resonance and a center frequency of the specific frequency component being optimized, associated with a corresponding predetermined temperature.

5. A magnetic disk device comprising:

a head configured to read data from and write data to a magnetic disk;

a head moving module configured to move the head in a radial direction of the magnetic disk;

a positioning controller configured to output a control signal to the head moving module in order to position the head at a target location on the magnetic disk;

a sensor configured to detect environmental temperature around the magnetic disk; and

a storage module configured to store predetermined temperatures at intervals of predetermined degrees associated with filter coefficients of a filter configured to attenuate specific frequency components of a control signal corresponding to the predetermined temperatures respectively, wherein

the positioning controller is configured to generate the filter using filter coefficients associated with two predetermined temperatures close to the environmental temperature, and to apply the filter to the control signal, based on a rate of differences between the environmental temperature detected by the sensor and the two predetermined temperatures.

6. The magnetic disk device of claim 5, wherein the positioning controller is configured to generate a filter using a filter coefficient associated with the highest predetermined temperature when the environmental temperature detected by the sensor is above the highest predetermined temperatures stored in the storage module.

7. The magnetic disk device of claim 5, wherein the positioning controller is configured to generate a filter using a filter coefficient associated with the lowest predetermined temperature when the environmental temperature detected by the sensor is below the lowest predetermined temperatures stored in the storage module.

8. The magnetic disk device of claim 5, wherein the storage module is configured to store the filter coefficient of the filter, resonance characteristics of the head moving module, and resonance and a center frequency of the specific frequency component being optimized, associated with a corresponding predetermined temperature.

9. A head position control method applied to a head position control device configured to output a control signal indicating a position to which the head is to be moved to a head moving mechanism that moves a head to scan a magnetic disk in a radial direction of the magnetic disk, the head position control device comprising a storage module configured to store predetermined temperatures at intervals of predetermined degrees, associated with filter coefficients of a filter configured to attenuate specific frequency components of a control signal corresponding to the predetermined temperatures, the method comprising:

detecting environmental temperature around the magnetic disk; and

generating a filter using filter coefficients associated with two predetermined temperatures close to the environmental temperature in order to apply the filter to the control signal, based on a rate of differences between the environmental temperature detected at the detecting and the two predetermined temperatures.