Controller for information recording and reproducing device and control method for the information recording and reproducing device

• US 6,965,487 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2002
• Issued: 11/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan Limited (Western Digital Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Japan Limited (Western Digital Corporation)
• Inventors: Hanada, Kazuyoshi, Beppu, Osamu
• Primary Examiner(s): Hudspeth, David
• Assistant Examiner(s): WONG, KIN C
• Application Number:
  US10/245,385
• Publication Number:
  US 20030197967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 360/69, 360/75, 360/99.08, 369/53.18, 340/3.42, 340/686.1, 701/51, 701/1, 701/200, 701/29, 701/33, 711/112, 380/200, 348/148
• US Class Current: 360/69
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/04 Arrangements for preventing, inhibiting, or warning against double recording on the same blank or against other recording or reproducing malfunctions

Abstract

A control device for preventing abrasion inside bearings in an information recording and reproducing device mounted on an automobile and preventing degradation in rotational accuracy, the information recording and reproducing device including disk media holding information, heads for recording or reproducing information from the disk media, a carriage for turning to position the heads on surfaces of the disk, a bearing part permitting the carriage to turn, a spindle motor for rotatingly driving the disk media, and a bearing part of the spindle motor, the control device comprising a detecting unit for detecting a vehicle operating manner, which is carried out before vehicular vibrations are caused, and a control unit for starting rotation and/or starting swings the bearing part of the spindle motor and/or the bearing part of the carriage on the basis of a signal from the detecting unit.

Claims

1. A control device for an on-board information recording and reproducing device including disk media holding information, a head for recording or reproducing information from the disk media, a carriage turning to position the head on a surface of the disk media, a bearing part permitting the carriage to turn, a spindle motor for rotatingly driving the disk media, and a bearing part of the spindle motor, the control device comprising:

a controller which starts one of rotation of the bearing part of the spindle motor and swings of the bearing part of the carriage before vehicular vibrations are caused.

2. The control device for an on-board information recording and reproducing device according to claim 1, further comprising:

detecting means which detects a vehicle operating manner, which is carried out before vehicular vibrations are caused; and

wherein the vehicle operating manner is one of insertion of a door key, insertion of a starting key, occupation of a seat, opening or closing of a door, and operation of a seat belt.

3. The control device for an on-board information recording and reproducing device according to claim 1, further comprising a solar cell mounted on the vehicle to serve as a power source for starting rotation of the bearing parts.

4. A control device for an on-board information recording and reproducing device comprising disk media holding information, a head for recording or reproducing information from the disk media, a carriage turning to position the head on a surface of the disk media, a bearing part permitting the carriage to turn, a spindle motor for rotatingly driving the disk media, and a bearing part of the spindle motor, the control device comprising:

an acceleration sensor provided on a vehicle or the information recording and reproducing device;

detecting means which detects whether an acceleration from the acceleration sensor has exceeded a predetermined value; and

control means which starts rotation of the bearing part of the spindle motor on the basis of a signal from the detecting means which indicates that the acceleration sensor has exceeded a predetermined value.

5. The control device for an on-board information recording and reproducing device according to claim 4, wherein the acceleration sensor is mounted on a door adjacent to a driver'"'"'s seat.

6. A control device for an on-board information recording and reproducing device comprising disk media holding information, a head for recording or reproducing information from the disk media, a carriage turning to position the head on a surface of the disk media, a bearing part permitting the carriage to turn, a spindle motor for rotatingly driving the disk media, and a bearing part of the spindle motor, the control device comprising:

a velocity sensor existing in a vehicle;

detecting means which detects output from the velocity sensor; and

control means which continue to rotate the bearing part of the spindle motor during detection of said output.

7. A control method for an on-board information recording and reproducing device including disk media holding information, a head for recording or reproducing information from the disk media, a carriage turning to position the head on a surface of the disk media, a bearing part permitting the carriage to turn, a spindle motor for rotatingly driving the disk media, and a bearing part of the spindle motor, the method comprising the steps of:

starting one of rotation of the bearing part of the spindle motor and swings of the bearing part of the carriage before vehicular vibrations are caused.

8. A control method for an on-board information recording and reproducing device including disk media holding information, a head for recording or reproducing information from the disk media, a carriage turning to position the head on a surface of the disk media, a bearing part permitting the carriage to turn, a spindle motor for rotatingly driving the disk media, and a bearing part of the spindle motor, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting, by means of an acceleration sensor provided on a vehicle or the information recording and reproducing device, whether acceleration has exceeded a predetermined value; and

starting rotation of the bearing part of the spindle motor on the basis of the detection.

9. A control method for an on-board information recording and reproducing device including disk media holding information, a head for recording or reproducing information from the disk media, a carriage turning to position the head on a surface of the disk media, a bearing part permitting the carriage to turn, a spindle motor for rotatingly driving the disk media, and a bearing part of the spindle motor, the method comprising the steps of:

detecting an output from a velocity sensor; and

continuing to rotate the bearing part of the spindle motor during detection of said output.