Stepped time based servo pattern and head
First Claim
1. Magnetic tape comprising a substrate and a magnetic layer, the magnetic tape having at least one servo track that includes servo data and having a servo pattern comprising write gaps in which slanted, non-perpendicular to the tape motion portions of the write gaps are synthesized by a series of short, staggered, normal to the tape motion segments.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to apparatuses and methods used in manufacturing magnetic tape. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of writing a servo pattern on magnetic tape so as to minimize errors in the servo pattern, the heads used to write such servo data, and the magnetic tape manufactured with such heads. Errors in the servo pattern may be minimized by synthesizing the slanted transitions in a time based servo pattern using servo write gaps that are perpendicular to the tape motion. In so minimizing errors, distortion in the reading and/or writing of the data tracks can be prevented.
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- 1. Magnetic tape comprising a substrate and a magnetic layer, the magnetic tape having at least one servo track that includes servo data and having a servo pattern comprising write gaps in which slanted, non-perpendicular to the tape motion portions of the write gaps are synthesized by a series of short, staggered, normal to the tape motion segments.
- 5. Magnetic tape comprising a substrate and a magnetic layer, the magnetic tape having at least one servo track that includes servo data, the servo data comprising a servo pattern simulating a slanted magnetic transition in each of one or more of the at least one servo track comprising non-contiguous write gap segments in a staggered pattern.
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8. Magnetic tape comprising a substrate and a magnetic layer, the magnetic tape having at least one timing-based servo track that includes servo data, the servo data comprising a magnetic transition of a timing-based servo pattern in each of one or more of the at least one timing-based servo track comprising a series of short areas of magnetic material in a staggered pattern.
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9. An apparatus for use in writing servo data on a magnetic tape, comprising:
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a servowriting head; a magnetic film on the head; and one or more write gaps created in the magnetic film, wherein slanted, non-perpendicular to the tape motion portions of said write gaps are synthesized by a series of short, staggered, normal to the tape motion segments and segments perpendicular to the normal to the tape motion segments, wherein the segments perpendicular to the normal to the tape motion segments are much smaller than the width of the write gaps. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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- 12. A method of writing servo data on a servo track of a magnetic tape, comprising writing said data with write gaps, wherein slanted, non-perpendicular to the tape motion portions of said write gaps are synthesized by a series of short, staggered, normal to the tape motion.
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