Magnetic disk apparatus

• US 8,953,273 B1
• Filed: 09/10/2014
• Issued: 02/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Funayama, Tomomi
• Primary Examiner(s): HUBER, PAUL W
• Application Number:
  US14/482,085
• Time in Patent Office: 153 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 360/68
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2005/0024 Microwave assisted recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/012 Recording on, or reproducing or erasing from, magnetic disks G11B17/00, G11B19/00 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/1278 specially adapted for magnetisations perpendicular to the surface of the record carrier

Abstract

According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk apparatus includes a main magnetic pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to a recording medium, a recording coil configured to magnetize the main magnetic pole, a spin-torque oscillator adjacent to the main magnetic pole, and configured to generate a high frequency magnetic field, a recording current control circuit configured to supply a recording current to the recording coil, a driving current control circuit configured to supply a fixed driving current to the spin-torque oscillator, and an overshoot control circuit configured to control overshoot current of the recording current in proportion to the magnitude of the driving current after the recording current has reversed.

Claims

1. A magnetic disk apparatus comprising:

a main magnetic pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to a recording layer of a recording medium;

a recording coil configured to magnetize the main magnetic pole;

a spin-torque oscillator, configured to generate a high frequency magnetic field, adjacent to the main magnetic pole and close to a medium-facing surface opposite the recording medium;

a recording current control circuit configured to supply a recording current to the recording coil;

a driving current control circuit configured to supply a fixed driving current to the spin-torque oscillator; and

an overshoot control circuit configured to control, in proportion to a magnitude of the driving current, overshoot current of the recording current occurring after the recording current has reversed.

2. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 1, which further comprises:

a first wire configured to connect the recording coil and the recording current control circuit; and

a second wire configured to connect the spin-torque oscillator and the driving current control circuit,

the driving current supplied to the spin torque oscillator including a portion higher than the absolute value of the fixed driving current because of level fluctuation caused by crosstalk from the first wire to the second wire at a moment of applying the recording current.

3. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 2, wherein the overshoot control circuit is configured to control the overshoot current of the recording current in such a manner that a level fluctuation of the driving current caused by the crosstalk is within ±

30% of the fixed driving current.

4. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 1, wherein the recording current control circuit comprises the overshoot control circuit configured to control in proportion to the magnitude of the driving current the overshoot current occurring after the recording current has reversed to a positive current;

and an undershoot control circuit configured to control, in proportion to the magnitude of the driving current, undershoot current occurring after the recording current has reversed to a negative current.

5. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 4, wherein the undershoot control circuit is configured to set the undershoot current greater than the overshoot current.

6. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 5, wherein the overshoot control circuit comprises a first sustaining period control circuit configured to control a sustaining period of the overshoot current, and the undershoot control circuit comprises a second sustaining period control circuit configured to set sustaining period of the undershoot current shorter than the sustaining period of the overshoot current.

7. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 4, wherein the overshoot control circuit comprises a first sustaining period control circuit configured to control a sustaining period of the overshoot current, and the undershoot control circuit comprises a second sustaining period control circuit configured to set a sustaining period of the undershoot current shorter than the sustaining period of the overshoot current.

8. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 2, wherein the recording current control circuit comprises:

the overshoot control circuit configured to control in proportion to the magnitude of the driving current the overshoot current occurring after the recording current has reversed to a positive current; and

an undershoot control circuit configured to control, in proportion to the magnitude of the driving current, undershoot current occurring after the recording current has reversed to a negative current.

9. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 8, wherein the undershoot control circuit is configured to set the undershoot current greater than the overshoot current.

10. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 9, wherein the overshoot control circuit comprises a first sustaining period control circuit configured to control a sustaining period of the overshoot current, and the undershoot control circuit comprises a second sustaining period control circuit configured to set a sustaining period of the undershoot current shorter than the sustaining period of the overshoot current.

11. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 3, wherein the recording current control circuit comprises:

the overshoot control circuit configured to control in proportion to a magnitude of the driving current the overshoot occurring after the recording current has reversed to a positive current; and

an undershoot control circuit configured to control, in proportion to the magnitude of the driving current, undershoot current occurring after the recording current has reversed to a negative current.

12. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 11, wherein the undershoot control circuit is configured to set the undershoot current greater than the overshoot current.

13. The magnetic disk apparatus of claim 12, wherein the overshoot control circuit comprises a first sustaining period control circuit configured to control a sustaining period of the overshoot current, and the undershoot control circuit comprises a second sustaining period control circuit configured to set a sustaining period of the undershoot current shorter than the sustaining period of the overshoot current.