# US 2012/0075742 A1 · Magnetic disk device, electronic apparatus and, head control method

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- Number: US 2012/0075742 A1
- Document ID: US20120075742A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 13/051,176
- Filed: 2011-03-18
- Published: 2012-03-29
- Earliest claimed: 2010-09-28
- Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Inventors: Shinji Takakura; Shigen Yasunaka; Yoshiyuki Ishihara
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20120075742A1

## CPC

- G11B 5/5547: {"Seek" control and circuits therefor (G11B5/5556 takes precedence)}
- G11B: INFORMATION STORAGE BASED ON RELATIVE MOVEMENT BETWEEN RECORD CARRIER AND TRANSDUCER (recording measured values in a way that does not require playback through a transducer G01D9/00; recording or playback apparatus using mechanically marked tape, e.g. punched paper tape, or using unit records, e.g. punched or magnetically marked cards G06K; transferring data from one type of record carrier to another G06K1/18; circuits for coupling output of reproducer to radio receiver H04B1/20; gramophone pick-ups or like acoustic electromechanical transducers or circuits therefor H04R)

## Abstract

A magnetic disk device includes a head, a coil motor, a drive circuit, a voltage detector, a head position calculation unit, a velocity calculation unit, a counter electromotive voltage calculation unit, a coil resistance estimation unit, and a control unit. The head position calculation unit calculates a position of the head for each sampling cycle on the basis of servo information. The velocity calculation unit calculates a velocity of the head for each sampling cycle. The counter electromotive voltage calculation unit calculates a counter electromotive voltage of the coil for each sampling cycle. The coil resistance estimation unit successively estimates a coil resistance value of the coil. The control unit calculates a drive instruction for controlling the velocity and outputs the drive instruction to the drive circuit. In addition, the counter electromotive voltage calculation unit subtracts a voltage drop from the inter-terminal voltage to calculate the counter electromotive voltage.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A magnetic disk device comprising:
a head to perform read and write of information over an information storage medium having servo information;
a coil motor to move the head;
a drive circuit to drive the coil motor;
a voltage detector to detect an inter-terminal voltage of a coil included in the coil motor;
a head position calculation unit to calculate a position of the head for each sampling cycle on the basis of the servo information;
a velocity calculation unit to calculate a velocity of the head at the position for each sampling cycle;
a counter electromotive voltage calculation unit to calculate a counter electromotive voltage of the coil for each sampling cycle;
a coil resistance estimation unit to successively estimate a coil resistance value of the coil on the basis of the velocity and the counter electromotive voltage; and
a control unit to calculate a drive instruction for controlling the velocity for each sampling cycle on the basis of the counter electromotive voltage and to output the drive instruction to the drive circuit,
wherein
the counter electromotive voltage calculation unit subtracts a voltage drop to be caused by the coil resistance estimate value to be estimated by the coil resistance estimation unit from the inter-terminal voltage to calculate the counter electromotive voltage.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The device according to claim 1, wherein
the coil resistance estimation unit further includes:
a velocity error calculation unit for subtracting the velocity from the counter electromotive voltage to calculate a head velocity error;
a correction value calculation unit for dividing the head velocity error by the drive instruction to successively calculate a correction value of the coil resistance value; and
a coil resistance correction unit which multiplies the correction value by the predetermined coil resistance value by using a predetermined coil resistance value as an initial value to successively calculate the coil resistance estimate value.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The device according to claim 2,
wherein
the coil resistance correction unit sets a sample number k for each sampling cycle to a natural number of 1 or more to calculate a first estimate value by using the following equation (1) when k is 1,
R1×R0+α1 Equation (1)
(R1 denoting the first coil resistance estimate value, R0 denoting a predetermined coil resistance value, a denoting a first correction value); and
wherein
the coil resistance correction unit successively calculates a kth estimate value by using the following equation (2) when k is more than 1,
Rk=Rk-1+αk Equation (2)
(Rk denoting the kth coil resistance estimate value, Rk-1 denoting a (k−1)th coil resistance estimate value, αk denoting a kth correction value.)

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The device according to claim 2, wherein
the correction value calculation unit further includes a filter, wherein a signal obtained by dividing the head velocity error signal by the drive instruction is subjected to filter processing by the filter, whereby the correction value is calculated.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The magnetic disk device according to claim 1, wherein
the coil resistance estimation unit successively estimates the coil resistance after the velocity control of the head starts in accordance with the drive instruction calculated by the control unit.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The device according to claim 1, wherein
when the head has not yet obtained the servo information, the counter electromotive voltage calculation unit subtracts a voltage drop from the inter-terminal voltage, the voltage drop being caused by the coil resistance estimate value to be estimated finally by the coil resistance estimation unit.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

An electronic apparatus comprising the magnetic disk device according to claim 1.

### Claim 8

A head control method for a magnetic disk device, comprising:
calculating a position of a head for each sampling cycle on the basis of servo information of an information storage medium;
calculating a velocity of the head at the position for each sampling cycle;
subtracting a coil resistance value of a coil from an inter-terminal voltage to calculate a counter electromotive voltage of the coil for each sampling cycle;
successively estimating the coil resistance value on the basis of the velocity and the counter electromotive voltage; and
calculating a drive instruction to control the velocity for each sampling cycle on the basis of the counter electromotive voltage,
wherein
the magnetic disk device includes:
the head to perform read and write of information over the information storage medium having the servo information;
a coil motor including the coil to move the head;
a drive circuit to drive the coil motor; and
a voltage detector to detect the inter-terminal voltage of the coil.