• DocumentCode
    2823396
  • Title

    Active damping in HDD actuator

  • Author

    Fu-Ying Huang ; Semba, T. ; Imaino, W. ; Lee, F.

  • Author_Institution
    IBM Almaden Res. Center, San Jose, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2000
  • fDate
    6-8 Nov. 2000
  • Abstract
    A non-traditional mechanical modification technique to take care of the major servo bandwidth limited resonance mode (butterfly mode) is developed, analyzed, and validated. With an additional sensor on the actuator and an external feedback loop, the butterfly mode can be damped and stiffened such that the gain of the head mechanical transfer function is close to 1/s/sup 2/. Servo improvement is also studied comparing to notch filter approach. It shows that the butterfly mode notch filter can be removed, and the phase margin can be improved by 7 degrees.
  • Keywords
    actuators; damping; disc drives; feedback; hard discs; notch filters; servomotors; transfer functions; HDD actuator; active damping; butterfly mode; feedback loop; gain; magnetic recording head; mechanical transfer function; notch filter; resonance mode; servo bandwidth; Actuators; Bandwidth; Capacitive sensors; Damping; Feedback; Filters; Mechanical sensors; Resonance; Servomechanisms; Transfer functions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Asia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference, 2000. APMRC 2000
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-6254-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APMRC.2000.898912
  • Filename
    898912