Title:
TAPE HEAD AND TAPE DRIVE SYSTEM (PROGRESSIVE TRACK WIDTH HEAD AND METHOD)
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2008097810
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
To compensate for tape lateral expansion and contraction about a head having readers with a track width that changes.
A tape head 300 according to one embodiment includes an array of readers, each of the readers having a track width TW, wherein the track width of an inner reader 308 of the array is greater than the track width of an outer reader 306 relative thereto. A tape head, according to another embodiment, includes an array of readers, with each of the readers having a track width, wherein the track width of at least some of the readers progressively decrease, in a direction along the array from a middle of the array towards an end of the array.
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Inventors:
BISKEBORN ROBERT GLENN
KARP JAMES MITCHELL
KARP JAMES MITCHELL
Application Number:
JP2007263959A
Publication Date:
April 24, 2008
Filing Date:
October 10, 2007
Export Citation:
Assignee:
IBM (US)
International Classes:
G11B5/33; G11B5/29; G11B5/31
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Foreign References:
| US5488525A | 1996-01-30 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Takeshi Ueno
Tasaichi Tanae
Yoshihiro City
Hiroshi Sakaguchi
Tasaichi Tanae
Yoshihiro City
Hiroshi Sakaguchi