Magnetic disk storage apparatus

Abstract

Currents of sine waveforms can be fed through coils by a relatively small-sized circuit, and thereby, highly dense magnetic storage can be realized with less rotation variations and a driving control circuit of a motor rotating at a low noise level can be provided. A coil of one phase of a three-phase brushless motor is driven with full amplitude at which an applied voltage becomes equal to a source voltage, and a coil of one of other phases is driven with gradually changing voltages so that a current of sine waveform is delivered, and a coil of the remaining phase is driven by feedback control so that a total current flowing through all coils becomes a predetermined current value.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] The present invention relates to technology for driving control of a brushless motor, and more particularly to technology effectively applied to the formation of rotation drive current waveforms of the motor. The present invention relates to technology effectively applied to a driving control apparatus of a spindle motor for rotationally driving disk type storage media as in, e.g., a hard disk drive. [0002] A hard disk drive is demanded to have the ability to read and write information from and to magnetic disk as fast as possible, that is, the ability to make access at high speed. To achieve this, it is important to speed up disk rotation. Conventionally, a brushless DC multi-phase motor called a spindle motor has been generally used to rotate magnetic disk in a hard disk drive. The magnetic disk is fast rotated by the spindle motor and a magnetic head for read and writing is brought near to the surface of the rotating magnetic disk to write or re...

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Benefits of technology

"The present invention provides a magnetic disk storage apparatus that can feed currents of sine waveforms through coils by a relatively small-sized circuit, and enable highly dense magnetic storage with less rotation variations and a spindle motor rotating at a low noise level. The apparatus includes a first motor for rotating magnetic disk, a magnetic head for reading information from recording tracks on the magnetic disk, and a first motor driving control circuit for controlling drive currents of the first motor. The first motor driving control circuit produces driving signals with gradually changing voltages to deliver a current of sine waveform through one of the motor coils. The apparatus can smoothly change output currents in response to changes in the load on the motor, and can achieve high-density magnetic storage with less rotation variations and a spindle motor rotating at a low noise level."

Problems solved by technology

As a result, the amount of hardware increases, and even if the load on the motor changes, since the duty of basic clock to form coil drive waveforms remains constant, phase switching of output currents cannot be smoothly performed in response to an increase or decrease in the output currents.

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