As the fluid dynamic bearing spindles are to be actively adopted to various small form factor mobile applications, mechanical specifications for the motors have been aggressively changed to pursue the fierce information technology sector market trend. One of the major technological challenges for the spindles to be successfully employed in the applications is the reduction of power consumption since the most of the mobile applications operate with a limited power source at relatively lower voltage. Recognizing implication of the power consumption that of course affects stiffness of the spindle, few of options for mechanical designers are available but either lowering rotational speed or adopting thinner lubricant. In the present work, a novel design solution for alleviating side effect of the lower stiffness spindle is introduced and verified.
Performance of experimental dynamic system identification depends on sensor placement especially when the number of sensor locations is relatively small and measurement noise is significant. We propose a method to select robust measurements based on the estimation error in modal analysis, which is one of the most popular system identification methods for dynamic systems, by defining a measure of the estimation. The measure is developed to deal with various types of sensors and with general damped systems. It is calculated from the eigenvector information obtained by finite element analysis or preliminary experiments and represents the weighted covariance of estimation error induced by measurement noise as well as the orthogonality of the projection matrix which is the corresponding submatrix of eigenvector-matrix by partially measured outputs. Effectiveness of the proposed measurement selection schemes is demonstrated by computer simulations and experiments.
In high-capacity disk drives with ever-growing track densitM the allowable level ofposition error signal (PES) is becoming smaller and smallez A substantial portion of the PES is caused by disk vibration. This can be re(tuced by using a head gimbal assembly that does not confine the movement of slider roll center to the vertical direction to disks, but allows movement to the radial direction of disks with respect to disk vibration.
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