Magnetic head positioning device and method

摘要

A servo track recorded on a magnetic tape is traced by a pair of servo track reproduce heads. The output of the pair of servo track reproduce heads are subjected to a subtracting process by a subtractor. A pulse signal is provided to a stepping motor according to the output of the subtractor. The stepping motor provides a rotation in a positive direction or a negative direction according to the applied pulse. The rotation of the stepping motor is translated to a magnetic head via a moving mechanism whereby the position of the magnetic head is adjusted along the width direction of the magnetic tape to trace properly the data track on the magnetic tape. A closed-loop control system is implemented for the magnetic head to realize tracking control of high precision.