Apparatus for detecting clogging of head gap

Details Apparatus for detecting clogging of head gap Apparatus for detecting clogging of head gap

1984-04-05

1986-08-19

Richardson, Robert L.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General recording or reproducing

358335, 360 31, 360 61, 360 62, 360 64, 360 331, G11B 541, G11B 500

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046072977

ABSTRACT:
In an apparatus having a record mode for recording video or other information signals in successive parallel information tracks on a record tape by means of a plurality of rotary heads repeatedly scanning across said tape and having respective gaps with different azimuth angles, and in which the apparatus is changeable to a playback mode for causing each of said heads to provide a respective output when it is scanning an information track in which information signals have been previously recorded by a head with a gap having the same azimuth angle; clogging of one or more of the head gaps which would prevent further recording is detected, in the playback mode, by switching from one to another of the outputs of the heads during each period required for the scanning of the tape by each of the heads, detecting the levels of the head outputs during such switching therebetween, and operating a clog indicator when the detected levels of the head outputs are insufficient during the scanning of the tape by each of the heads. In order to avoid a false clog indication, the operation of the clog indicator is inhibited when the usual fixed head does not reproduce control signals in the playback mode, for example, as when there has been no previous recording of information signals on the record tape.

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patent: 4489354 (1984-12-01), Dann

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