Advances In Information Storage Systems: Selected Papers From The International Conference On Micromechatronics For Information And Precision Equipmen

Volume 9 of "Advances in Information Storage Systems" contains selected papers regarding not only information storage but also information equipment in general and related technologies. The papers were presented at the International Conference on Micromechatronics for Information and Precision Equipment (MIPE '97). This conference was held in Tokyo, Japan, from 20 to 23 July 1997, as one of the memorial events of the Centennial Grand Congress of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. Information and precision equipment is fast-changing high technology, and is necessary for the development of an international multimedia society and essential for the innovation of conventional machines as well as the creation of new sophisticated machines for future medical, biological and cosmic industries in the 21st century. Information and precision equipment can improve their performances by analysing, designing, fabricating, controlling and then utilizing a smaller and smaller world in space and time. The scope of the conference ranged from the micromechanics and micromechatronics of information storage, input/output devices, and precision equipment to microtechnologies related to information equipment. The papers in "Advances in Information Storage Systems" are mainly related to information storage, particularly magnetic recording storage. But some of them are related to printer, paper-feeding-mechanism and micromachine technologies, which will directly or indirectly contribute future information devices. Volume 9 contains papers on the mechanics and tribology of magnetic recording storage systems (mainly hard disk drives).