Patent ID: 8610391

Claim:
A disk drive comprising: a disk; a head actuated over the disk; a spindle motor for rotating the disk, the spindle motor comprising a plurality of windings; and control circuitry operable to spin-up the disk by: applying a sinusoidal driving voltage to each winding of the spindle motor; measuring a back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage generated by at least one of the windings; measuring a rotation speed of the spindle motor; and adjusting the sinusoidal driving voltage in order to optimize a lead angle relative to the rotation speed and a target maximum current applied to at least one of the windings, wherein the lead angle represents a degree the sinusoidal driving voltage leads the BEMF voltage, wherein the control circuitry is operable to adjust the sinusoidal driving voltage so that the lead angle is approximately equal to: arctan ⁡ ( ω e ⁢ L w × I max K e ⁢ ω + R w × I max ) where: ω represents the rotation speed of the spindle motor; ω e represents an electrical rotation speed of the spindle motor; I max represents the maximum current; K e represents a voltage constant of the spindle motor; L w represents an inductance of at least one of the windings; and R w represents a resistance of at least one of the windings.