Hitachi, Ltd.

Atsuo Ishida

Kazuyoshi Hanada

Asao Sasamoto

Toshio Shiono

Hideo Amano

The invention provides an improved mechanical apparatus having a driving mechanism for moving two movably contacting members relative to each other. The driving mechanism is combined with a temperature-displacement converter which drives the two members to be displaced relative to each other in response to a variation of the environmental temperature independently of operation of the driving mechanism. The temperature-displacement converter provides a fine displacement of the movable contacts in response to a variation of the environmental temperature to prevent a possible adhesive phenomenon between the two members or a possible increase of the sliding resistance between them, thereby preventing an adhesive phenomenon between a magnetic head of the CSS type and a magnetic disk of a magnetic disk device and so forth. A more effective operation is attained by further employment of a one-way clutch which is put into a coupled condition only when the relative displacement by the temperature-displacement converting means occurs in a predetermined direction but into a non-coupled condition when the relative movement is caused by the driving mechanism.

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Odawara, Japan

Atsuo Ishida