Hitachi, Ltd.

Chikara Iwama

Noboru Katohno

Yoshihisa Tsurumi

In a magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus, for simplifying the structure of a fixing device of an audio-control head and for decreasing the number of adjustment procedures, a synthetic resin part formed of a plate member is molded of a resin integrally with a shaft part extending in a through hole in a base and with a fixed part provided on the opposite surface of the base to the surface of the base on which the plate member is provided, so that the synthetic resin part can be rotated around the through hole; an audio-control head is provided on a head plate, which is pressed toward the base by a spring fitted on a spring fixing screw; and three adjustment screws include screw parts which support the head plate, and cylindrical parts which abut against the surface of the base through holes bored through the synthetic resin part. Positioning of the audio-control head in a moving direction of a magnetic tape is effected by an adjustment jig between a notch on the synthetic resin part and a projection part on the base. Two of the adjustment screws are located on a straight line passing the center of the through hole in the base and the center of a control head, which positions are on the front and rear sides of the control head. Mainly, the height of the audio-control head is adjusted by one of the adjustment screws, the inclination angle .theta. is adjusted by another adjustment screw, and the azimuth angle is adjusted by the other one.

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