Ampex Corporation

Ampex Systems Corporation

James K Lubin

Steven L Magnusson

A flexural pantographic mount for use in a helical scan magnetic tape transport, the mount being a boxed leaf stiffened flexural pantograph mount, for holding and varying the position of a moveable head in a helical scan automatic scan tracking magnetic tape transport. The mount includes a moveable body such as a magnetic transducing head assembly coupled at one end of first and second generally parallel spaced apart elongated flexural pantographic leaves configured at the opposite free ends thereof for attachment to a fixed body. Each leaf includes first and second integrally formed and bent leaf edge extensions, which act as side stiffeners. A triangularly configured opening and a trapezoidally configured opening are formed in each leaf with each opening being configured to include tab projections for bending into the opening to provide transverse or lateral stiffening. An auxiliary web-like stiffening member is added to each leaf in the space therebetween, with each stiffener being separately formed and configured for attachment to the respective leaf to the side stiffeners and the tab projections of the openings to form a box-like cross-sectional configuration in conjunction with the side leaf edge extensions. The openings are formed in each leaf at locations such that the flexing surface of the leaves, at the connection to the fixed body and at the connection to the moveable body, are smaller width strap sections, substantially less than the width of the corresponding portion of the leaf.

Boxed leaf flexural pantographic mount for a magnetic transducing head

An apparatus for an axially displaced flexural bearing support assembly including a unitary or monolithic bearing support base member having a bearing receiving tube supported by a first and second generally parallel arrangement of flexural spoke members to control bearing pre-load due to axial differential expansion while eliminating radial displacement of the spindle or shaft supported within the tube. The spoke members of each arrangement include a plurality of spoke members arranged in parallel planes generally perpendicular to the axis of a spindle insertable within and supported within the tube by means of bearings. In the preferred embodiment, there are three spokes for each set in each plane, with the spokes being equiangularly displaced. To facilitate casting as a monolithic unit, one set of spokes is offset from the other by an angle half the angle between spokes, that is sixty degrees, and further, the width of the spokes is such that no spoke portion overlies any other spoke portion, as viewed from a line along the axis. The assembly also includes a generally hollow housing portion having a second bearing receiving opening, the housing and the base support member being configured for pinning together to permit finish boring of the two coaxially aligned bearing support members at the same time to the same tolerance to ensure alignment of the centers of the openings for receiving the bearings and spindle therein. The housing is configured for receiving a scanner drive motor therein.

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Pacifica, CA, United States of America

James K Lubin