Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Mutsumi Ito

Tomokuni Wauke

Shinkichi Sasaki

Takashi Nakagawa

Disclosed is a disk device in which slide pieces slidable along an edge portion of a slide hole formed in a chassis are formed at the central part of both ends of a holder. The forward end of either of the slide pieces has a straight surface formed on the edge portion side; and an inclined portion is formed by obliquely cutting the surface of the edge portion side. When the disk case M inserted reaches a predetermined position, the holder slides within the slide hole of the chassis. In this case, the holder lowers while the inclined portion of the slide piece slides along the edge portion, enabling a decrease in the lowering speed of the holder to thereby reduce the lowering speed of the head descending into contact with the disk D.

Disk device

This invention relates to a flexible printed circuit board mounting structure capable of easily soldering an FPC to a printed circuit board. When the flexible printed circuit board (FPC) is soldered upright on the printed circuit board, the FPC holder is secured in the mounting hole of the printed circuit board by the pressure of the elastic portion, to thereby hold the FPC holder by a support projection cut and raised from a chassis. In this state, the terminal portion of the FPC is soldered to the edge portion of the mounting hole of the printed circuit board, thereby ensuring electrical connection of each circuit pattern of the FPC and the printed circuit board.

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