Mitsumi Electric Company Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Sony Kabushiki Kaisha

Naoto Inoue

Kiyotaka Yamaguchi

Kazuhito Kurita

Toshihiro Kusunoki

Takashi Ishizawa

Yasuhiro Habara

Hideyuki Ikeda

A magnetic head apparatus has a reduced thickness by preventing a jumping action of a magnetic head that can occur in a head-up state. A leaf spring has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, and the leaf spring supporting the magnetic head at the first end, the leaf spring having a surface facing the magnetic medium. A mount member holds the leaf spring, the leaf spring being mounted to the mount member at the second end. A supporting portion extends from the mount member, and engages the surface of the leaf spring at a position between the magnetic head and the mount member.

Magnetic head apparatus having a reduced thickness

Magnetic head

In a cleaning mechanism for a magnetic head which mechanically cleans a recording/reproducing face of a magnetic head by using a cleaning brush, a basal portion of which is supported by a device fixing portion, a resin block is fixed to an end portion of an L-shaped brush stem of the cleaning brush, the brush stem being made of a metal plate, and a number of brush pieces which are to come into contact with the recording/reproducing face are formed integrally with the resin block.

Cleaning mechanism for a magnetic head and a method of producing a

A magnetic head connecting structure includes a back of a magnetic head held by a tape guide covered with a backshield made of a metal strip and a flexible board soldered to lead terminals of the magnetic head which project from openings of the backshield. In such a magnetic head, a pair of temporarily retaining pawls projecting toward the tape guide are integrally molded on both sides of the backshield, and the temporarily retaining pawls are inserted and temporarily retained in corresponding fixing holes formed in a back of the tape guide.

Magnetic head connecting structure having temporarily retaining pawls

A magnetic head device with a cleaning mechanism includes: a head mounting stand including a head setting space in which a magnetic head is set, and tape guides for regulating the running of a magnetic tape, a lever which is swingably supported by a shaft on the upper surface of the rear end portion of the head mounting stand, a cleaning member embedded in the inner surface of the front end portion of the lever which is bent, and a drive member engaged with the rear end portion of the lever to swing the lever, the cleaning member being slidably moved on the front surface of the magnetic head. In the device, the shaft and the head mounting stand are formed as one unit.

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Yamagata, Japan

Naoto Inoue