Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Takashi Nakagawa

Toru Sawada

Tomokuni Wauke

Shinkichi Sasaki

Mutsumi Ito

Sadahiro Takahashi

Tetsuo Ando

Takayuki Sasaki

A head carriage device includes a carriage, a head arm, a flat spring extending from the head arm, a fixing member to fix the flat spring to the carriage, a resilient member to resiliently urge the head arm in a direction in which the head arm moves toward the carriage, a lifting mechanism to pivot the head arm away from and toward the carriage, and a finger to which the lifting mechanism is applied, the finger being provided at one side of the head arm. The head carriage device is provided with a first protrusion and a second protrusion. When the head arm is pivoted away from the carriage, a restricting finger restricts the movement of a free end of the first protrusion away from the carriage, and a restricting face provided on the carriage restricts the movement of a free end of the second protrusion toward the carriage.

Head carriage

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.

Flexible printed circuit board mounting structure and recording/reproducing device using the same

The present invention relates to a head transferring mechanism of a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus which transfers a magnetic head. In the head transferring mechanism 17 in which a hold case 19 is hinge-connected to a rear end portion of a carriage 18, a fitting bed 18p is formed on a central portion of the tip portion of the carriage 18 and an adhesive filling groove 18r and a clearance groove 18s are made in an upper surface of the fitting bed 18p to be close to each other. Further, after a lower magnetic head 20 is placed on the fitting bed 18p, a lower surface of the lower magnetic head 20 is adhered and fixed onto the fitting bed 18p through an adhesive 28 put in the adhesive filling groove 18r.

Magnetic head-mounted to a tip portion of a carriage via adhesive in an

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Fukushima-ken, Japan

Takashi Nakagawa