Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Toru Tanaka

Seishi Takahashi

Chiaki Kera

Yasunori Takahashi

Takahashi Seishi

A rotary connector has a fixed housing, a movable housing that is rotatably linked to the fixed housing, flat cables wound in an annular space formed between the outer tube of the fixed housing and the inner tube of the movable housing, and a first connector connected to ends of the flat cables in their longitudinal directions. The first connector has connection terminals, a base, and, a cable retaining part. Each connection terminal has a cable attaching part at one end and an outer conductor at the other end, and also has one or more connecting parts. The base has a first plane and a second plane, which face each other. A PTC device is placed on the same side as the first plane. The cable retaining part is placed on the same side as the second plane.

Rotary connector having a positive temperature coefficient device

A magnetic head for a video tape recorder including a mounting base and two transducer elements comprised of a pair of core tips mounted to one end of the mounting base with a small non-transducing gap defined between the core tips. Each of the core tips has a tape sliding surface on which a magnetic tape is slidingly traveled. A radius of curvature R (mm) of the tape sliding surface and a distance W (mm) between the tape sliding surfaces are so set as to satisfy the conditions of 19.5-20W .ltoreq.R.ltoreq.21.5-20W and 0.15.ltoreq.W.ltoreq.0.45. Accordingly, a quantity of sinking of the magnetic tape at the gap between both the core tips is limited to thereby reduce a noise in a special reproducing operation such as a reverse video search operation.

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Miyagi-ken, Japan

Toru Tanaka