Teac Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Yoshiaki Sakai

Hiroshi Tsuyuguchi

Fumio Nagase

Kenji Matsumoto

Shinichi Aikawa

Makoto Shoji

Yasushi Noda

Kiyoshi Fukuchi

Yoshio Hirose

Daihachiro Takasu

Hiroshi Takemoto

Kazuhiko Nakane

Kazuhiko Inoue

Akira Mashimo

Masaharu Ogawa

Takahiro Sakaguchi

Teruo Furukawa

Toshihiro Kitahara

Takashi Watanabe

Hiroshi Matsunaga

Tohru Miura

Hiroyuki Onda

Katsuya Enami

Tsutomu Morita

Kobun Yoshida

Hiroshi Ohkubo

Shozo Toma

Tetsuro Araki

Kazuhiko Suzuki

Miya Enami

Motoyuki Sukigara

Jun Makabe

Isamu Tsuchiya

Hikaru Tamada

Mitsuru Hasegawa

Katsuhiko Noda

Tamotsu Haraguchi

Kazuhiko Shiroyama

Tsutomu Kawasaki

Satoru Kikuchi

Kenji Takeuchi

Shinichiro Tanaka

Yoshiaki Umeda

Mitsutoshi Kondo

Shinzi Umehara

Tohru Hayashi

Kuniki Murayama

Kou Kobayashi

Yasuhiko Andou

Takashi Numata

A miniaturized magnetic head which can reduce running torque of a disk driving motor while head-touch and penetration margin of the magnetic head remain effective. The magnetic head comprises a slider which slides on a flexible magnetic disk, a head core, integrally formed with the slider, to perform recording/reproducing of information on/from the flexible magnetic disk, and a groove, having a width of less than 0.4 mm, formed on a sliding surface of the slider, the groove extending in a tangential direction of the rotation of the flexible magnetic disk and reaching from one end of the slider to the other end of the slider.

Magnetic head

A method of writing on a two-reel, belt driven, multitrack tape cartridge wherein tape tension increases with the progress of tape transportation from one reel to another. Forward tracks on the tape are predivided into a first group adjacent the tape centerline and a second group adjacent one tape edge, and reverse tracks are similarly predivided into a first and a second group. Writing on each of the first group of forward tracks is started in a position spaced a less distance from the tape beginning than on each of the second group of forward tracks. Writing on each of the first group of reverse tracks is also started in a position spaced a less distance from the tape end than on each of the second group of reverse tracks. Thus the tape offers a greater storage capacity than if, as is conventional in the art, writing on the first groups of forward and reverse tracks is started in the same longitudinal tape position as on the second groups of forward and reverse tracks.

Greater capacity writing method for a belt-driven tape cartridge or the

A disk apparatus comprising a controller receiving commands from a command input device and controlling an entire operation of the disk apparatus. The rotating control function is coupled to the controller for controlling the first motor. The pickupmotor control function is coupled to the controller for controlling the second motor. The pickup control function is coupled to the controller for controlling a focusing operation and a tracking operation of the pickup. And the signal processing function is coupled to the controller for processing a recording signal to be recorded on the disk-shaped recording medium and a reproduced signal read out therefrom. The controller is comprised function-stop function for determining whether or not any command is received from the command input device during a predetermined period of time in a state. The disk apparatus is maintained in a predetermined mode and for stopping predetermined function among the rotating control function, the pickup motor control function, the pickup control function, and the signal processing function when it is determined that no command is received from the command input device during the predetermined period.

Disk apparatus having a power consumption reducing mechanism

Disk unit

A flexible magnetic disk drive is disclosed which has a data transducer mounted to a pivotal support beam for movement into and out of data transfer contact with the disk. When the transducer is retracted away from the disk, the support beam butts on the top plate of the disk drive casing for the reduction of the thickness of the disk drive, that is, its dimension in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the disk. A stepper motor is provided for moving the transducer across data tracks on the disk in response to external stepping pulses from a host system and to internal stepping pulses for recalibration. The application of such stepping pulses to a stepper motor control circuit is prevented when the disk is not loaded in the disk drive, in order to avoid the movement of the support beam in sliding contact with the top plate.

Rotating disk data storage apparatus capable of preventing head travel

An assembling position-adjusting mechanism of a magnetic disk apparatus able to adjust the azimuth, radial alignment, and index of a magnetic head by adjusting a position thereof during the assembling process of a spindle motor. A positioning head movable in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of a table is provided. A plurality of positioning pins are provided on the bottom of the positioning head. Moving mechanisms are provided in the positioning head so that the bottom surface of the positioning head is movable and rotatable parallel to the top surface of the table. Each positioning pin of the positioning head is inserted into a respective positioning hole of a motor assembly so as to move the motor assembly with a movement of the positioning head so that the spindle motor of the motor assembly is at an appropriate position relative to the magnetic head of the main body of the magnetic disk apparatus.

Assembling position adjusting mechanism of a spindle motor for a

Disc drive

A method of, and an apparatus for, positioning a playback head in a transverse reference position on one edge of a multitrack magnetic tape having no track identification data or other positioning patterns prerecorded thereon. A tape drive unit is provided which has an erase head with an erase gap spanning the complete width of the tape. An alternating current generator circuit is connected to the erase head for supplying thereto a constant frequency alternating current to be written as a transverse head positioning pattern by the erase head on selected part of the tape throughout its width. The positioning pattern is then read by the playback head traveling across the width of the tape from an arbitrary position on the tape, in which the playback head is fully opposed to the positioning pattern, toward one edge of the tape while the tape is being driven longitudinally. The alternating current output from the playback head is of full amplitude when the playback head is fully opposed to the positioning pattern, and gradually decreases in amplitude when the playback head starts overrunning the tape edge. The travel of the playback head across the width of the tape is discontinued when the peak value of the playback head output decreases to a predetermined percentage of that when the playback head is fully opposed to the positioning pattern.

System for positioning a head in a transverse reference position on a

A disk storage device includes a head part for writing data to a storage disk inserted into the device and for reading data from the disk, an eject member which is operated when a disk cartridge containing the disk is ejected, a turntable for rotating and driving the disk thereon to perform data recording and reproducing with the head part, a holder for holding the disk cartridge containing the disk, the holder placing the disk at a read/write position on the turntable when the disk cartridge is inserted, a slider which is disconnected from a latch lever when the disk cartridge is inserted and is moved in a direction parallel to the direction of insertion of the disk cartridge so as to place the disk at the read/write position on the turntable, and a movement mechanism for moving the holder and the disk cartridge from the read/write position of the turntable to an insertion position in response to a movement of the slider in the direction opposite to the first direction when the eject member is operated. In this device, the eject member is mounted flat on an upper portion of a frame of the disk storage device which portion is parallel to a surface of the turntable, the eject member having an operation part which is operated by applying an external force thereto, and a transfer part connected to an end portion of the slider.

Disk storage device having eject member

Disk drive

A compatible disk drive is disclosed which is capable of writing and reading data on either of first, second and third interchangeable flexible magnetic disk cartridges of different storage capacities at first, second and third prescribed data transfer rates, respectively. The first and second disk cartridges have a first and a second capacity discriminate window, respectively, formed in different prescribed positions in their housings by way of contradistinction from each other and from the third disk cartridge which has no capacity discriminate window. The disk drive customarily employs two disk sensors for discriminating among the first, second and third disk cartridges. The invention ultilizes the binary outputs from the two disk sensors for the detection of the loading of any of the three types of disk cartridges, thereby dispensing with an additional sensor heretofore employed for that purpose.

Compatible data storage apparatus for use with disk assemblies of two or

A magnetic head assembly comprises a base defined with a flat slide surface on which a magnetic disk is contacted and a magnetic core embedded on the base surface so as to form a flush surface on the slide surface. The slide surface extends in a direction of rotation of the magnetic disk for a length B and has a width A in which the ration B/A is chosen equal to or larger than 4. The length B is set so as to satisfy a relation 0.35 m.ltoreq.B.ltoreq.0.55 m, where m is the length of an access opening in the housing for the disk in the rotational direction of the disk. At the same time, the slide surface is finished with such a precision that the slide surface shows a specular gloss. With such a magnetic head, the vibration of magnetic head assembly associated with rotation of the magnetic disk is successfully suppressed.

Magnetic head assembly

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Higashikurume, Japan

Yoshiaki Sakai