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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1981
James D Barry, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joseph M Denney, Palos Verdes, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
A photoconductive film reader comprises a disc with a read head attached to its bottom surface at an edge point and rotated over the photoconductive film at a sufficiently high velocity so that the read head floats aerodynamically on the film, the read head having means for sensing the information stored as electrostatic charge on the film. The film has a reset strip of a predetermined amount of charge prerecorded along one of its edges, resetting of the read head electronics being coincident with the passage of the read head over the reset strip. The floatation of the read head on the film reduces the effect of film modulations on the film-to-read head spacing and allows the spacing to be well defined and controllable.