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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1997
Juergen Kaaden, Villingen, DE;
Peter Mahr, Konigsfeld, DE;
Klaus Oldermann, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH, Villingen-Schwenningen, DE;
Abstract
The invention relates to a device for positioning a first element relatively to a second element. The device according to the invention uses lifting means comprising a cam element and actuator means to actuate the cam element. The cam element has a plurality of contiguously arranged sectors with machined edges belonging to first and second interleaved groups. The machined edges are shaped such that a response of the lifting means to the actuator means has different values for sectors of said first and second group thereby providing alternately a coarse positioning and a fine positioning. The device may for example be used to position a multitrack magnetic tape and a magnetic writing/reading head relatively to each other.