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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2004
Hideki Kuwajima, Kyoto, JP;
Hiromi Kita, Nara, JP;
Shigeo Obata, Hyogo, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An actuator gripping device which prevents the actuator of the head support device from serious trouble such as damage to the surface of the recording medium due to external shocks. An actuatorcomprises actuator sub-unithaving a tabat one end and provided with a head, and a voice coilmounted at the other end, a pivot pedestalwith a pair of abutments, and a spring platehaving an activating force to push the headtoward the recording medium, and that the actuator gripping device for gripping the actuatorcomprises a rampformed with the first stepped side surfaceand the second stepped side surfacehaving a specified angle respectively at either side of the second planeon which the tabis abutted at the shunt position in stop mode of the recording medium