Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Drum record
Patent
1984-03-26
1987-03-31
Hecker, Stuart N.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Drum record
360 78, G11B 555, G11B 2108
Patent
active
046547371
ABSTRACT:
A carriage supporting at least one read/write head is displaceable by a rack and pinion drive toward and away from the axis of rotation of a magnetic disk. The carriage has a pair of rollers--one at the inner end of the carriage, the other at the outer end--in contact with a fixed precision guide. The rack is cantilevered from a flexure element projecting from the carriage and formed as an integral part of the carriage. The free end of the rack is resiliently biased so as to urge (i) the rack into firm, meshing engagement with the pinion and (ii) the carriage rollers into positive, preloaded engagement with the guide. The limits of carriage motion and spacing between rollers are such that the line of force between the rack and pinion is always intermediate the axes of the rollers so that the carriage is stable along the entire extent of its travel.
The rack is secured to the flexure element with a single screw fastener whose axis is oriented perpendicular to the pinion axis. Rapid and accurate prealignment of the rack and pinion teeth is thereby made possible.
A head loading arm, pivotally mounted on the carriage, is biased by a torsion spring toward the carriage. The force applied to the arm by the torsion spring is adjustable so that the head loading force can be precisely predetermined.
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Hopkins Donn A.
Niles, Jr. Raymond W.
Hecker Stuart N.
Severin David J.
Tandon Corporation
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