Storage media transducer loading/unloading and carriage lock mec

Details Storage media transducer loading/unloading and carriage lock mec Storage media transducer loading/unloading and carriage lock mec

1988-02-24

1989-11-28

Hecker, Stuart N.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Record transport with head stationary during transducing

Drum record

360 9701, G11B 2122

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048842613

ABSTRACT:
In a magnetic disk storage system, a hinged separator element having a plurality of angled surfaces is movable between first and second positions. In the first position, the disk storage system is in an operational state with magnetic transducers loaded onto the surfaces of rigid magnetic disks and a carriage which mounts cantilevered beams for the transducers being free to move radially relative to the disks. In the second position, carriage motion is inhibited by the separator element which engages the cantilevered beams to raise the transducers away from the surfaces of the disks and into unloaded positions. A spring loaded trigger member which normally engages the separator element to latch the separator element in either of the first and second positions is momentarily disengaged from the separator element to permit movement of the separator element from the first to the second position by the spring or from the second to the first positions in response to movement of the carriage. The carriage which is slidably mounted on rods is driven by a stepper motor, and the trigger member is momentarily disengaged from the separator element to permit movement of the separator element between the first and second positions by a solenoid assembly coupled via a link to the trigger member.

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Childers et al., "Compact Fixed Head Bar", IBM TDB, May 1979, vol. 21, No. 12, pp. 5017-5018.

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