Reproducing apparatus with suspension supporting a floating-type

Details Reproducing apparatus with suspension supporting a floating-type Reproducing apparatus with suspension supporting a floating-type

1992-02-25

1994-05-17

Young, W. R.

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

Condition indicating, monitoring, or testing

Including radiation storage or retrieval

360 75, 360 9903, 360103, 360105, 360114, 369 54, 369215, 369244, G11B 712

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053134451

ABSTRACT:
An information reproducing apparatus which has a rotating driver for rotating a disc-shaped recording medium, a floating-type head for reproducing information recorded in the recording medium while floating above the disc-shaped recording medium that is being rotated by the rotating driver, and a suspension, made of an elastic member, for supporting the floating-type head. The information reproducing apparatus is characterized in that the floating-type head has a slider which is floated by an air flow that is directed near the surface of the rotating disc-shaped recording medium, and that the slider has a bevelled portion at one side that faces the outer edge of the disc-shaped recording medium such that any contact between the slider and the ridge that exists along the outer edge area of the disc-shaped recording medium is virtually eliminated. Since the slider is virtually free from contacting the ridge that exists along the outer edge area of the disc-shaped recording medium, the storage capacity of the disc-shaped recording medium can be more effectively used.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3678482 (1972-07-01), Billawais
patent: 5077713 (1991-12-01), Takizawa et al.
patent: 5107471 (1992-04-01), Miyake
patent: 5124961 (1992-06-01), Yamaguchi et al.
"Experiment of Landing on-off Flying Head Slider" (a digest C-27 of the Spring-time National Convention of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, 1989).
"Flying Head Slider for Landing on-off" (a digest C-474 of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers of Japan, 1990).

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