Device for adjusting a sensor at a reference position corresponding to a reference track position of a read/write head

• US 4,780,778 A
• Filed: 11/24/1986
• Issued: 10/25/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/1983
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: ALPS Electric Company Limited (Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Shiraishi, Tadashi, Gunji, Kunihiko, Saito, Yukio
• Primary Examiner(s): Tupper, Robert S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sniezek, Andrew L.
• Application Number:
  US06/935,103
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• Field of Search: 360/101, 360/104, 360/105, 360/106, 360/107, 360/109, 360/77, 360/74.1, 360/74.6
• US Class Current: 360/294.1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/56 with provision for moving the head support for the purpose of adjusting the position of the head relative to the record carrier, e.g. manual adjustment for azimuth correction or track centering G11B5/52, G11B5/54, G11B5/58 take precedence

Abstract

A device for adjusting the position of a sensor corresponding to a predetermined reference track position of a read/write head with respect to a track on a magnetic disk, comprises a chassis, a carriage movably mounted on the chassis and supporting the read/write head, the carriage including a portion to be detected, an adjustment plate supporting a sensor for detecting the portion and having a pivot adjacent to the sensor and by which the adjustment plate is pivotally supported on the carriage, the adjustment plate having an actuating portion in one end thereof remote from the pivot, and a screw adjustably threaded through the adjustment plate into the chassis at a position between the actuating portion and the pivot.

Claims

1. A device for adjustingly setting the position of a sensor which indicates when a carriage supporting a read/write head is in a position corresponding to a reference track position of a magnetic disk in a disk drive unit, comprising:

a chassis;

a carriage movably mounted on said chassis and supporting the read/write head, said carriage being movable in a radial direction with respect to the magnetic disk so as to move the read/write head between a reference track position and any of a plurality of data track positions corresponding to tracks defined on the magnetic disk, wherein said carriage includes an arm portion having an end which is moved with said carriage in the radial direction between positions corresponding to the reference track position and the data track positions of said carriage;

an adjustment plate mounted on said chassis and having one end portion as a pivot point pivotably secured to said chassis, an actuating end portion extended opposite from said one end portion in a transverse direction perpendicular to the radial direction which is pivotable for adjusting movement substantially along the radial direction, and a slot formed in said adjustment plate between said two ends extending substantially in the radial direction;

a sensor mounted between the two ends of said adjustment plate for detecting the end of the arm portion of said carriage when it is in a reference position corresponding to the reference track position, said sensor being movable to adjust its position in the radial direction relative to the end of the arm portion in the reference position in conjunction with the adjusting movement of said actuating end portion of said adjustment plate;

first securing means for pivotably securing said one end of said adjustment plate as a pivot point to said chassis; and

second securing means adjustably secured through said slot to said chassis for securing said adjustment plate so as to fix an adjusted position of said sensor at the reference position of the end of the arm portion of said carriage corresponding to the reference track position.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein said adjustment plate has a detector body mounted thereon and having a central groove, said end of each arm portion being positioned in said central groove, said sensor providing a detection line extending across said central groove.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein said actuating end portion includes a recess into which a driver lever can be inserted to move said actuating end portion adjustingly by a rotation of said driver lever.

4. A device according to claim 3, wherein said chassis has a recess defined therein in a position corresponding to a center of adjusting movement of said adjusting end portion, whereby said driver lever is positioned in said recess of said actuating end portion and having a prong thereon which can be located in said recess in said chassis for adjusting said adjusting end portion by turning said driver lever about said prong.

5. A device according to claim 4, wherein said recess in said chassis is conical in shape.

6. A device according to claim 4, wherein said recess in said chassis is positioned on a line extending through said pivot and said second securing means.

7. A device according to claim 1, wherein said adjusting plate is mounted to said chassis at said pivot by a screw.