Vibration proof supporting structure for disk-type information memory unit

• US 4,812,932 A
• Filed: 07/08/1987
• Issued: 03/14/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Katsuta, Atsushi, Tajima, Takeharu, Hishinuma, Toshio
• Primary Examiner(s): Wolff, John H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bussan, Matthew J.
• Application Number:
  US07/070,935
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 360/97-99, 310/91, 248/566, 248/568, 248/569, 248/570, 248/562, 248/563, 248/610, 248/611, 248/612, 248/613
• US Class Current: 360/97.01
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/08 Insulation or absorption of undesired vibrations or sounds

Abstract

Disclosed is a file memory unit having a casing for accommodating a head positioning mechanism and a magnetic recording disk virtually in sealed manner, and a frame for supporting the casing resiliently. The unit has the provision of a shock absorbing facility for absorbing the vibration created by the head positioning mechanism and the vibration and impact applied from the outside. The shock absorbing facility has a unitary structure having a first spring constant for absorbing relatively small vibration created by the casing, a second spring constant for absorbing the vibration applied from the outside, and a third spring constant for absorbing the impact applied from the outside.

Claims

1. In a file memory unit having a casing for accommodating a disk-shaped recording medium and a head positioning mechanism for positioning a read-write head along a path to an intended position on said recording medium and thereby producing head vibration, and a frame for supporting said casing through a vibration and impact absorbing means, wherein said casing accommodates a rotational drive mechanism for rotating said disk-shaped recording medium and the head positioning mechanism which produces the drive force for moving said readwrite head along the path to the intended position on said recording medium, and wherein said vibration and impact absorbing means is intended to absorb the vibration along the path that is attributable to the drive force of said head positioning mechanism within said casing and the vibration along the path that is applied to said frame from the outside of the file memory unit, wherein the improvement comprises:

said vibration and impact absorbing means having a first spring constant along said path that is small enough to allow the movement of the head vibration for a small first displacement along the path, of said casing relative to said frame without encountering a substantial

said vibration and impact absorbing means having a second spring constant along said path that is greater than said first spring constant for absorbing the vibration between said casing and said frame applied along said path to said frame from the outside of said frame for a second displacement along the path of said casing relative to said frame, with said second displacement occurring serially after said first displacement;

and said vibration and impact absorbing means having a third spring constant along said path that is greater than said second spring constant for absorbing a large impact applied to said frame from the outside of said frame that produces a third displacement along the path of movement of said casing relative to said frame, with said third displacement occurring serially after said second displacement.

2. A file memory unit according to claim 1, wherein said vibration and impact absorbing means comprises a first fixing member affixed to said casing, a second fixing member affixed to said frame, and a resilient member having said three spring constants located in the middle of said first and second fixing members.

3. A file memory unit according to claim 2, wherein said resilient member includes a hollow section having a cut-conical shape and at least partially determining said first spring constant, and a frame contact section with its reactive elastic force increasing progressively as it comes to contact with said frame so as to provide said third spring constant.

4. A file memory unit according to claim 2, wherein said resilient member has a cut-conical shaped hollow section for providing said first spring constant and a frame contact section formed in a plurality of protrusions for providing said third spring constant when they come into contact with the frame during the third displacement.

5. A file memory unit according to claim 2, wherein said resilient member is formed of a material having damping characteristics of dull resonance for the vibration propagation factor.

6. In a vibration proof supporting structure for a disctype information memory unit, comprising:

a casing for accommodating therein a disc-shaped recording medium and a positioning mechanism for moving a read/write head along a path for positioning said read/write head at an intended position on said disc-shaped recording medium and thereby producing head vibration;

a frame for mounting fixedly said casing, and

a plurality of vibration absorbing members serving for connecting said casing and said frame to each other and serving for absorbing vibrations along the path of high frequencies generated in said casing in accompaniment to the movement of said read/write head as well as vibrations along the path of low frequencies transmitted to said frame externally thereof, wherein the improvement comprises;

each of said vibration absorbing members including a first joint portion at which said vibration absorbing member is connected to said casing and a second joint portion located in opposition to said first joint portion and at which said vibration absorbing member is connected to said frame;

each of said vibration absorbing members being of such an external configuration that the cross-section of said vibration absorbing member parallel to said first joint portion is substantially circular; and

each of said vibration absorbing members having a cylindrical recess extending to a predetermined depth from said first joint portion toward said second joint portion for forming at least two separate and substantially different valued spring constants correspsonding to two serially adjacent relative movements along said path between said frame and casing and thereby correspondingly between said first joint portion and said second joint portion.

7. A vibration proof supporting structure for a disc-type information memory unit according to claim 6, said first and second joint portions of said vibration absorbing member have respective circular outer peripheries, and wherein said first joint portion has a diameter greater than that of said second joint portion.

8. A vibration proof supporting structure for a disc-type information memory unit according to claim 7, wherein said vibration absorbing member presents substantially a trapezoid shape in a plane containing a center line extending along the path from the center of said first joint portion to that of said second joint portion.

9. A vibration proof supporting structure for a disc-type information memory unit according to claim 6, said vibration absorbing member having an outline which extends from an outer peripheral point of said first joint portion to that of said second joint portion and in which a convex protrusion is formed and wherein said vibration absorbing member is substantially of a hexagonal form in a sectional plane containing a center line extending along the path from the center of said first joint portion to that of said second joint portion.

10. A vibration proof supporting structure for a disc-type information memory unit according to claim 7, wherein said first joint portion of said vibration absorbing member is secured to said casing by means of a screw through inter-position of a fitting member, and said second joint portion is secured to said frame by means of a screw.