Magnetic recording/reproducing device

• US 6,882,498 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2002
• Issued: 04/19/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Hirabayashi, Koichiro, Kurumatani, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Heinz, A. J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BLOUIN, MARK S
• Application Number:
  US10/159,390
• Publication Number:
  US 20020181144A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,055 Days
• Field of Search: 360/83, 438/122, 439/248, 439/325, 439/326, 439/327, 439/328, 439/329, 361/756, 361/759, 361/801
• US Class Current: 360/83
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 25/06 using web-form record carriers, e.g. tape
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 33/02 Cabinets; Cases; Stands; Disposition of apparatus therein or thereon

Abstract

A magnetic recording/reproducing device of the present invention includes: a chassis included in a mechanism section; a first protruded guide for maintaining a horizontal position of a board-like element attached to the chassis with respect to a horizontal plane of the chassis, the first protruded guide being provided on the chassis; and an arm rotatable with respect to the chassis, the arm is positioned so as to be out of contact with the board-like element when the board-like element is placed on the chassis before attachment thereto, and the arm is rotated about a rotation support axis center thereof so as to move to a position where the arm presses a top surface of the board-like element so that a vertical position of the board-like element with respect to a horizontal plane of the chassis is maintained for attachment of the board-like element to the chassis.

Claims

1. A magnetic recording/reproducing device, comprising:

a chassis included in a mechanism section;

a first protruded guide for maintaining a horizontal position of a board-like element attached to the chassis with respect to a horizontal plane of the chassis, the first protruded guide being provided on the chassis; and

an arm incorporated into the chassis by outsert molding so as to be rotatable with respect to the chassis,

wherein the arm is positioned so as to be out of contact with the board-like element when the board-like element is placed on the chassis before attachment thereto, and

the arm is rotated about a rotation support axis center thereof so as to move to a position where the arm presses a top surface of the board-like element so that a vertical position of the board-like element with respect to a horizontal plane of the chassis is maintained for attachment of the board-like element to the chassis.

2. A magnetic recording/reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein a second protruded guide is provided on the chassis such that movement of the arm is not stopped due to a difference in a vertical level between an edge of the board-like element and the chassis when the arm is moved toward the top surface of the board-like element.

3. A magnetic recording/reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein a third protruded guide is provided on the chassis such that a rotating angle of the arm is limited so as to maintain pressing contact between the top surface of the board-like element and the arm.

4. A magnetic recording/reproducing device according to claim 1, wherein the board-like element is a flexible printed circuit.