Abstract: A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus including a turntable supported rotatably by ball bearings on a fixed shaft. The turntable is adapted to support a magnetic disk having a central hole at which it is centered with respect to the turntable. The disk is rotatable with the turntable. One of the bearings has an outer ring including a portion projecting from the turntable, and the hole of the disk is engaged about the projecting portion of the outer ring.

Abstract: A dielectric filter comprises holes provided on a dielectric block, an inner conductor formed inside each hole, an earth electrode formed outside the dielectric block, a short-circuit electrode to connect the inner conductor with the earth electrode, input and output terminals inserted in the holes, a projection of dielectric material provided on the dielectric filter, one electrode formed on one surface of the projection and connected to the earth electrode, and other electrode formed on other surface of the projection and connected to the inner conductor, thereby large capacitance is formed between both electrodes and the dielectric filter can be formed in small size.

Abstract: A surface acoustic wave device comprising a device body and a multilayer printed board. The body has a piezoelectric substrate on which arrays of strip electrodes are formed. The body is covered with an insulating film except for locations where terminals are formed. The printed board is spaced a given distance from the body. The terminals of the printed board are connected via a solder layer with the terminals of the device body.

Abstract: A variable resistor circuit module in which a printed substrate having sliding resistor patterns for variable resistor formed by printing a thick organic film and a copper foil printed substrate for mounting electronic parts are prepared separately and laminated with each other by means of insulating hot melt adhesives and electroconductive heat seal connector to thereby electrically connect the copper foil soldering lands with the sliding resistor patterns and the conductive collector patterns.

Abstract: A motor control system of a printer of the type wherein a desired slow-up of a print head is effected by making use of the rotation of a stepping motor and printing is performed by the use of the head, which is characterized by a slow-up means for increasing gradually a drive frequency of the stepping motor from the stopped state of the head so as to provide a print speed required for the head to perform a print action thereby to result in a desired drive frequency, and a print processing means for instructing the head to perform printing, wherein the slow-up means effects slow-up over and beyond an inter-character space extending up to a next print character, and the print processing means instructs printing after passed over the inter-character space and even while slow-up is being effected, whereby the print speed can be enhanced while maintaining the quality of print.

Abstract: A small-sized, multifunctioned micro cassette tape player has one motor and one solenoid and a drive plate connected to the solenoid for moving a head base and a pinch roller between engaged and retracted positions. The tape player has a cam mechanism which includes a cam plate having a stopper portion for engaging a control pin on the drive plate to hold the drive plate at an intermediate retracted position from the engaged position, when the solenoid is deenergized for the first time after being energized, for high speed cue, review, and erasure operations. The cam plate also has a displaceable guide portion for allowing the control pin to pass and the drive plate to return to the fully retracted position when the solenoid is again energized and deenergized.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a retaining device for retaining a generally flat elongated part of a magnetic disc recording and reproducing apparatus. The lever retaining device is used to retain a disc eject lever in position on a bearing member of a disc player while preventing the same from slipping out of the position. Two guide pins are anchored upright on the bearing member of the disc player at a predetermined spacing from each other and have circumferential grooves near the heads thereof. Two slots are formed in the disc eject lever for allowing the two guide pins to extend therethrough when the eject lever is placed on the bearing member of the disc player. A generally flat elongated retainer member made of a thin elastic plate is formed at both its ends with engagement means for engagement with the circumferential grooves of the guide pins, when it is placed on the disc eject lever, to retain the disc eject lever.

Abstract: A printer of heat-sensitive transfer type has a horizontally arranged ink ribbon cassette to print a sheet of printing paper with the ink ribbon. The printer comprises: a platen for holding thereon the printing paper; a horizontal printing head made movable along the platen for bringing the ink ribbon into close contact with the printing paper held on the platen to thermally transfer the ink of the ink ribbon onto the printing paper; and a carriage made movable longitudinally of the platen, while carrying the printing head thereon, in accordance with the printing operation of the printing head. An ink ribbon peeling member is arranged horizontally on the sides of the printing head and carried together with the printing head by the carriage for sequentially peeling off that portion of the ink ribbon, which has been used for the printing operation, from the printing paper.

Abstract: An elastic surface wave element which prevents mixture of foreign substances to improve the reliability thereof and allows a peripheral circuit for driving the element to be integrated with the element to facilitate designing and assembly of the element. The elastic surface wave element comprises an element body and a multi-layered printed circuit board disposed one on the other with a predetermined gap left therebetween and having terminal sections connected to each other. The element further comprises a sound wave absorbing member which seals outer peripheries along which the element body and the multi-layered printed circuit board are joined together and thus seals airtight a face of the element on which electrodes are formed.

Abstract: An optical encoder comprises a sensor head provided with a light emission portion and first and second light reception portions sandwiching the light emission portion therebetween, and a code member on which a plurality of reflective portions are formed at a predetermined pitch, the sensor head being arranged such that the first light reception portion, the light emission portion, and the second light reception portion successively face the code member with respect to the direction of movement of the reflective portions of the code member, and such that an azimuth angle of the light emission and light reception portions with respect to the direction of movement of the reflection portions of the code member can be changed, whereby two output having a predetermined phase difference can be obtained by suitably setting the azimuth angle of the light emission and light reception portions.

Abstract: An auto-return type push switch is provided with a casing and a cover plate for covering the open face of the casing, and a slide member accommodated movably in the casing which has a lug projecting outside the case through the hole of the cover plate. A pair of fixed electrodes are erected on the bottom surface of the casing, and a clip-shaped movable contact segment accommodated in the cylinder portion of the slide member is contactable with the fixed electrodes. A helical spring is provided between the collar portion of the slide member and the bottom surface of the casing so as to surround the cylinder portion, wherein one contact leaf of the movable contact segment is in contact with one of the fixed electrodes and the other contact leaf with the other of the fixed electrodes.

Abstract: A multi-slider electrical assembly includes a plurality of electrical devices slidable on conductive patterns printed on a single substrate structure. The substrate structure consists of a first insulative film having the conductive patterns printed on its surface and a second insulative film having lead ciricuit patterns so that the patterns are heat-sealed at their opposed connection lands.

Abstract: A film-covered terminal comprises a foil-like or plate-like electrode terminal with its opposite surfaces covered with sealing films through bonding layers respectively, a rivet of a conductive plastic material inserted through the electrode terminal, the bonding layers, and the sealing films, and welded to the electrode terminal, the bonding layers, and the sealing films, and a soldering member secured to an end portion of the rivet. A method of manufacturing a film-covered terminal is also disclosed which comprises the steps of covering opposite surfaces of a foil-like and plate-like electrode terminal with sealing films through bonding layers respectively, inserting a rivet of an electrically conductive plastic material into a through hole formed through the electrode terminal, the bonding layers, and the sealing films, the rivet having an end portion at which a soldering member is secured, and thermally press-bonding the opposite ends of the rivet.

Abstract: A mirror position control device for use in an automobile has mirror angle adjusting motors for adjusting the angle of the mirror to a position previously determined by an individual driver, a memory unit for storing the angles of the mirror desired by each of a plurality of drivers, an angle detector for detecting the actual angle of the mirror, and a control unit for comparing the actual angle as detected by the angle detector with the predetermined angle of an individual driver stored in the memory unit and for applying a control signal to the mirror angle adjusting motors to adjust the angle of the mirror to the optimum angle suited for the individual driver.

Abstract: An optical rotary encoder is formed by a control pulse generator portion and a selector switch portion which are of the unitary construction. The control pulse generator portion is formed by a code plate having a plurality of alternately formed reflecting and non-reflecting areas, a plurality of light emitting and receiving elements facing the code plate and an inner shaft for rotating the code plate. The selector switch portion is formed by a second code plate having a plurality of light transmitting apertures, a plurality of light emitting elements facing the second code plate, a plurality of light receiving elements provided on the opposite side of the second code plate from those light emitting elements and an outer shaft for rotating the second code plate. The inner and outer shafts are connected to each other and have a common axis of rotation.

Abstract: A waveguide-microstrip line converter for mode conversion in transmitting signals from a waveguide to a microstrip line or in the reverse, which comprises a dielectric body, a probe formed integrally with and within the dielectric body, and a conductive layer formed over the surface of the dielectric body excluding a surface to be brought into contact with a waveguide and an area surrounding the connecting part of the probe. The conductive layer is formed over the entire surface of the dielectric body, and then part of the conductive layer is removed by etching to provide the uncoated surface to be brought into contact with the waveguide and the probe. Thus the probe is continuous with the conductive layer and is an integral part of the dielectric body, so that the performance of the probe is unaffected by vibration and the high frequency resistance across the short-circuit waveguide is reduced to reduce signal transmission loss.

Abstract: A disk recording-reproducing device of the type wherein in response to open/close action of a door the clamp operation against a disk is commenced, which is characterized by a door plate provided on its front end with the door and urged toward the door, a rotary frame supporting slidably the door plate and urged rotatably in the open direction of the door, and a lock plate formed with a notch engagable with a lock portion provided on the door plate at the close time of the door and urged in the engaging direction, whereby a force caused by door opening and locking is not applied unduly to a front panel of the device.

Abstract: An optical coordinate input device comprises a plurality of light emitting elements arranged so that their optical axes intersect mutually, a plurality of light receiving elements arranged so as to receive the light signals of the light emitting elements, a drive circuit for turning on/off the light emitting elements on the basis of a drive signal to cause them to provide the light signals, a first switching circuit for switching the output given from the drive circuit to among the light emitting elements, a second switching circuit for switching the signals given from the light receiving elements in correspondence with the light emitting element lighting, and a waveform shaping circuit for regulating the signal given from the second switching circuit to a certain voltage level on the basis of the drive signal.

Abstract: A multiple substrate assembly has a metallic plate sandwiched in between two printed circuit substrates. The metallic plate has cut and erect segments passing through thru-holes formed in at least one substrate, so that printed circuit paths on the outer surfaces of the substrates can be grounded to the metallic plate.

Abstract: An optical rotary encoder comprises reflecting portions and nonreflecting portions provided alternately on a peripheral surface of a measured body freely rotatable, a light emitting diode for projecting light onto the measured body, a number of light receiving elements each delivering an output pulse signal upon reception of the light reflected from the reflecting portions of the measured body, and a counter for counting the number of pulses of the output signal obtained from the light receiving element for providing an output corresponding to a rotating angle of the measured body. A monitoring light receiving element is further provided near the light emitting diode, and the light output of the light emitting diode is controlled based on the output signal obtained from the monitoring light receiving element.