Patents Assigned to Teac Corportion
  • Patent number: 4697467
    Abstract: A rotary to linear converter is disclosed in a flexible magnetic disk drive environment for translating the bidirectional, incremental rotation of a stepping motor into the linear stepwise displacement of a head carriage. A flexible, nonstretchable band is looped about a pulley nonrotatably mounted on the motor output shaft and is affixed thereto. Extending generally in opposite directions away from the pulley, the opposite ends of the band are apertured or otherwise adapted for engagement with respective hooks on the head carriage. Each hook has a substantially arcuate contact surface for direct engagement with the correspondingly shaped edge of the band defining the associated aperture, so that each end portion of the band is angularly displaceable in its own plate about the associated hook on the head carriage. Spring tensioned in its longitudinal, the band automatically aligns itself by simple engagement of the carriage hooks with its opposite ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1987
    Assignee: Teac Corportion
    Inventor: Yasuhiko Ando
  • Patent number: D385275
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1997
    Assignee: Teac Corportion
    Inventors: Masafumi Ito, Minoru Sube, Haruki Takita, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Yukio Iikura