Data transfer apparatus having a magnetic transducer head capable of proper data transfer contact with a flexible magnetic dick without fine adjustment

摘要

A flexible magnetic disk drive is disclosed which has a transducer head requiring little or no positional or angular readjustment for proper data transfer contact with a flexible magnetic disk in the face of possible dimensional or mounting errors. The transducer head has a rounded contact surface for data transfer contact with the flexible magnetic disk, in which surface is defined a transducing gap, typically a read/write gap. The transducing gap is offset toward the axis of the magnetic disc from a notional line right angularly crossing, at the apex of the contact surface, another notional line connecting the apex of the contact surface and the center of the magnetic disk. So positioned on the contact surface, the transducing gap is practically free from the wobbling motion of that part of the rotating magnetic disk which is radially outward of its points of contact with the transducer head and with a pressure pad. The transducing gap can be arranged on the contact surface as above merely by mounting a transducer head of standard construction in a slanting attitude on a carriage which transports both the head and the pressure pad radially of the magnetic disk.