Patent ID: 6655005
Filing Date: 2003-12-02
Classification: G11B,Y10T

Abstract:
A magnetic head positioning apparatus for positioning a head body opposed to a recording medium and a support member for supporting said head body, said apparatus comprising:light radiating means for directing light to a combined portion of said body and said support member; a camera with a multitude of photodetectors arranged therein to detect the light reflected from said head body and said support member; image processing means for processing an image detected by the photodetectors of said camera; and adjusting means for adjusting a position of said head member and that of said support member relative to each other so that a distance between an edge portion of the head body and the center of a concave pivot formed in the support member and serving as a pivoting fulcrum of the head body, both said edge portion and said pivot center being detected by said camera, is within a tolerance, wherein, assuming that blocks where luminances corresponding respectively to the photodetectors appear on the image are unit blocks, the luminances of plural unit blocks arranged in a predetermined direction are compared in said image processing means to specify the edge portion of said head body positioned in a unit block selected from the unit blocks and a central position of said pivot, further wherein variations in luminance between other unit blocks arranged in the same direction of the unit blocks arranged in the predetermined direction are derivated, and the derivated value of luminance in the unit block of highest luminance and the derivated values of luminance in plural unit blocks adjacent thereto are compared to specify an actual position of a boundary line in one unit block, the position of the edge portion of said head body and the central position of said pivot being determined by the actual position of said boundary line.