Patent ID: 6219204
Filing Date: 2001-04-17
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A recording-medium recording and reproducing device, comprising:a head carriage supporting a head which performs recording and reproducing on a recording medium;a guide shaft guiding a movement of said head carriage;a guide-shaft holding member holding an end portion of said guide shaft at a predetermined position of a frame; anda driving portion moving said head carriage along said guide shaft,wherein said guide-shaft holding member comprises:a fixed portion fixed on said frame;a leaf spring portion, having a thickness, extending from said fixed portion and pushing said end portion of said guide shaft to the frame, said leaf spring portion being elastically deformable in the direction of its thickness; anda supporting portion projecting from said fixed portion so as to support an intermediate portion of said leaf spring portion in the longitudinal direction of said leaf spring portion, said intermediate portion thereby being allowed to be elastically deformed.