Patent ID: 6081500
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A head feeding apparatus comprising a guide mechanism for guiding a head in a direction of a diameter of a disk shaped recording medium and a moving mechanism for moving said head along said guide mechanism,said moving mechanism including a driving source, a rack and a transmission mechanism,said rack being moved together with said head,said transmission mechanism engaging with said rack to transmit a driving force from said driving source,said rack further containing elastic deformation section for urging a gear section of said rack toward said transmission mechanism, said elastic deformation section being H-shaped having open ends in an elongated direction and formed to deform in a plane including said elongated direction and into a void defined in said elastic deformation section, wherein at least one end of said gear section of said rack is formed to be elastically deformable in such a direction that said gear section is disengaged from said transmission mechanism.