Patent ID: 6683839
Filing Date: 2004-01-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A storage apparatus having support rails laid down on a plane opposed to a storage medium in a direction transverse to the tracks on the storage medium, and accessing the storage medium using a carriage movable along the support rails, comprising:driving coils mounted on a plurality of flanks of said carriage for driving said carriage; and magnetic circuits each composed of a permanent magnet and yokes; said driving coils are each shaped like a rectangular parallelepiped whose sides extending in a direction along the flanks of said carriage are longer than other sides extending in a direction perpendicular to the flank; and said permanent magnet or yokes of each of said magnetic circuits is opposed to a plane containing the long sides of each of said rectangular parallelepiped-shaped driving coils; wherein support members for holding said driving coils are placed on and under said driving coils mounted on said flanks of said carriage in order to thus clamp the tops and bottoms of said driving coils; wherein said support members completely cover a surface area of said driving coils.