Patent ID: 6016239
Filing Date: 2000-01-18
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A transducer apparatus for use with a recording medium set at a recording medium location, comprising:a transducer for recording and reproducing information on a recording medium set at the recording medium location;a slider coupled with said transducer and including a projecting member for protruding towards a recording medium set at the recording medium location, said projecting member defining a substantially rectilinearly extending contact region at which said slider is adapted to contact a recording medium, set at the recording medium location, along a contact line defined by a segment extending through a substantially longitudinal central axis of said contact region and bounded by opposite ends of said contact region;wherein said transducer is outside of said contact region;a pivot means for pivotally supporting said slider so as to pivot about a pivot axis substantially perpendicular to said contact line; anda loading means for depressing said projecting member against a recording medium set at said recording medium location.