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US 2004/0105373 A1Published application
Information recording/reading head
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorsTakanori Maeda, Atsushi Onoe
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Abstract
There is provided a circular guard so as to surround the vicinity of a tip portion of a probe mounted on an information recording/reading head, in order to prevent dusts from touching and colliding with the probe.
Claims19
An information recording/reading head for recording information on a recording surface of an information recording medium or reproducing information recorded on the recording surface of the information recording medium, comprising:
- a support portion which is placed above the recording surface of the information recording medium and whose position relative to the recording surface can be changed by a position control device in a predetermined direction parallel to the recording surface;
- a probe whose one side is supported by the support portion and whose the other side extends to the recording surface;
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- a guard which is supported by the support portion and which is placed in the vicinity of the probe,
- the guard being placed at a position which is a predetermined distance away from the recording surface,
- the guard being placed at least on a forward side of the probe in a situation that the relative position of the support portion is being changed in said predetermined direction.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.