Pick-up assembly for video disc player
AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsMahito Tsuji, Toshiyuki Kudo, Kazuo Itoh
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Abstract
A pick-up assembly for use in a video disc player comprises a stylus having one lengthwise surface provided with an electrode and secured to a stylus carrier with the electrode facing in a direction away from the carrier, and a generally strip-shaped fly lead having one end bent and connected physically and electrically to the electrode by the use of an electroconductive bonding agent, thereby minimizing the required length of the expensive stylus and rendering to decrease the noise of the pick-up assembly.
Claims5
A pick-up assembly which comprises, in combination:
- a generally square cross-sectional elongated stylus having first and second planar surfaces disposed opposite to and generally parallel to each other, and having an electrode provided on said first planar surface of said stylus so as to extend lengthwise thereof;
- a generally elongated stylus carrier having first and second support faces formed at one end thereof so as to lie at right angles to each other, said stylus having said second planar surface and one adjacent surface secured to said first and second support faces so as to position said first planar surface of said stylus to face in a direction away from said carrier, said stylus so secured extending generally transversely of the longitudinal axis of the carrier;
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- a generally strip-shaped resilient fly lead having one end bent to protrude generally perpendicular to the remaining portion thereof so as to form a lateral plane surface parallel to said first planar surface of said stylus, said bent end being physically and electrically connected to said electrode.
The method of assembling a pickup assembly comprising a stylus, a stylus carrier, and a fly lead, comprising the steps of:
- forming an electrode on one surface of said stylus;
- physically bonding said stylus to said stylus carrier so as to position said electrode away from said carrier;
- bending one end of said fly lead to protrude generally perpendicularly to the adjacent portion of said fly lead;
- physically and electrically bonding said bent end of said fly lead to said electrode;
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- physically bonding an adjacent portion of said fly lead to said stylus carrier.
A pickup assembly comprising a stylus, a stylus carrier, and a fly lead, said stylus having two generally parallel opposed planar surfaces and having an electrode formed on one of said surfaces and having the other surface bonded to said stylus carrier, said fly lead being generally strip-shaped with one end bent at right angles to the remainder, said bent end being physically and electrically bonded to said electrode and a portion adjacent to said bent end being physically bonded to said stylus carrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.