CA1153110A - Rotary transducer head assembly - Google Patents
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Abstract
ABSTRACT
ROTARY TRANSDUCER HEAD ASSEMBLIES
A rotary magnetic head assembly for a helical scan video tape recorder comprises a tape guide arrangement 2 for guiding a video tape 1, the tape guide arrangement 2 including coaxial rotatable and fixed drums 5 and 6 and tape guides 3 and 4, a pair of parallel-aligned bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 secured to the rotary drum 5, a pair of elastic plates 28 fixed on respective free ends of the pair of bi-morph leaves 22 and 23, a rigid portion 28 bridging the elastic plates 29, and a video head 9 mounted on the rigid portion 28. When the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected in response to a control signal to follow a track 11, 12 or 13 on the video tape 1, the elastic plates 29 self-deflect such that the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 remains aligned with the surface of the video tape 1.
ROTARY TRANSDUCER HEAD ASSEMBLIES
A rotary magnetic head assembly for a helical scan video tape recorder comprises a tape guide arrangement 2 for guiding a video tape 1, the tape guide arrangement 2 including coaxial rotatable and fixed drums 5 and 6 and tape guides 3 and 4, a pair of parallel-aligned bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 secured to the rotary drum 5, a pair of elastic plates 28 fixed on respective free ends of the pair of bi-morph leaves 22 and 23, a rigid portion 28 bridging the elastic plates 29, and a video head 9 mounted on the rigid portion 28. When the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected in response to a control signal to follow a track 11, 12 or 13 on the video tape 1, the elastic plates 29 self-deflect such that the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 remains aligned with the surface of the video tape 1.
Description
, 1153~10 ROTARY TRANSDUCER HEAD ASSEMBLIES
This invention relates to rotary transducer head assemblies and more particularly, but not exclusively, to rotary magnetic head assemblies for helical scan video tape recorders (HVTRs).
Recently, automatic head tracking systems have been used in HVTRs.
Such head tracking systems use a deflectable magnetic head mounting assembly on which a video magnetic head is mounted, and the assembly can be controlled so that the magnetic head scans a video tape at different angles relative to the length of the video tape. Control of the angle is necessary to keep the magnetic head in accurate alignment with a track to be reproduced, most especially when the video tape is transported at a speed other than the normal reproduction speed or even when the video tape is stopped for the purpose of still mode reproduction. Thus, such an assembly permits maintenance of the required scan angle during so-called special reproduction modes, such as still, slow, fast and even reverse reproduction, but nevertheless there is a problem with such assemblies. This problem arises because the assembly uses a single bi-morph leaf, made for example of piezoelectric ceramic material, one end of the leaf being secured to a rotary member and the magnetic head being secured to the other end of the leaf. The bi-morph leaf arrangement is very simple and so long as the deflection angle of the bi-morph leaf is small, good head-to-tape contact is maintained. However, when a more substanti~al angle of deflection is required, for example when the video tape is being transported at more than twice the normal reproduction speed or is being transported in the reverse direction, the tape-contacting surface of the magnetic head is no longer aligned with the surface of the video tape and there is consequent deterioration in the quality of the reproduced signal.
According to the present invention there is provided a deflectable transducer head mounting assembly comprising:
a first deflectable member;
a second deflectable member mounted on said first deflectable mernber and which deflects in response to deflection of said first deflectable member;
and a transducer head for transducing signals and mounted on said second deflectable member.
1~53110 According to the present invention there is also provided a rotary magnetic head assembly for a helical scan video tape recorder, the assembly comprising:
a tape guide arrangement for guiding a video tape, the arrangement including coaxial rotatable and fixed drums;
a pair of parallel-aligned bi-morph leaves secured to said rotary drum;
a pair of elastic portions fixed on respective free ends of said pair of bi-morph leaves;
a rigid head base portion bridging said pair of elastic portions; and a transducer head mounted on said head base portion.
The invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, throughout which like references designate like elements, and in which:
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tape guide arrangement;
Figure 2 is a view of a video tape with recording tracks shown thereon;
Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view of part of a previously proposed rotary magnetic head assembly;
Figure 4 shows a detail from Figure 3;
Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view of part of an embodiment of rotary magnetic head assembly according to the invention;
Figure 6 is a detail from Figure 5 indicating the operation;
Figure 7 is a graph for explaining the operàtion of the embodiment of Figures 5 and 6; and Figures 8, 9A, 9B and 9C are enlarged views of modified forms of a part of the embodiment of Figures 5 and 6.
The embodiment to be described will be assumed to form part of an HVTR of the one head omega-wrap type, although the invention is not limited to this application. As is well known, a one inch video tape format called type C is authorized by the SMPTE, and in this format the video tape is wrapped around a tape guide assembly through an angle of 340 degrees.
HVTRs using the type C format include a sync head and a video head for recording and/or reproducing vertical synchronizing signals and the video portions respectively of a television signal. For the purpose of special reproduction modes, that is to say still, slow, fast or reverse reproduction, an additional reproducing video magnetic head is provided, this magnetic ~53110 head having a deflectable mounting. When this additional video head is in operation, only the video portion of the tracks on the video tape are scanned and reproduced, and the sync track portion is not reproduced.
The invention and hence the present description is particularly concerned with the deflectable mounting assembly for such an additional head.
Referring now to Figure 1, a video tape 1 is wrapped around a tape guide arrangement 2, the angle of wrap being approximately 340 degrees and being determined by a pair of tape guides 3 and 4. The tape guide arrangement 2 also includes an upper rotatable drum 5 and a lower fixed drum 6, the rotatable drum 5 being rotated by a motor 7 at sixty revolutions per second in the case of an NTSC television signal or at such other speed as is appropriate to the television signal being handled, which speed may for example be fifty revolutions per second for a PAL television signal. ln Figure 1 the rotating direction of the rotatable drum 5 and the normal tape transport direction are indicated by arrows A and B, respectively. In the periphery of the rotatable drum 5 there is provided a head window 8 through which projects a video head 9 to contact the video tape 1.
Figure 2 shows a pattern of video recording tracks 10, 11 and 12 on the video tape 1, and also a head scanning locus 15. If it is assumed that the video tape 1 is being transported in the normal direction at the normal reproducing speed, then the video head 9 may scan the track 11. On the other hand, when the video tape 1 is stopped, the video head 9 may follow the head scanning locus 15 which starts on the track 11, crosses the guard band between the tracks 11 and 10 and finishes on the track 10. Clearly this results in unsatisfactory reproduction, and to counteract this the video head 9 is constrained to move at a smaller scanning angle relative to the length of the video tape 1, by control of a deflectable head assembly on which the video head 9 is mounted, so that the video head 9 merely scans the track 11 as before.
An example of such a previously-proposed deflectable head assembly 16 is shown in Figure 3, wherein the video head 9 is mounted at the free end of a bi-morph leaf 17. The bi-morph leaf 17 is secured to the rotatable drum 5 together with a cover member 18 by a screw 19. Disposed between the cover member 18 and the body of the rotatable drum 5 so as resiliently to grip the bi-morph leaf 17 is a rubber block 2~ for damping the vibration of the bi-morph leaf 17.
Figure 4 shows a detail from the deflectable head assembly 16 of Figure 3, illustrating a problem which arises in operation. Normally the bi-morph leaf 17 is not deflected and so the gap of the video head 9 is presented perpendicularly to the surface of the video tape 1. In other words, the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 is aligned with the surface of the video tape 1. However, when the bi-morph leaf is deflected to an extreme position as indicated in broken lines in Figure 4, the magnetic gap of the video head 9 is no longer presented perpendicularly to the surface of the video tape 1, that is to say the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 is no longer aligned with the surface of the video tape 1 but is at an angle to the surface of the video tape 1, with subsequent detriment to the quality of the signal reproduced by the video head 9.
An embodiment of deflectable head assembly according to the invention will now be described firstly referring to Figure 5. In the embodiment, the video head 9 is mounted on a deflectable head assembly 21 comprising a pair of parallel-aligned bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 spaced apart by a spacer 24 and secured together with a cover member 25 to the body of the rotatable drum 5 by a screw 26. Secured to the free end of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 is a self-deflectable head mounting member 27 to which the video head 9 is attached. The head mounting member 27 includes a rigid block portion 28 and an elastic portion comprising two elastic plates 29 respectively rigidly secured to the bi-morph leavès 22 and 23. When the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected by the application of a control signal thereto, the elastic plates 29 are deflected in the opposite direction, because the respective elastic plates 29 are rigidly secured to the rigid block portion 28 and to the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23. This is indicated in broken lines in Figure 6, and the effect of this self-deflecting action of the head mounting member 27 is to maintain the magnetic gap of the video head 9 in substantially perpendicular relation to the surface of the video tape 1.
In other words, the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 remains aligned with the surface of the video tape 1 when the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected in response to the control signal supplied by a control signal generator 30.
Figure 7 shows an experimental bending curve of an example of the deflectable head assembly 21. In Figures 6 and 7 the dirnensions A, B and C
llS3110 respectively represent the lengthwise dimensions of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23, of the elastic plates 29, and of the rigid block portion 28. In Figure 7 the abscissae represent distance in the lengthwise direction of the deflectable head assembly 21 and ordinates represent distances in microns measured from the normal position of the top surface of the bi-morph leaf 22 and the head mounting base 27. Thus this distance or deflection is zero where the bi-morph leaf 22 meets the rotary support on which it is mounted, and the maximum deflection, that is to say the deflection of the video head 9 is approximately 280 microns. It will be noted that the shape of the curve in Figure 7 corresponds to the deflected shape of the deflectable head assembly 21 in Figure 6 and indicates that the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 remains aligned with the surface of the video tape 1 when the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected.
ln the particular experiment represented in Figure 7 the dimensions A, B and C were 18, 2 and 1.5 millimetres respectively, and an alternating current of amplitude 200 volts and frequency 60 Hz was applied to the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23, so that the deflectable head assembly 21 vibrated at 60 Hz.
Figure 8 shows a possible construction of the deflectable head assembly 21 in more detail. In particular, the shapes of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are such that the outer two-thirds or so of their length, that is to say the portions of their lengths extending beyond the cover member 25 are of trapezoidal shape in plan, the two opposite edges being inclined inwards at the same angle. The head mounting member 27 is formed of a resilient material such as carbon fibre material, the elastic plates 29 being secured to the respective bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 by adhesive. The head mounting member 27 may comprise separate elastic plates 29 and rigid block portion 28 secured together by adhesive. Alternatively, a unitary block of material may be built up by stacking a plurality of laminates of carbon fibre material and the final shape of the head mounting member 27 achieved by cutting out material from the block to leave the space between the elastic plate 29.
Figures 9A to 9C show respective further examples of the construction of the head mounting member 27. In Figures 9A and 9B the head mounting member 27 comprises two elastic plates 29 to which is secured a rigid block portion 28 on which the video head 9 is mounted. In Figure 9C the head mounting member 27 comprises two elastic plates 29 1~5311~
which are shaped to receive the video head 9 directly, that is to say without a rigid block portion 28. In each of these three examples it will be noted that the operative portions of the elastic plates 29 extend in the vertical direction, that is to say normal to the length of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23.
Various other modifications are of course possible. Thus in the above-described embodiment the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are piezo-electric ceramic devices which made by stacking two mono-morph leaves.
As an alternative, however, one of the bi-morph leaves 22 or 23 can be replaced by an elastic plate which will of course follow the deflection imposed on the other bi-morph leaf 23 or 22 by the signal from the control signal generator 3û.
This invention relates to rotary transducer head assemblies and more particularly, but not exclusively, to rotary magnetic head assemblies for helical scan video tape recorders (HVTRs).
Recently, automatic head tracking systems have been used in HVTRs.
Such head tracking systems use a deflectable magnetic head mounting assembly on which a video magnetic head is mounted, and the assembly can be controlled so that the magnetic head scans a video tape at different angles relative to the length of the video tape. Control of the angle is necessary to keep the magnetic head in accurate alignment with a track to be reproduced, most especially when the video tape is transported at a speed other than the normal reproduction speed or even when the video tape is stopped for the purpose of still mode reproduction. Thus, such an assembly permits maintenance of the required scan angle during so-called special reproduction modes, such as still, slow, fast and even reverse reproduction, but nevertheless there is a problem with such assemblies. This problem arises because the assembly uses a single bi-morph leaf, made for example of piezoelectric ceramic material, one end of the leaf being secured to a rotary member and the magnetic head being secured to the other end of the leaf. The bi-morph leaf arrangement is very simple and so long as the deflection angle of the bi-morph leaf is small, good head-to-tape contact is maintained. However, when a more substanti~al angle of deflection is required, for example when the video tape is being transported at more than twice the normal reproduction speed or is being transported in the reverse direction, the tape-contacting surface of the magnetic head is no longer aligned with the surface of the video tape and there is consequent deterioration in the quality of the reproduced signal.
According to the present invention there is provided a deflectable transducer head mounting assembly comprising:
a first deflectable member;
a second deflectable member mounted on said first deflectable mernber and which deflects in response to deflection of said first deflectable member;
and a transducer head for transducing signals and mounted on said second deflectable member.
1~53110 According to the present invention there is also provided a rotary magnetic head assembly for a helical scan video tape recorder, the assembly comprising:
a tape guide arrangement for guiding a video tape, the arrangement including coaxial rotatable and fixed drums;
a pair of parallel-aligned bi-morph leaves secured to said rotary drum;
a pair of elastic portions fixed on respective free ends of said pair of bi-morph leaves;
a rigid head base portion bridging said pair of elastic portions; and a transducer head mounted on said head base portion.
The invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, throughout which like references designate like elements, and in which:
Figure 1 is a side elevation of a tape guide arrangement;
Figure 2 is a view of a video tape with recording tracks shown thereon;
Figure 3 is a cross-sectional view of part of a previously proposed rotary magnetic head assembly;
Figure 4 shows a detail from Figure 3;
Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view of part of an embodiment of rotary magnetic head assembly according to the invention;
Figure 6 is a detail from Figure 5 indicating the operation;
Figure 7 is a graph for explaining the operàtion of the embodiment of Figures 5 and 6; and Figures 8, 9A, 9B and 9C are enlarged views of modified forms of a part of the embodiment of Figures 5 and 6.
The embodiment to be described will be assumed to form part of an HVTR of the one head omega-wrap type, although the invention is not limited to this application. As is well known, a one inch video tape format called type C is authorized by the SMPTE, and in this format the video tape is wrapped around a tape guide assembly through an angle of 340 degrees.
HVTRs using the type C format include a sync head and a video head for recording and/or reproducing vertical synchronizing signals and the video portions respectively of a television signal. For the purpose of special reproduction modes, that is to say still, slow, fast or reverse reproduction, an additional reproducing video magnetic head is provided, this magnetic ~53110 head having a deflectable mounting. When this additional video head is in operation, only the video portion of the tracks on the video tape are scanned and reproduced, and the sync track portion is not reproduced.
The invention and hence the present description is particularly concerned with the deflectable mounting assembly for such an additional head.
Referring now to Figure 1, a video tape 1 is wrapped around a tape guide arrangement 2, the angle of wrap being approximately 340 degrees and being determined by a pair of tape guides 3 and 4. The tape guide arrangement 2 also includes an upper rotatable drum 5 and a lower fixed drum 6, the rotatable drum 5 being rotated by a motor 7 at sixty revolutions per second in the case of an NTSC television signal or at such other speed as is appropriate to the television signal being handled, which speed may for example be fifty revolutions per second for a PAL television signal. ln Figure 1 the rotating direction of the rotatable drum 5 and the normal tape transport direction are indicated by arrows A and B, respectively. In the periphery of the rotatable drum 5 there is provided a head window 8 through which projects a video head 9 to contact the video tape 1.
Figure 2 shows a pattern of video recording tracks 10, 11 and 12 on the video tape 1, and also a head scanning locus 15. If it is assumed that the video tape 1 is being transported in the normal direction at the normal reproducing speed, then the video head 9 may scan the track 11. On the other hand, when the video tape 1 is stopped, the video head 9 may follow the head scanning locus 15 which starts on the track 11, crosses the guard band between the tracks 11 and 10 and finishes on the track 10. Clearly this results in unsatisfactory reproduction, and to counteract this the video head 9 is constrained to move at a smaller scanning angle relative to the length of the video tape 1, by control of a deflectable head assembly on which the video head 9 is mounted, so that the video head 9 merely scans the track 11 as before.
An example of such a previously-proposed deflectable head assembly 16 is shown in Figure 3, wherein the video head 9 is mounted at the free end of a bi-morph leaf 17. The bi-morph leaf 17 is secured to the rotatable drum 5 together with a cover member 18 by a screw 19. Disposed between the cover member 18 and the body of the rotatable drum 5 so as resiliently to grip the bi-morph leaf 17 is a rubber block 2~ for damping the vibration of the bi-morph leaf 17.
Figure 4 shows a detail from the deflectable head assembly 16 of Figure 3, illustrating a problem which arises in operation. Normally the bi-morph leaf 17 is not deflected and so the gap of the video head 9 is presented perpendicularly to the surface of the video tape 1. In other words, the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 is aligned with the surface of the video tape 1. However, when the bi-morph leaf is deflected to an extreme position as indicated in broken lines in Figure 4, the magnetic gap of the video head 9 is no longer presented perpendicularly to the surface of the video tape 1, that is to say the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 is no longer aligned with the surface of the video tape 1 but is at an angle to the surface of the video tape 1, with subsequent detriment to the quality of the signal reproduced by the video head 9.
An embodiment of deflectable head assembly according to the invention will now be described firstly referring to Figure 5. In the embodiment, the video head 9 is mounted on a deflectable head assembly 21 comprising a pair of parallel-aligned bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 spaced apart by a spacer 24 and secured together with a cover member 25 to the body of the rotatable drum 5 by a screw 26. Secured to the free end of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 is a self-deflectable head mounting member 27 to which the video head 9 is attached. The head mounting member 27 includes a rigid block portion 28 and an elastic portion comprising two elastic plates 29 respectively rigidly secured to the bi-morph leavès 22 and 23. When the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected by the application of a control signal thereto, the elastic plates 29 are deflected in the opposite direction, because the respective elastic plates 29 are rigidly secured to the rigid block portion 28 and to the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23. This is indicated in broken lines in Figure 6, and the effect of this self-deflecting action of the head mounting member 27 is to maintain the magnetic gap of the video head 9 in substantially perpendicular relation to the surface of the video tape 1.
In other words, the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 remains aligned with the surface of the video tape 1 when the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected in response to the control signal supplied by a control signal generator 30.
Figure 7 shows an experimental bending curve of an example of the deflectable head assembly 21. In Figures 6 and 7 the dirnensions A, B and C
llS3110 respectively represent the lengthwise dimensions of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23, of the elastic plates 29, and of the rigid block portion 28. In Figure 7 the abscissae represent distance in the lengthwise direction of the deflectable head assembly 21 and ordinates represent distances in microns measured from the normal position of the top surface of the bi-morph leaf 22 and the head mounting base 27. Thus this distance or deflection is zero where the bi-morph leaf 22 meets the rotary support on which it is mounted, and the maximum deflection, that is to say the deflection of the video head 9 is approximately 280 microns. It will be noted that the shape of the curve in Figure 7 corresponds to the deflected shape of the deflectable head assembly 21 in Figure 6 and indicates that the tape-contacting surface of the video head 9 remains aligned with the surface of the video tape 1 when the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are deflected.
ln the particular experiment represented in Figure 7 the dimensions A, B and C were 18, 2 and 1.5 millimetres respectively, and an alternating current of amplitude 200 volts and frequency 60 Hz was applied to the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23, so that the deflectable head assembly 21 vibrated at 60 Hz.
Figure 8 shows a possible construction of the deflectable head assembly 21 in more detail. In particular, the shapes of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are such that the outer two-thirds or so of their length, that is to say the portions of their lengths extending beyond the cover member 25 are of trapezoidal shape in plan, the two opposite edges being inclined inwards at the same angle. The head mounting member 27 is formed of a resilient material such as carbon fibre material, the elastic plates 29 being secured to the respective bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 by adhesive. The head mounting member 27 may comprise separate elastic plates 29 and rigid block portion 28 secured together by adhesive. Alternatively, a unitary block of material may be built up by stacking a plurality of laminates of carbon fibre material and the final shape of the head mounting member 27 achieved by cutting out material from the block to leave the space between the elastic plate 29.
Figures 9A to 9C show respective further examples of the construction of the head mounting member 27. In Figures 9A and 9B the head mounting member 27 comprises two elastic plates 29 to which is secured a rigid block portion 28 on which the video head 9 is mounted. In Figure 9C the head mounting member 27 comprises two elastic plates 29 1~5311~
which are shaped to receive the video head 9 directly, that is to say without a rigid block portion 28. In each of these three examples it will be noted that the operative portions of the elastic plates 29 extend in the vertical direction, that is to say normal to the length of the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23.
Various other modifications are of course possible. Thus in the above-described embodiment the bi-morph leaves 22 and 23 are piezo-electric ceramic devices which made by stacking two mono-morph leaves.
As an alternative, however, one of the bi-morph leaves 22 or 23 can be replaced by an elastic plate which will of course follow the deflection imposed on the other bi-morph leaf 23 or 22 by the signal from the control signal generator 3û.
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1. A rotary magnet-c head assembly for a helical scan video tape recorder, comprising:
a tape guide arrangement including coaxial rotatable and fixed drum portions, and means for helically guiding a video tape about said drum portions;
a pair of substantially parallel bi-morph leaves each secured, at one end, to said rotary drum portion and being both deflect-able in the same direction in response to the application of a control signal thereto;
a transducer head; and a deflectable member carrying said head and being con-nected to the opposite free ends of said bi-morph leaves, said deflectable member having at least portions thereof which are elastically flexible and located between said free ends of the bi-morph leaves and said head to deflect in response to deflec-tion of said bi-morph leaves for maintaining said head in proper contacting relation to the tape guided about said drum portions.
a tape guide arrangement including coaxial rotatable and fixed drum portions, and means for helically guiding a video tape about said drum portions;
a pair of substantially parallel bi-morph leaves each secured, at one end, to said rotary drum portion and being both deflect-able in the same direction in response to the application of a control signal thereto;
a transducer head; and a deflectable member carrying said head and being con-nected to the opposite free ends of said bi-morph leaves, said deflectable member having at least portions thereof which are elastically flexible and located between said free ends of the bi-morph leaves and said head to deflect in response to deflec-tion of said bi-morph leaves for maintaining said head in proper contacting relation to the tape guided about said drum portions.
2. A rotary magnetic head assembly according to claim 1; wherein said deflectable member includes a pair of elastic plates defining said elastically flexible portions and respectively extending from said free ends of the bi-morph leaves, and a rigid block portion secured to said elastic plates with said transducer head being mounted on said rigid block portion.
3. A rotary magnetic head assembly according to claim 2; wherein said elastic plates are of a carbon fiber material.
4. A rotary magnetic head assembly according to claim 2; wherein said elastic relates extend generally in the longitudinal direction of said bi-morph leaves beyond said free ends of the latter.
5. A rotary magnetic head assembly according to claim 1; wherein said deflectable member includes an elastic element having end portions secured to said free ends of the bi-morph leaves, and a connecting portion extending substantially normal to the lengths of said bi-morph leaves and having said head mounted thereon.
6. A deflectable transducer head assembly according to claim 5; wherein said deflectable member further includes a rigid block element carrying said head and being secured to said connecting portion of the elastic element.
7. A deflectable transducer head assembly according to claim 5; wherein said head is affixed directly to said con-necting portion of the elastic element.
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