US 7,478,410 B2
Transmitting mechanism of information recording/reproducing apparatus
Bin-Hai Guo, Shenzhen (China); Chien-Ting Lo, Tu-Cheng (Taiwan); and Li-Ming Wan, Shenzhen (China)
Assigned to Hong Fu Jin Precision Industry (ShenZhen) Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, Guangdong Province (China); and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., Tu-Cheng, Taipei Hsien (Taiwan)
Filed on Nov. 18, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/283,267.
Claims priority of application No. 2004 2 0095591 U (CN), filed on Nov. 18, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2006/0107277 A1, May 18, 2006
Int. Cl. G11B 7/085 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 720—676 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transmitting mechanism of an information recording/reproducing apparatus, comprising:
a pickup carriage;
two guide rods, the pickup carriage being movably supported by the guide rods;
a feeding screw having an upside and a downside, the upside and the downside of the feeding screw being determined relative to an operational state of the information recording/reproducing apparatus;
a feeding motor configured for rotating the feeding screw;
an engaging member including a fixed portion and an engaging portion, the fixed portion being fixed on the pickup carriage, the engaging portion engaging with the feeding screw on the downside of the feeding screw; and
a leaf spring comprising a fixed end being fixed on the pickup carriage along with the fixed portion of the engaging member, and a free end pressing the engaging portion of the engaging member towards the upside of the feeding screw.