HEAD CLIP AND WORKING METHOD USING THE SAME
A head clip used in a task of assembly, inspection, and maintenance such as repair or cleaning of a device having a head attached to an actuator, and to a working method using the head clip. The heads are located at an extreme end of the actuator. The head clip includes first and second support units inserted into the actuator so as to support suspensions to which the heads are disposed. The first support units are in contact with adjacent suspensions and support them at a first position which is located nearer to the pivoting fulcrum than to the heads in the longitudinal direction of the actuator. The second support units regulate the adjacent suspensions at a second position located at the extreme end, and the heads are disposed between the first position and the second position on the longitudinal direction.
1 . A head clip attached to an actuator having heads at an extreme end thereof opposite to a pivoting fulcrum, comprising:
first and second support units inserted into the actuator so as to support suspensions to which the heads are disposed,
wherein the first support units are in contact with adjacent suspensions and support them at a first position which is located nearer to the pivoting fulcrum than to the heads in the longitudinal direction of the actuator,
the second support units regulate the adjacent suspensions at a second position located at the extreme end, and
the heads are disposed between the first position and the second position on the longitudinal direction.
2 . The head clip according to claim 1 , wherein the heads are disposed on flexures disposed on the suspensions, and the second support units regulate the flexures of the adjacent suspensions at the second position.
3 . The head clip according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a positioning shaft; and
a head fixing arm having a base portion coupled with the positioning shaft and an extreme end coupled with the first and second support units,
wherein the head clip is pivoted with respect to the actuator when the positioning shaft is inserted into a head clip insertion hole formed in the actuator so that the first and second support units are inserted between the adjacent suspensions.
4 . The head clip according to claim 3 , wherein the first and second support units have such shapes that when the head clip is pivoted with respect to the actuator, the first support units are inserted between the adjacent suspensions first and thereafter the second support units are inserted between the adjacent suspensions.
5 . The head clip according to claim 3 , wherein the respective portions of the first support units and the second support units which are inserted between the adjacent suspensions first when the head clip is pivoted with respect to the actuator have a taper shape.
6 . The head clip according to claim 1 , comprising a plurality of pairs of the first and second support units.