Information storage apparatus
An information storage apparatus includes a housing; a recording medium in which information is recorded, disposed in the housing; a head that records/reproduces information onto/from the recording medium by making contact with or approaching to a surface of the recording medium; a head holding member for holding the head, being rotatable about a predetermined axis and moving the head along the recording medium; a driving section that drives the head holding member to rotate about the axis; a rotation restricting member disposed in a position where the head holding member collides, and that restricts a rotation area of the head holding member; a temperature change detecting section that detects temperature change in the housing; and a drive controlling section that causes the driving section to drive the head holding member to collide with the rotation restricting member, when a detection result by the temperature change detecting section indicates temperature change.
1. An information storage apparatus comprising:
a housing;
a recording medium that is disposed in the housing and allows information to be recorded thereon;
a head that performs at least one of information reproduction and information recording on the recording medium while being in contact with or being close to a surface of the recording medium;
a head holding member that is disposed in the housing, holds the head, is rotatable about a predetermined axis, and moves the head along the recording medium by rotating about the axis;
a driving section that drives the head holding member to rotate about the axis;
a rotation restricting member that is disposed in a position where the head holding member collides with the rotation restricting member by rotating about the axis, and that restricts a rotation area of the head holding member;
a temperature change detecting section that detects temperature change in the housing; and
a drive controlling section that causes the driving section to drive the head holding member to collide with the rotation restricting member, when a detection result by the temperature change detecting section indicates temperature change reaching a predetermined change range.
2. The information storage apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a vibration detecting section that detects vibration generated in the housing resulting from collision of the head holding member with the rotation restricting member; and
a deformation release judging section that judges whether deformation in the housing is released by the collision of the head holding member with the rotation restricting member, by analyzing the vibration detected by the vibration detecting section, wherein
when the release judging section judges that the deformation is not released, the drive controlling section causes the driving section to drive the head holding member again to rotate until the head holding member collides with the rotation restricting member at a higher rotation speed than that in the previous collision.
3. The information storage apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the drive controlling section causes the driving section to drive the head holding member to collide with the rotation restricting member at a constant rotation speed a plurality of times, when the detection result by the temperature change detecting section indicates temperature change reaching the predetermined change range, and
the deformation release judging section judges that the deformation is released when the magnitude of vibration caused by a certain one of the plurality of collisions performed at the constant rotation speed is larger than that caused by another collision performed after the certain collision.
4. The information storage apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature change detecting section detects temperature change that occurs after deformation in the housing is released by a prior collision of the head holding member with the rotation restricting member.
5. The information storage apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the temperature change detecting section detects temperature change that occurs after deformation in the housing is released by a prior collision of the head holding member with the rotation restricting member, and
the drive controlling section causes the driving section to drive the head holding member to collide with the rotation restricting member, when the detection result by the temperature change detecting section indicates any one of a temperature increase reaching a predetermined increase range and a temperature decrease reaching a predetermined decrease range.