Stylus for reproducing capacitive videodisc

摘要

A reproducing stylus traces a track of a recording medium, in which track an information signal is recorded as variations of geometrical shape, and reproduces as variations in capacitance the information signal thus recorded. The reproducing stylus comprises a reproducing stylus main structure having a tip part with a flat sliding contact face for slidingly contacting at least one track of the recording medium at a time, and an electrode secured to the reproducing stylus main structure at the tip part thereof and adapted to trace one track and reproduce the information signal as the variations in capacitance in accordance with the variations in geometrical shape. The electrode has over a specific distance over the tip part of the stylus main structure from the extreme tip thereof, a width in the width direction of the track which is less than the width of the track. The extreme tip of the electrode has a flat or linear tip end contacting the track.