MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD ARRAY WITH STAGGERED HEAD ARRANGEMENT

摘要

MAGNETIC RECORDING HEAD ARRAY FOR LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC PRINTING WITH STAGGERED HEAD ARRANGEMENT AND CLUSTERED WIRING A magnetic recording head array for printing onto a transfer magnetic recording medium which prints magnetic material onto a medium such as paper includes staggered arrays of magnetic print heads. The heads are in diagonally staggered parallel arrays tilted away from the vertical. Each array in a group of several arrays is also staggered in the vertical direction as well as the longitudinal direction. Preferably, the heads or other bistable elements are wired in clusters with the heads or other elements in the cluster being coupled to the same actuator wires in a half-select type of wiring arrangement. The difference in the wiring of the elements will reside in the sense of the signal as applied to the elements by means such as reversing the helical winding about a core or the Like. In the manufacture of the array, the horizontal wiring lines for actuating arrays are in the form of straight lines.