US 7,587,727 B2
Pickup device
Hajime Iizuka, Tatebayasi (Japan); Yasuhito Kojima, Isesaki (Japan); and Koichi Takezawa, Osato-gun (Japan)
Assigned to Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka (Japan)
Filed on Apr. 07, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/100,920.
Claims priority of application No. 2004-115380 (JP), filed on Apr. 09, 2004; and application No. 2004-362436 (JP), filed on Dec. 15, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2005/0229196 A1, Oct. 13, 2005
Int. Cl. G11B 17/03 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 720—652 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pickup device, comprising:
a flexible circuit member including a main circuit portion on which an electric or electronic component is mounted, and a sub-circuit portion connected to the main circuit portion; and
a housing on which the flexible circuit member is mounted, wherein
the main circuit portion has a single-sided structure and includes a ground portion;
the sub-circuit portion has a single-sided structure and includes a ground portion;
the main circuit portion includes a component-mounting segment on which the electric or electronic component is mounted;
the component-mounting segment comprises a first component-mounting segment on which a first electric or electronic component is mounted;
the ground portion of the sub-circuit portion includes a first planar segment provided corresponding to the first component-mounting segment;
the component-mounting segment further comprises a second component-mounting segment on which a second electric or electronic component is mounted;
the ground portion of the sub-circuit portion further includes a second planar segment provided corresponding to the second component-mounting segment;
the sub-circuit portion is folded with respect to the main circuit portion, and the flexible circuit member is mounted on the housing while the main circuit portion and the sub-circuit portion are held in an overlapping arrangement; and
the first component-mounting segment is folded with respect to the second component-mounting segment while the first planar segment is placed in an overlapping arrangement with the second planar segment.