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Note(s)
    This subclass covers:[7]
      recording or playback of information by relative movement between a record track and a transducer, the transducer directly producing, or being directly actuated by, modulation in the track being recorded or played-back, and the extent of modulation corresponding to the signal being recorded or played-back;apparatus and machines for recording or playback, and parts thereof, such as heads;record carriers for use with such apparatus and machines;associated working of other apparatus with such apparatus and machines.
    In this subclass, the following terms or expressions are used with the meanings indicated:
      "record carrier" means a body, such as a cylinder, disc, card, tape, or wire, capable of permanently holding information, which can be read-off by a sensing element movable relatively to the record carrier;"head" includes any means for converting sinusoidal or non-sinusoidal electric wave-forms into variations of the physical condition of at least the adjacent surface of the record carrier, or vice versa;"near-field interaction" means a very short distance interaction using scanning-probe techniques, e.g. quasi- contact or evanescent contact between head and record carrier.
    Attention is drawn to the Notes following the titles of class B81 and subclass B81B relating to "microstructural devices" and "microstructural systems".

Subclass indexes

RECORDING OF ONE TYPE ASSOCIATED WITH REPRODUCING MEANS OF THE SAME TYPE

Of mechanical type

3/00

Of magnetical type

5/00

Of optical type

7/00

Of another type

9/00

RECORDING OF ONE TYPE AND ASSOCIATED REPRODUCING MEANS OF DIFFERENT TYPE

11/00

SIMULTANEOUS OR SELECTIVE RECORDING OF DIFFERENT TYPES; ASSOCIATED SIMULTANEOUS OR SELECTIVE REPRODUCING MEANS

13/00

SIGNAL PROCESSING NOT SPECIFIC TO THE METHOD OF RECORDING OR REPRODUCING

20/00

APPARATUS CHARACTERISED BY THE SHAPE OF THE RECORD CARRIER

25/00

DETAILS; GENERAL FEATURES

Starting, stopping, driving

15/00, 19/00

Guiding

17/00

HEADS; RECORD CARRIERS

21/00; 23/00

ASSOCIATED WORKING WITH OTHER APPARATUS

31/00

EDITING, INDEXING, SYNCHRONISING, MONITORING

27/00

MANUFACTURING

3/70, 5/84, 7/26

OTHER CONSTRUCTIONAL PARTS, DETAILS OR ACCESSORIES

33/00