Hewlett-packard Company

Sony Corporation

George Clifford

Richard H Henze

Charles H McConica

Bruce F Spenner

Toshiro Ohta

A disk-drive-compatible magnetic tape cartridge is provided with a tape guide for accurately positioning a magnetic tape in relation to a disk drive head. The tape guide includes a positioning section to be aligned with a rotation axis of a center core assembly when the center core assembly is chucked on a turntable of the disk drive. The tape guide also includes a guide section defining a tape run path across the disk drive head. The guide section is formed integrally with the section to be aligned with the center core assembly and so distanced from the latter as to accurately position the magnetic tape with respect to the disk drive head. Since the tape guide has the positioning section and guide section integrally, the distance therebetween can be maintained precisely constant. Therefore, tracking by the disk drive head becomes easier to allow high-density recording.

Disk drive compatible tape cartridge with device for positioning the

A tape cartridge adapted to utilize the read/write head(s) in a disc drive to read data from and/or write data to the tape. The tape cartridge has a section A having a size and shape which enables it to be inserted into the disc drive to locate a portion of the tape at a location L suitable for transferring data with the disc drive head(s). The tape cartridge includes: tape media; a means to register the tape media with respect to the read/write head(s) of a disc drive; a means for storing that portion of the tape media which is not contained within section A; and a means for feeding the tape media past the read/write head(s) in the disc drive. The tape cartridge may include a linkage that enables it to utilize the disc drive spindle motor to feed the tape. The linkage can also include a clutch to enable tape feed direction to be reversed.

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Los Altos Hills, CA, United States of America

George Clifford