Teac Corporation

Hitachi Maxell, Limited

Hitachi Maxwell, Ltd.

Taec Corporation

Hiroshi Ohkubo

Takashi Miyamoto

Yoshimi Maehara

Yoshiaki Sakai

Kazuaki Urano

Yoh Kamei

Mitsuru Hasegawa

Shinzi Umehara

Hirokazu Miyao

Mitsutoshi Kondo

A tape cartridge comprising a housing case which comprises an upper wall and a lower wall both having a pair of holes for receiving driving shafts and a covering plate which covers the holes on the upper wall, the upper and lower sides of which can be clearly identified so that misloading is prevented.

Tape cartridge with an upper case wall cover plate

A method of writing on a two-reel, belt driven, multitrack tape cartridge wherein tape tension increases with the progress of tape transportation from one reel to another. Forward tracks on the tape are predivided into a first group adjacent the tape centerline and a second group adjacent one tape edge, and reverse tracks are similarly predivided into a first and a second group. Writing on each of the first group of forward tracks is started in a position spaced a less distance from the tape beginning than on each of the second group of forward tracks. Writing on each of the first group of reverse tracks is also started in a position spaced a less distance from the tape end than on each of the second group of reverse tracks. Thus the tape offers a greater storage capacity than if, as is conventional in the art, writing on the first groups of forward and reverse tracks is started in the same longitudinal tape position as on the second groups of forward and reverse tracks.

Greater capacity writing method for a belt-driven tape cartridge or the

A tape transport apparatus configuration with a mounting portion, a single moving base, a motor, a pulley, and an urging mechanism. The mounting portion mounts a cartridge having an externally driven roller, and an information recording tape that runs in accordance with a rotational force of the roller. The moving base that has the motor is provided to the side of the roller, in the cartridge mounted to the mounting portion. The pulley is provided to the moving base and is rotationally driven in accordance with rotation of the motor. The urging mechanism acts on the moving base so that the pulley is brought into contact with the roller in the cartridge mounted to the mounting portion, and is pressed against the roller.

Tape transport apparatus having pulley and pulley drive motor provided

A cartridge case having locking notches in both of its side faces is guided by guide rails when it is loaded into an information recording/reproducing apparatus. The cartridge case is locked in its prescribed loaded position by clampers which push the case from both sides thereof. Each clamper has a truncated-cone-shaped roller which is urged by a spring toward the center line of the apparatus and which pushes the insertion-side bottom edge of the locking notch.

Cartridge loading device having side-locking mechanism

A tape driver for use in a tape recorder or similar devices which use a data cartridge provided with a drive roller. The tape driver including a motor unit laterally disposed relative to the data cartridge and an idler located between the motor unit and the drive roller on the data cartridge such that the motor unit rotates the drive roller through the idler. Alternatively, a pulley rotated by the laterally located motor unit is used to directly rotate the drive roller.

Reduced height tape driver

An apparatus for driving an information recording tape housed in a cartridge having a case accommodating a pair of spools rotatable around shafts, the information recording tape wound on the both spools, a drive roller, a rotation transmission mechanism transmitting the rotation of the drive roller to the pair of the spools comprises a cartridge holding mechanism holding the cartridge, a drive motor having a stator and a rotor, the rotor being arranged outside of the stator and covering the stator, the drive motor having a roller member formed of an elastic material provided on an outer circumferential surface of the rotor, and a pressing mechanism pressing the roller member of the drive motor against the drive roller in the cartridge.

Mechanism for loading tape cartridge into tape driving apparatus

Magnetic tape cassette

A cleaning cassette for use in cleaning, with a cleaning stick having a body of cotton or like absorbent material on one end thereof, the magnetic transducer head of an apparatus for data transfer with a magnetic tape cassette. The cleaning cassette has a casing shaped and sized like the tape cassette so as to be loaded in and unloaded from the apparatus through its entrance in the same way as the tape cassette. The cleaning cassette casing has one or more apertures defined in its front side, and a guide passageway for the cleaning stick extends along the front side of the casing. The guide passageway has an entrance end which, when the cleaning cassette is loaded in position in the appearance, is open to the entrance slot of the apparatus. Thus, following the loading of the cleaning cassette in the apparatus, the cleaning stick may be inserted in the guide passageway through the entrance slot of the apparatus and the entrance end of the guide passageway for cleaning the data transfer surface of the transducer head through one of the apertures in the casing.

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Fussa, Japan

Hiroshi Ohkubo