Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Fujifilm Corporation

Wataru Iino

Kazuo Hiraguchi

Shozo Onmori

Yusuke Ishihara

A structure to be grasped in which a member can be grasped by a pair of grasping portions having respective grasping recesses of the same shape. A clutch member has rotation-limiting ribs and seating ribs formed on and projecting from a clutch body, and each set of a rotation-limiting rib and a seating rib are arranged on an imaginary straight line L. When a pair of chuck members of a grasping device are moved away from each other along an imaginary straight line Lcoinciding with the imaginary straight line L, the clutch member is grasped by the pair of chuck members. Although the rotation-limiting ribs and the seating ribs are different in shape from each other in order to meet their respective functional requirements, chucked portions of the rotation-limiting rib and seating rib, for fitting into the respective grasping recesses of the chuck members, have substantially the same shape.

Structure to be grasped

A magnetic tape cassette includes a case that is formed by joining an upper half and a lower half, one or more tape reels, a window and a reel urging member having a tape reel contacting portion which contacts an upper part of the tape reel(s), bent arms connected to opposite sides of the tape reel contacting portion and sliding end portions provided at distal ends of the bent arm. A slide groove is provided in an inner surface of a perimeter of a window opening in the upper half and a window member has hold-and-retain portions which hold the sliding end portions in cooperation with a bottom surface of the slide groove into which the sliding end portions have been fitted. A tape reel suitable for use with the magnetic tape cassette, a resinous leaf spring and its production process are also provided. Tape reels housed in a cassette case can be urged toward the lower half by a member whose structure is simple and permits easy fitting and removal. Assorted collection of constituent materials, particularly for assorted collection of resin materials and selective collection of resin materials as separate from metal materials are possible.

Magnetic tape cassettes

Various types of recording cartridges, each of which has a case which rotatably accommodates a reel on which a recording tape is wound, are provided with grasped portions with concave portions at side walls of the case and which a grasping device of a same, external library with accommodating chambers can grasp from both sides. A height from a floor surface of the accommodating chamber to the grasped portions when the cartridge is accommodated in the accommodating chamber of the library is made to be the same regardless of a type of the recording tape cartridge, and an interval between a pair of corner portions of the grasped portions, which corner portions are near a removal opening of the library, are made to be the same regardless of the cartridge type. A pair of corner portions of the grasped portions, which corner portions are deeper in the library, are chamfered.

Structure for holding recording tape cartridge and method of manufacturing said structure

A tape cartridge includes a case, which is made of a lower case and an upper case, for accommodating a reel wound with a magnetic tape. The lower case includes a bottom surface disposed with two positioning holes formed separately from each other on a straight line orthogonal to a direction in which the tape cartridge is loaded into a drive device. The lower case also includes a front wall disposed with two surfaces for regulating a depth to which the case is loaded in the drive device. The two surfaces are positioned on straight lines that pass along the loading direction through the center of the positioning holes when seen from below. Positioning pins of the drive device are inserted into the positioning holes when regulating protrusions of the drive device abut against the two surfaces to regulate the depth to which the case is loaded.

Recording tape cartridge and drive device thereof

In a recording tape cartridge, a reel has a reel hub around which a magnetic tape is wound. An annular reel gear is formed at an outer surface of a bottom portion of the reel hub. Rotation of the reel is impeded by a braking member engaging with an engaging gear formed at an inner surface of the bottom portion. When a clutch member is pressed by a rotating shaft of a drive device, the clutch member is guided by rotation restricting ribs which are engaged with rotation restricting grooves such that relative rotation is impossible, and the clutch member moves in an axial direction of the reel and cancels engagement of the braking member with the engaging gear. A press operation surface and the rotation restricting grooves are positioned further toward a radial direction inner side than the reel gear.

Recording tape cartridge

A recording tape cartridge which can be loaded into a drive device having a reel on which a recording tape is wound and which is rotatably accommodated in a case, the reel including: a resin-formed main portion which includes a reel hub formed in a tubular shape having a floor, the recording tape being wound around an outer peripheral surface of the reel hub; and a substantially disc-shaped metal plate attached firmly to an outer surface of a floor portion of the reel hub, wherein a gate portion, through which a resin material is introduced at the time of molding the main portion, is provided at a radial direction outer side of the metal plate.

The recording tape cartridge includes a case body formed by joining together an upper half and a lower half and a tape reel around which a recording tape is wound. The cartridge further includes a lid covering a front side of the case body, and a reel lock member which has a braking claw to be engaged with an engagement tooth provided on a flange of the tape reel and which is adapted to slide with rotation of the lid. Ribs nip the reel lock member so as to perform positional regulation, and a sliding reel lock member urging device urges the reel lock member so as to engage the braking claw with the engagement tooth. A reel lock releasing member urges the reel lock member with rotation of the lid so as to release the engagement.

Recording tape cartridge with reel lock member

The present invention provides a recording tape cartridge comprising: a rectangular case having, at a corner portion, an opening for pulling-out of one end of a recording tape, and accommodating the recording tape; and a cover member which opens and closes the opening. The opening is formed by cutting-off the corner portion of the rectangular case, and when the cover member at least opens the opening, the cover member is accommodated within the case.

In this recording media cartridge, a reel around which a recording medium is wound is rotatably received within a case body constituted by coupling upper and lower halves in a face-to-face relationship, the reel is urged toward the lower half by a planar reel presser spring supported on an inner surface of the upper half as in a cantilever, and the reel presser spring is detachably mounted on the inner surface of the upper half, so that the reel presser spring can be collected without damaging components of the cartridge such as the case body, the reel presser spring and a reel lock member. As a result, in this cartridge, the waste materials can be reduced and the impact on the environment can be reduced. The cartridge is effective when different materials are sorted, and the disassembling work can be simplified.

Record media cartridge

Magnetic tape cassettes, tape reels for use therewith, resinous leaf springs, and a process for producing them

A recording tape cartridge has a reel accommodated within a case, an engaging portion provided at a floor portion of a reel hub; a braking member provided so as to be unable to rotate within the case, and approaching and moving away from the floor portion of the reel hub, and able to assume a rotation locked position at which the braking member engages with the engaging portion, and a rotation permitted position at which a state of engagement with the engaging portion is cancelled; and a releasing member disposed at an inner side of a guide wall portion provided at the floor portion of the reel hub, and when the reel is rotated, the releasing member holds the braking member at the rotation permitted position while abutting the braking member. The braking member has a tubular wall portion which overlaps with an outer side of the guide wall portion.

The recording media cartridge includes a case body formed from an upper half and a lower half, a recording medium which is rotatably accommodated in the case body, an upper engagement portion arranged in the upper half, a lower engagement portion arranged in the lower half in correspondence with the upper engagement portion and a locking member which engages the upper engagement portion with the lower engagement portion. The lower engagement portion and the upper engagement portion are engaged with each other by the locking member whereby the upper half and the lower half are coupled with each other.

Recording media cartridge having a locking member for body halves

A recording tape cartridge in which a reel includes a reel gear and an engaging gear. The reel gear is formed in an annular shape at an outer face of a base portion of a reel hub. The engaging gear is formed in an annular shape at an inner face of the base portion. Magnetic tape is wound onto an outer periphery of the reel hub. A braking member is engaged with the engaging gear by an urging force and prevents the reel from rotating. A clutch member opposes a gear aperture at a radial direction inner side relative to the reel gear. An operationally pushed surface of the clutch member is pushed by a releasing surface of a drive device and the brake member is lifted, whereby rotation of the reel is enabled.

A recording tape cartridge comprises: a case which is substantially rectangular, and at which an upper case and a lower case are joined together with peripheral walls thereof abutting one another, and which rotatably accommodates a single reel on which a recording tape is wound; and an opening formed at a corner portion of the case at a side of loading the case into a drive device, the opening being for pulling out of a leader member attached to an end portion of the recording tape. Concave portions, which extend over the upper case and the lower case and which are isosceles trapezoidal in plan view, are formed at a peripheral wall of the case at the side of loading the case into the drive device. In accordance with this structure, a peripheral wall, whose end portion is a free end due to an opening being formed, can be reinforced, and thereby a deterioration in strength of the peripheral wall can be prevented.

A recording tape cartridge comprising: a rectangular case having, at a corner portion, an opening for pulling-out of one end of a recording tape, and accommodating the recording tape; and a cover member which opens and closes the opening. The opening is formed by cutting-off the corner portion of the rectangular case, and when the cover member at least opens the opening, the cover member is accommodated within the case.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Wataru Iino