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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 1987
Filed:
Nov. 08, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360132 ; 242199 ;
Abstract
A tape cassette including a housing of two sections joined with a magnetic tape inside has in its front wall a center opening for magnetic head and two openings for capstan insertion, each housing section having a U-shaped guide joined to a partition behind one capstan opening. In each housing section the U-shaped guide has a pair of guide ribs formed on the opening side and having a height greater than the tape width, and a wall supporting the rear portions of the guide ribs and partitions formed at the rear of the center opening and the other opening are all formed to a height about half that of the guide ribs.