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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:
Mar. 14, 1989
Filed:
Jun. 04, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Frank S Fountain, Wilmington, DE (US);
Donald K Pusey, West Grove, PA (US);
Keith A McCloy, Chillicothe, OH (US);
Assignee:
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 25 ; 358336 ; 324212 ; 360 381 ; 369 53 ; 369 58 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for locating dropouts. Information as to dropouts in a length of tape is stored in memory and then used to compute data as to location of the dropouts. The data is used to position a tape-inspecting instrument such as a microscope over successive dropouts.