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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:
Jan. 30, 1996
Filed:
Oct. 04, 1993
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system including a magnetic-tape cassette and a magnetic-tape apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information in digital form on/from a magnetic tape. The information is stored in a plurality of parallel longitudinal tracks on the magnetic tape in successive information blocks in the longitudinal direction of the magnetic tape. The tape apparatus includes an error correction device for correcting read errors in the digital information read from the magnetic tape. The error-correction device is capable of correcting a maximum number of n successive information blocks on the magnetic tape. The magnetic-tape cassette has at least one tape-cleaning element having an active surface in contact with a coating side of the magnetic tape and, in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the magnetic tape, has a dimension smaller than the overall longitudinal dimension of two times n information blocks. As a result, the error correction device is capable of at least substantially correcting read errors which occur as a result of soiling of the magnetic tape by the tape-cleaning element.
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