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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 1996

Filed:

Jun. 30, 1994
Applicant:
Inventor:

David P Gregg, Culver City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Discovision Associates, Irvine, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 84 ; 369 85 ; 369 83 ; 360 15 ;
Abstract

An optical tape duplicator is disclosed for making multiple copies of recorded optical tape by continuous contact recording. An information-bearing master tape held in intimate contact with an optical tape are passed through a recording zone exposed to a beam of radiant energy for recording information stored by the master tape to the optical tape. The master tape contains transmissive and non-transmissive portions that represent the information stored by the master tape. The optical tape is sensitive to the beam of radiant energy. The beam of radiant energy passes through the transmissive portions of the master tape while making contact with the optical tape in the recording zone, causing information stored by the master tape to be recorded by the optical tape as indicia where the optical tape was exposed to the beam of radiant energy.


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