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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:
May. 06, 1997
Filed:
Jul. 11, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G03B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242347 ; 2423453 ; 242346 ; 360132 ;
Abstract
A tape cassette comprising a cassette casing composed of an upper half casing and a lower half casing, a pair of hubs around which a magnetic tape is wound and which are rotatably fitted into circular peripheral walls formed in the cassette casing, and tape guide members formed in the cassette casing at positions through which the magnetic tape wound around the hubs is traveled, wherein the thickness of the flat surface walls and the thickness of the outer peripheral walls of the upper and lower half casings are respectively uniform.