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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:
Feb. 10, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 01, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hiroyuki Takada, Fujisawa, JP;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 85 ;
Abstract
A tape loading mechanism is designed for an apparatus operating on a magnetic tape at least partially in a tape cassette and including a rotary drum. In the tape loading mechanism, first tape guides move to draw a portion of the magnetic tape from the tape cassette. In addition, second tape guides move to wrap the magnetic-tape portion, which is drawn from the tape casette, in a helix around the rotary drum. The first tape guides and the second tape guides cooperate with each other to hold substantially constant a length of the magnetic-tape portion which is drawn from the tape cassette.