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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eiji Ohshima, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsuhiro Kumagai, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360128 ;
Abstract
Very small grains (103) are attached to a cleaning roller (100) made of a porous and flexible material such as a polyurethane foam or the like. In a magnetic head cleaning apparatus in which the cleaning roller that is brought in rotatable contact with a rotary head drum on which a magnetic head for recording and/or reproducing a magnetic tape is mounted to thereby clean the magnetic head, even adhesive alien substances that cannot be removed in the prior art can be removed with ease.