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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:
Sep. 18, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey S. Thiessen, Champlin, MN (US);
John M. Enga, Rogers, MN (US);
Assignee:
Geneva Group of Companies, Inc., Minneapolis, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/41 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/41 ;
Abstract
A cleaning cartridge for cleaning a reciprocating read/write head of a tape drive. The cartridge includes a cleaning tape and cleaning segments that cooperate to clean the tape contacting surface and the air-bleed slots of a read/write head as it moves thereagainst. The cleaning segments are preferably mounted on a carrier that may be displaced to accommodate different models of tape drives having various read/write head projection depths, and which may include a resilient member for urging the cleaning segments towards the read/write head with a predetermined amount of force.