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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. 07, 2002
Filed:
May. 08, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/302 ;
Abstract
A cartridge including a housing which holds a tape medium or disk medium and which is composed of upper and lower casings. The two casings are joined with screws in bosses formed at their four corners. The cartridge is characterized in that the bosses in at least one of the upper and lower casings have ends with partially different heights each so that, when the upper and lower casings are joined, their bosses come in contact with one another before the sidewalls of the in casings are mated.