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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2003
Filed:
May. 16, 2001
Guttorm Rudi, Fiellhamar, NO;
Joerne Magne Raastad, Oslo, NO;
O-Mass AS, Oslo, NO;
Abstract
In a recording tape cartridge, and a drive unit therefor, for extremely wide magnetic recording tape, the recording tape cartridge has a housing containing two tape hubs each rotationally mounted in the housing with the magnetic recording tape wound thereon in respective tape packs, so that the tape can be wound and unwound between the two hubs in a tape transport direction, thereby resulting in an increase in the diameter of the tape pack on one of the hubs. The housing is composed of housing parts which are movable relative to each other in a direction perpendicular to the tape transport direction to expand the housing in the direction perpendicular to the direction of tape transport, to accommodate the increase in the diameter of the tape pack.