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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:
Apr. 15, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
TDK Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/3027 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 2/3027 ;
Abstract
In a housing for tape cartridge which holds therein a tape reel on which a medium in the form of a tape is wound, an outer surface portion of a side wall, out of surrounding walls, of the housing facing the direction of cartridge insertion into a recording-reproducing apparatus has a draft of zero degree where it comes in contact with positioning means of the apparatus. In a mold for forming the housing, a mold portion that forms an outer surface portion of a side wall, out of surrounding walls, of the housing facing the direction of cartridge insertion into a recording-reproducing apparatus, is constituted by a slide having a plane perpendicular to the direction of insertion.