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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2002
Seung-woo Lee, Suwon, KR;
Bong-joo Kim, Suwon, KR;
Do-young Choi, Suwon, KR;
Jae-hoon Sim, Suwon, KR;
Young-ho Cho, Suwon, KR;
Jeong-hyeob Oh, Anyang, KR;
Hyeong-seok Choi, Suwon, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
A tape guide device for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a pole base assembly to guide a tape supplied from a supply reel and passed through a predetermined path to be moved horizontally to a read surface of a head drum. The pole base assembly includes a pole base installed adjacently to or separately from one side of the head drum during a loading/unloading operation of the tape. The pole base assembly also includes a pole unit including a spiral flange inclined to the pole base to be in a horizontal direction to the read surface of the head drum, to guide the tape entering the head drum to be inclined at a predetermined angle and positioned in the horizontal direction to the read surface.