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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2003
Yasuaki Kano, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Mitani, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Yoshizawa, Saitama, JP;
Toshiya Kurokawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Yasuaki Kano, Kanagawa, JP;
Atsushi Mitani, Tokyo, JP;
Masaki Yoshizawa, Saitama, JP;
Toshiya Kurokawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a tape drive apparatus enabled to directly and accurately detect dew condensation on a rotary head drum. Tape serving as a recording medium is drawn out of a cartridge. The drawn tape runs in such a way as to be wound on a tape takeup reel provided in a tape drive apparatus body. Signals are recorded on and reproduced from the tape by winding the drawn tape around the rotary head drum. This tape drive apparatus has a prethreading mechanism that brings the tape into slight contact with the rotary head drum before the tape is completely wound therearound. Dew condensation on the rotary head drum is detected by rotating the rotary head drum during a status in which the tape is brought by the prethreading mechanism into contact with the rotary head drum.