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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2005
Taizo Fukuda, Miyagi, JP;
Taizo Fukuda, Miyagi, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic tape cartridge which includes a single tape reel on which magnetic tape is wound on the outer peripheral surface of a reel hub thereof, rotatably housed in the inside of a cartridge case; and a reel lock member for inhibiting the rotation of the tape reel, provided movably in an axial direction of the tape reel between a lock position and a lock release position, in the inside of the reel hub; wherein a position restriction rib opposed to the outer periphery of the reel lock member for restricting an axial deviation of the reel lock member from the axial position of the tape reel is formed discontinuously with the inner peripheral surface of the reel hub on the top surface of the bottom of the reel hub in the inside of the reel hub.