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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2004
Kosuke Amano, Ibaraki, JP;
Toshiro Nishiwaki, Ibaraki, JP;
Kenji Ota, Ibaraki, JP;
Akihiro Yasui, Ibaraki, JP;
Kosuke Amano, Ibaraki, JP;
Toshiro Nishiwaki, Ibaraki, JP;
Kenji Ota, Ibaraki, JP;
Akihiro Yasui, Ibaraki, JP;
Hitachi Maxell Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A tape cartridge capable of recording and reading out large and small tape cartridges with different widths is provided. The tape cartridge comprises a pair of right and left hubs for winding a tape which is winded off from one hub and is wound around the other hub via tape guides. A passage for light injection and a passage for light ejecting of the tape end detection light are opened respectively on a side wall of a case of a main body facing a tape traveling path between the tape guide and the hub, and an optical path inverted body facing a pair of passages across the tape traveling path is arranged in the case of the main body. One of the passages for light injection and the passages for light ejecting in the large and small tape cartridges is formed at a prescribed distance from the reference surface.
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