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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2008
Philip Turner, Frenchay, GB;
James West, Bristol, GB;
Mark Digby Teucher, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Mark Fernihough, Batheaston Bath, GB;
Mark Dillon, Bristol, GB;
Philip Turner, Frenchay, GB;
James West, Bristol, GB;
Mark Digby Teucher, Bristol, GB;
Andrew Mark Fernihough, Batheaston Bath, GB;
Mark Dillon, Bristol, GB;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A tape cartridge includes a housing and a tape reel that is rotatable about an axis of rotation. The tape reel is adapted to cooperably engage a reel drive member of a data transfer apparatus that, in use, applies a drive torque to the tape reel to rotate the tape reel about the axis of rotation. The cooperable engagement of the tape reel and reel drive member is such as to secure the tape reel to the reel drive member to at least substantially prevent tipping of the tape reel with respect to the reel drive member.