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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2008
Hideaki Shiga, Odawara, JP;
Hideaki Shiga, Odawara, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There are provided a tape reel, a recording tape cartridge, a take-up reel, and a drive device at which, when a recording tape is wound on a hub, fluctuations in an axial direction of the hub can be suppressed and occurrence of tape edge damage can be prevented. At a tape reel having a hub on which a recording tape T is wound and flanges which are provided at both end portions of the hub, a large diameter portion, whose diameter is larger than diameters of both end portion sides of the hub, is formed at the hub. The large diameter portion is offset, from a widthwise direction central portion of the hub, toward the one flange side or the other flange side.