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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2014
Applicant:
Fujifilm Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Teruo Ashikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 23/50 (2006.01); G11B 19/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 23/502 (2013.01); G11B 23/50 (2013.01); G11B 19/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A tape cleaning device includes a blade that, while touching a recording tape that is running, scrapes foreign bodies from the recording tape; a roller that touches the recording tape and rotates along with the running of the recording tape, the foreign bodies scraped off by the blade being transferred to the roller; and a removal mechanism that removes the foreign bodies that have been transferred to the roller from the roller.