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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2014
Applicant:
Fujifilm Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Teruo Ashikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/41 (2006.01); G11B 23/50 (2006.01); G11B 19/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 23/502 (2013.01); G11B 5/41 (2013.01); G11B 19/26 (2013.01);
Abstract
A head cleaning device includes: a wiper member formed in an elongate shape and having a wiper anchoring portion anchored so as not to move in a tape width direction; and a support member that includes a wiper entrainment portion about which the wiper member is entrained so as to double back, that causes the wiper entrainment portion to move in the tape width direction so that a surface of the wiper member at an opposite side of the wiper entrainment portion from the wiper anchoring portion wipes a head that performs at least one of writing information to, or reading information from, a recording tape.