Tape motion control for reel-to-reel drive
CA 1097799 A · Owner: International Business Machines Corporation · Inventors: Patel, Arvind M.; Stedman, David; Eige, John J.
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Abstract of the Disclosure, High tape acceleration rates are achieved in an unbuffered capstanless tape drive system by a tape motion control apparatus employing separate drive motors for each reel of a reel-to-reel tape transport. Tape moves from one reel past a read/write head and a tape tension sensor to the other reel, there being no tachometer in the tape feed path. A tachometer on one reel shaft provides a large number of pulses per revolution which pulses are counted by a counter; and a tachometer on the other reel shaft provides only one pulse per revolution which pulse, gates out the count then accumulated in the counter for actuating means to provide motor acceleration currents of …
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- Granted March 17, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 17, 1998.
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