Disk-drive-compatible magnetic tape cartridge with tape-positioning guide for accurately positioning magnetic tape with respect to disk drive head
CA 1319426 C · Owner: Clifford, George · Inventors: Clifford, George; Spenner, Bruce F.; Mcconica, Charles H.
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A disk-drive-compatible magnetic tape cartridge is provided with a tape guide for accurately positioning a magnetic tape in relation to a disk drive head. The tape guide includes a positioning section to be aligned with a rotation axis of a center core assembly when the center core assembly is chucked on a turntable of the disk drive. The tape guide also includes a guide section defining a tape run path across the disk drive head. The guide section is formed integrally with the section to be aligned with the center core assembly and so distanced from the latter as to accurately position the magnetic tape with respect to the disk drive head. Since the tape guide has the positioning section …
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- Granted June 22, 1993. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 22, 2010.
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