Tape drive with a reel motor having a cooling function
AssigneeMitsumi Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorsKazuya Tamura, Eiichi Yoneyama, James Zweighaft, Philip Turner
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Abstract
A reel motor (40) for rotatebly driving a take-up reel (30) rotatably attached onto an upper surface of a chassis (20) of a tape drive (10) comprises a motor board (41), a rotor (42) rotatably attached onto the motor board, and a stator (43) fixedly mounted to the motor board in close proximity to the outside of the rotor. The rotor has air flow means (423a, 423b) for flowing air in and out between the interior and the exterior of the tape drive. The air flow means may be at least one fin (423a) or at least one hole (423b).
Claims6
A tape drive (10) for performing information exchange between said tape drive and a magnetic tape, said tape drive comprising:
- a chassis (20) having an upper surface (20U) and a lower surface (20L);
- a take-up reel (30) rotatably attached onto the upper surface of said chassis;
- a reel motor (40) attached to the lower surface of said chassis and serving to rotatably drive said take-up reel, said reel motor comprising a motor board (41), a rotor (42) rotatably attached onto said motor board , and a stator (43) fixedly mounted to said motor board in close proximity to the outside of said rotor, said rotor having air flow means (423a, 423b) for flowing air in and out between the interior and the exterior of said tape drive;
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- a circuit board (90) covering the lower surface of said chassis.
A reel motor (40) for rotatably driving a reel (30), said reel motor comprising:
- a motor board (41);
- a rotor (42) rotatably attached onto said motor board;
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- a stator (43) fixedly mounted to said motor board in close proximity to the outside of said rotor, wherein
- said rotor having air flow means (423a, 423b) for flowing air in and out between the inside and the outside of said rotor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.