Tape cassette and information storage device

A tape cassette comprising:

• a box housing a magnetic tape,
• a guide opening for said magnetic tape formed at one end of said box,
• a plurality of identification holes formed in the bottom surface edge of said box,
• a slider to cover the reel hub hole section formed in the bottom of said box,
• a rear section formed at the other end of said box facing said guide opening, and
• a memory installed longitudinally on the inner central section of the rear surface.

An information storage device, comprising:

• a front panel formed with a cassette insertion slot installed at the front end of the chassis,
• an information storage cassette inserted from said cassette insertion slot into the interior of said front panel and loaded in said chassis,
• a non-contact memory recorded with various types of control information of the information recording medium inside that cassette and embedded on the rear side of the cassette,
• a switch circuit board installed in the front edge of said chassis and arranged in parallel with the inner side of said front panel, and
• a communications antenna mounted on said switch circuit board, in proximity to the front of said memory of said cassette loaded in said chassis and the communications antenna implements wireless communications of different types of control information in the memory.