Tape cartridge
AssigneeHitachi Maxell, Ltd.
InventorTeruo Sogabe
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A tape cartridge in which adverse influences on windability attributed to at least one cause selected from entrapment of entrained air, vibration of tapes and flipping of tapes are suppressed is provided. The tape cartridge is composed of a case, a reel disposed inside the case, a band-like tape which can be wound onto the reel in a feedable way, a pressing member (e.g., touch roller) for pressing an unwound portion of the tape to a tape roll including a wound portion of the tape and the reel at a contact start point between the unwound portion and the tape roll during winding of the tape, and a position adjustment member for adjusting a position of the pressing member in conformity to changes in diameter of the tape roll while supporting the pressing member inside the case.
Claims15
A tape cartridge, comprising:
- a case;
- a reel disposed inside the case;
- a band-like tape which can be wound onto the reel in a feedable way;
- a pressing member disposed inside the case for pressing an unwound portion of the tape to a tape roll at a contact start point between the unwound portion and the tape roll during winding of the tape, the tape roll being composed of a wound portion of the tape which is wound onto the reel and the reel;
- and
- a position adjustment member for adjusting a position of the pressing member in conformity to changes in diameter of the tape roll while supporting the pressing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.