Servo writer and tape drive system
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorKeiichi Tsutsui
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Abstract
A head unit includes a head, and a head guide assembly disposed adjacent to the head to restrict a displacement of a tape (tape-like storage medium) in a tape width direction with respect to the head. A tape drive system includes a tape guide arrangement disposed to guide the tape supplied from a supply reel to the head unit, passed across the head unit and led to a take-up reel. The tape guide arrangement includes a guide disposed adjacent to the head unit, and the guide is supported with an air bearing. In one embodiment, the guide includes a motor for rotating a contact surface of the guide around which the tape is wrapped, in accordance with movement of the tape.
Claims20
A servo writer comprising:
- a head unit including a head, and a head guide assembly disposed adjacent to the head to restrict a displacement of a tape in a tape width direction with respect to the head;
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- a tape drive system including a tape guide arrangement disposed to guide the tape supplied from a supply reel to the head unit, passed across the head unit and led to a take-up reel,
- wherein the tape guide arrangement includes a guide disposed adjacent to the head unit, the guide being supported with an air bearing.
A tape drive system for driving a tape-like storage medium, to allow a head provided in a head unit to perform at least one of reading and writing functions for data on the tape-like storage medium, the tape drive system comprising:
- a tape guide arrangement for guiding the tape-like storage medium supplied from a supply reel to the head unit, passed across the head unit and led to a take-up reel, the tape guide arrangement including first and second guides disposed adjacent to the head unit, upstream and downstream of the head unit, respectively, each of the first and second guides being supported with an air bearing;
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- a head guide assembly disposed adjacent to the head in the head unit to restrict a displacement of the tape-like storage medium in a tape width direction with respect to the head, at positions upstream and downstream of the head.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.