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US 4,382,523 AGranted
Tape cover of magnetic tape cassette and process for preparing tape cover
AssigneeTDK Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMasaoki Sekine, Seiki Shimazu
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Abstract
A tape cover formed by molding an L-shaped body of an upper plate and a front plate in one piece in which an erroneous insertion detecting notch is formed in the joint portion of both the plates comprises an injecting port as a gate positioned on a side surface of said upper plate in said notch, and the thickness of the wall of said upper plate just below said injecting port is larger than that of the other part of the wall of said upper plate near said injecting port wall.
Claims2
A cover for a magnetic tape cassette comprising:
- an L-shaped molded body formed of a resinous material, said body including a front plate and an upper plate having a joint therebetween;
- an erroneous insertion detection notch formed in said body at a first front plate surface and a second upper plate surface of said joint;
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- a sprue formed on a third surface of said body in said notch, said sprue comprising resinous material from an outlet of a mold, wherein the upper plate has a first thickness at said sprue and a second thickness at either side of said sprue, said second thickness being less than said first thickness.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.