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US 5,845,860 AGranted
Tape cartridge
AssigneeKao Corporation
InventorsTakehiko Tohjo, Hidetoshi Watanabe
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Abstract
A tape cartridge 1 including a cartridge body 2 including an upper half 2a and a lower half 2b, a magnetic tape 20 with a distal end being continuous with a leader tape 10, and a single tape reel 3 having the magnetic tape 20 taken up thereon and rotate-ably received within the cartridge body 2, wherein a thickness t2 of the leader tape 10 at an end edge portion 12 of a connecting portion 11 thereof connected to the magnetic tape 20 is larger than eight times but less than or equal to twenty times a thickness t1 of the magnetic tape 20.
Claims5
A tape cartridge comprising:
- a cartridge body including an upper half and a lower half,
- a leader tape,
- a magnetic tape having a thickness less than 8.3 .mu.m, said magnetic tape having a distal end continuous with the leader tape, and
- a single tape reel having the magnetic tape taken up thereon and rotatably received within said cartridge body,
- wherein a thickness of said leader tape at an end edge portion of a connection portion thereof connected to said magnetic tape is larger than eight times, but less than or equal to twenty times, a thickness of said magnetic tape.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.