File protect and amount of tape sensing apparatus

Details File protect and amount of tape sensing apparatus File protect and amount of tape sensing apparatus

1978-09-18

1980-01-15

Canney, Vincent P.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

General recording or reproducing

Recording-or erasing-prevention

360 721, G11B 1504, G11B 1518

Patent

active

041841808

ABSTRACT:
The disclosed apparatus includes a cylindrical shaped surface that synchronously rotates with a tape reel. Reflective material is patterned on this surface to form first, second and third tracks of bits running parallel to each other around the surface. A pair of light beams are aligned with the first and second tracks when a file protect reel is inserted in the tape reel, whereas the same pair of light beams are aligned with the second and third tracks when the tape reel does not have a file protect ring inserted therein. A light sensing circuit converts the portion of the light beams that is reflected from the aligned tracks into a pair of logic signals representative thereof. When the tape is moving in a predetermined direction, another circuit sets a bit in response to the logic signals as an indicator of which tracks are aligned with the light beams. Subsequently, the logic signals and the bit are used to indicate the amount of tape that is unwound from or wound onto the tape reel.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3688300 (1972-08-01), Whysong et al.
patent: 3700320 (1972-10-01), Brewer et al.
patent: 3772662 (1973-11-01), Blair
patent: 4109114 (1978-08-01), Baer et al.

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