Tape cassette

Details Tape cassette Tape cassette

1998-10-22

2000-09-12

Tupper, Robert S.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

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G11B 23087

Patent

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061186317

ABSTRACT:
In a tape cassette comprising a housing made up of upper and lower casings, a pair of reels around which a tape is wound and contained altogether in the housing, the housing having openings formed at the front so that the tape supplied from one reel travels as exposed along the front and is taken up by the other reel, a front lid swingably attached to the housing to cover its front surface, and a spring member having a coiled portion fitted onto a pivot of the front lid and also having a free end secured to the inner surface of the upper casing to force the front lid in the closing direction by the spring action; a bend angled toward a direction away from the inner surface of the upper casing is formed at the free end of the spring member that applies the spring action to the front lid, and a rib to secure the free end of the spring member in place is formed at the front of the upper casing to which the front lid is attached.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3900172 (1975-08-01), Kamaya
patent: 4951167 (1990-08-01), Hiramoto et al.
patent: 5308015 (1994-05-01), Gelardi et al.

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