Winding – tensioning – or guiding – Unwinding and rewinding a machine convertible information... – Carrier speed or tension control
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-08
2005-03-08
Lillis, Eileen D. (Department: 3654)
Winding, tensioning, or guiding
Unwinding and rewinding a machine convertible information...
Carrier speed or tension control
C242S343100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06863232
ABSTRACT:
A tape tension controlling mechanism of a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for controlling a tension of a magnetic tape includes: a reel bed; a reel bed drum; a tension post; a tension arm rotatably supported by a tension arm shaft; an urging element; a tension band having an engagement portion; and a band fixing screw having a threaded portion at one end thereof and a head portion at the other end, the band fixing screw further having, between the threaded portion and the head portion, an intermediate shaft portion for engagement with the engagement portion of the tension band, wherein a longitudinal center line of the intermediate shaft portion is shifted from the longitudinal center line of the threaded portion, and a pitch P of a thread of the threaded portion and a longitudinal length L of the intermediate shaft portion have a relationship of L>P/2.
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Konishi Akio
Nagasaki Eiji
Haugland Scott J.
Lillis Eileen D.
Renner , Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP
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