IP Library Granted Patent US 7,187,522
Granted Patent B2
US 7,187,522 · App. 10/693,894 · Granted Mar 6, 2007

Tape cassette

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Patent No.
US 7,187,522
App. No.
10/693,894
Granted
Mar 6, 2007
Kind
B2
Abstract

A tape cassette wherein, on one of the central upper portion of a reel and a pressure mechanism, there is disposed a center pin, on the other, there is formed a contacting flat plate portion with which the center pin can be contacted, one of the center pin and contacting flat plate portion is molded mainly of polyacetal-system synthetic resin, the other is molded mainly of polybutylene-system or polyethylene-system synthetic resin, and inorganic powder is added to at least one of these two kinds of synthetic resin.

Claims (8)

1. A tape cassette comprising:

upper and lower half cases of which a cassette case is composed;

a reel with a magnetic tape wound thereon being rotatably stored in the cassette case;

a pressure mechanism for pressing elastically the central upper portion of the reel, the pressure mechanism being mounted on the upper half case;

a center pin being disposed on one of the reel central upper portion and the pressure mechanism; and

a flat plate portion contacted by the center pin, the flat plate portion being disposed on the other of the reel central upper portion and the pressure mechanism;

wherein one of the center pin and the flat plate portion is molded mainly of polyacetal-system synthetic resin, the other is molded mainly of polybutylene-system or polyethylene-system synthetic resin, and titanium oxide is added to the polybutylene-system or polyethylene-system synthetic resin.

2. The tape cassette as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the addition amount of the inorganic powder based on the total amount of the synthetic resin and the inorganic powder is set in the range of 15˜45 weight percent.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 15, 2007
From: FUJIFILM HOLDINGS CORPORATION (FORMERLY FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.)
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
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