Recording medium cartridge
View Patent ↗The recording medium cartridge accommodates a recording medium such as a magnetic tape, a optical and/or magnetic disk, or the like in a cartridge body having an upper half and a lower half. A non-contact type memory device storing information, for example, given when producing the cartridge is provided in a reel of at least one of upper and lower flanges of a tape reel or on a surface facing to the tape winding surface of the body in the cartridge accommodating the tape reel wound with the tape, or in a recessed portion formed in at least one of a bottom surface of the lower half and an upper surface of a slider or in the slider in the cartridge having the slider, or in a transparent window of the body. A part of at least one of the upper and lower halves that corresponds to the memory device may be notched. The memory device may be welded together when fitting other members.
1. A recording medium cartridge defined as a magnetic tape cartridge, comprising:
a cartridge body;
a tape reel accommodated in said cartridge body and wound with a magnetic tape, said tape reel having upper and lower flanges; and
a non-contact type memory device disposed in a reel of at least one of the upper and lower flanges of said tape reel.
2. The recording medium cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein said tape reel is a take-up hub wound with the magnetic tape, and
a position provided with said non-contact type memory device is a position that does not impede tape winding and interfere with a reel driving shaft inserted into said cartridge body from a recording/reproducing device when using said magnetic tape cartridge, and impedes neither a rotation of this reel driving shaft nor a rotation of said take-up hub in a configuration and a structure of said take-up hub.
3. The recording medium cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein said non-contact type memory device disposed in said tape reel is attached to a predetermined position within said tape reel by use of an adhesive agent, or fixed to a predetermined position by insert molding when molding parts.
4. The recording medium cartridge according to claim 1 , wherein said non-contact type memory comprises an IC chip and a data transmitting/receiving antenna.