Abstract: The magnetic tape cartridge group includes a plurality of magnetic tape cartridges. Regarding 100 reels of magnetic tape cartridges, in a case where a maximum value of an absolute value of a difference between a servo band spacing obtained before predetermined storage and a servo band spacing obtained after the predetermined storage is defined as A, an arithmetic mean of medium lives calculated by a linear function derived from a value of A obtained for different N and a value of the logarithm of total storage time T of the storage of N cycles is 3 years or longer and 3? is 1 year or shorter. Medium life: T in a case where A satisfies A=1.5?B. B: a value calculated by multiplying a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of servo band spacings obtained in each of the five environments by ½.

Abstract: There is provided a mold for molding a tape reel that is made of a resin and that includes a cylindrical portion, a bottom portion formed on a proximal end side of the cylindrical portion, and a plurality of through holes penetrating the bottom portion and arranged in a peripheral direction of the cylindrical portion, the mold including: a bottom surface that is used to form the bottom portion; a tubular surface that is used to form the cylindrical portion; and a plurality of projecting portions that protrude from the bottom surface and are used to form the plurality of through holes, respectively, in which, in the tubular surface, a first portion corresponding to a portion between the projecting portions adjacent to each other in the peripheral direction, among the plurality of projecting portions, has a shape that bulges toward a radially outer side of the bottom surface than a second portion corresponding to the projecting portion.

Abstract: The magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, a magnetic layer that includes ferromagnetic powder having an average particle volume of 2,500 nm3 or less on one surface side of the non-magnetic support, and a back coating layer that includes non-magnetic powder on the other surface side of the non-magnetic support, in which the ferromagnetic powder is ferromagnetic powder selected from the group consisting of hexagonal ferrite powder and ?-iron oxide powder, and a ratio (PSD5 ?m-PSDmag/PSD10 ?m-PSDbc) of the magnetic layer and the back coating layer is in a range of 0.0050 to 0.20. A magnetic tape cartridge and a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus include the magnetic tape.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a magnetic storage device that comprises a housing defining an interior cavity. The magnetic storage device also comprises at least one magnetic disk in the interior cavity of the housing. The magnetic storage device further comprises at least one read-write head in the interior cavity and configured to read data from and write data to the magnetic disk. The read-write head comprises a heat-assisted magnetic storage (HAMR) head. The magnetic storage device additionally comprises a gas, comprising oxygen and helium, sealed in the interior cavity of the housing. A percent concentration of oxygen in the gas is greater than or equal to 3%. A pressure of the gas is between 10% and 70%, inclusive, of atmospheric pressure. A relative humidity within the interior cavity is less than 5%, inclusive. A percent concentration of helium in the gas is less than or equal to 90%.

Abstract: An optical data storage device includes an optical storage tape having one or more optical storage layers. A plurality of optical pickup units reads and/or writes data to the optical storage tape. A feed reel provides the optical storage tape to the optical pickup units. A guiding wheel that guides the optical storage tape when the optical storage tape is in the vicinity of the optical pickup units during read and/or write operations. Finally, a take-up reel receives the optical storage tape from the guiding wheel.

Abstract: Provided is an image forming apparatus including plural image forming portions that form an image on a recording medium, and a transport unit that transports the recording medium to at least one image forming portion selected among the plural image forming portions, wherein the transport unit includes plural transport paths that are different at least in an image forming portion, to which the recording medium is transported, among the plural image forming portions, and in an order of the recording medium transported to each image forming portion constituting the image forming portion to which the recording medium is transported.

Abstract: A control device for controlling tape transport within a tape transport system is disclosed. The control device includes a determination unit, which includes at least a first servo channel and a second servo channel for determining a first lateral position of a tape relative to the head, and for determining a difference between the first and second lateral positions. A computing unit computes a number of unsupported wraps of the tape as a function of the lateral position difference, wherein the number of unsupported wraps corresponds to the number of layers of the tape around the take-up reel having air layers in-between, and computes a spring constant of the tape as a function of the number of unsupported wraps, a radius of the take-up reel and a nominal tape path length. A calibration unit calibrates at least one unit of the tape transport system dependent on the spring constant.

Abstract: A tape guide is provided for use with a tape drive that is configured to receive a length of tape having a tape width. The tape guide includes a body having an outer surface for receiving the tape thereon, and flanges on opposite ends of the body. The flanges may be spaced apart by a distance that is 125 to 500 microns greater than the tape width.

Abstract: An assembly comprises a substantially cylindrical tape winding surface and first and second flanges co-formed with the winding surface to form a unitary hub structure. The tape winding surface extends along an axis from a first end to a second end, and the first and second flanges extend radially from the first and second ends of the tape winding surface, respectively. The tape winding surface and the first and second flanges are co-formed of a unitary hub material having a Young's modulus of at least about one million psi.

Abstract: One embodiment is tape drive that includes a take-tip reel onto which tape is wound. A height adjustment assembly adjusts a height of the take-up reel while the tape is being unwound from the take-up reel.

Abstract: A printer and a module for supporting a paper roll therefore, the module comprising: a body for housing the roll; a first supporting member for the roll before that the roll is unwound for the printing operation; a second supporting member for the roll, after the roll has been wound at the end of printing operations; and a first engaging member carried by said body and disposable in a first configuration wherein it is coupled with a second engaging member carried by the printer to secure the module on the printer; the first engaging member is further disposable in a second configuration, wherein it is released from the second engaging member to permit the extraction of the module from the printer.

Abstract: The method and unit for braking a metal strip (1), running off a wind-out coiler (2.1) in the form of a coil (1.1) and running onto a wind-on coiler (2.2) again, are to guarantee that a surface of the metal strip remains undamaged and a full effective braking force is exerted on the metal strip (1) by means of an eddy current brake (3.1) with a rotating magnet system (3.2). The above is achieved, whereby the braking force is exerted on the metal strip (1) by means of an induced counter-torque against a support bearing (4) to one side in a non-contact manner, whereby the support bearing (4) may be embodied as a counter roller (4.1).

Abstract: A recording unit for recording image information and/or audio information onto a replaceable tape-shaped recording medium, filing units for filing the image information and/or the audio information which have been written onto the replaceable tape-shaped recording medium by the recording unit, and a file information writing/reading unit for writing/reading, in a non-contact state, file information of file into a random accessible memory unit provided in a manner associated with the replaceable tape-shaped recording medium are provided to thereby realize an information processing apparatus.

Abstract: A magnetic recording tape includes an elongated substrate, a magnetic coating disposed on a first side of the substrate, and a backside coated on a second side of the substrate. The magnetic coating includes an exposed magnetic recording layer and a support layer deposited on the substrate between the substrate and the exposed magnetic recording layer. The backside is coated on the substrate opposite the first side and has a roughness average Ra of less than about 18 nm and a friction force of less than about 70 g-force.

Abstract: A coating film transfer tool is provided capable of firmly preventing a non-transcribing portion from being brought about at a transcribed face by coating film detachment of the transcribing tape at an application head and eliminating idle slip at every time of starting to be used. The coating film transfer tool has a protecting cover which is slidable in a front and rear direction between an advanced position in a state of covering the application head and a rear position in a state of exposing the application head at a front end portion of a case main body. The protecting cover is urged in a direction of the advanced position by a spring. There is further provided a tape reel out means for reeling out the transcribing tape to the application head at inside of the case main body. The tape reel out means is moved in cooperation with driving means for moving the protecting cover to the rear position when operating the driving means in starting to be used.

Abstract: In a tape reel that includes a hub around which recording tape is wound and flanges disposed on both end portions of the hub, the elastic modulus in a radial direction of the hub is equal to or greater than 16.0 GPa, and the hub includes different radii on one end side thereof and another end side thereof. The recording tape is wound around the hub such that the side where the radius of curvature of the curvature of a tape edge of the recording tape is small corresponds to the small radius side of the hub. When the recording tape is wound around the hub, fluctuation of the recording tape in an axial direction of the hub is controlled, and one-layer protrusion and disorderly winding of the recording tape that has been wound around the hub are controlled.

Abstract: There are provided a tape reel and a take-up reel at which it is possible to easily and inexpensively manufacture a hub having, at an outer peripheral surface thereof, a portion whose diameter is larger than diameters of each of the end portions of the hub, and a recording tape cartridge having the tape reel and a drive device having the take-up reel. At a tape reel 20 having a hub 22, which is made of resin on which a recording tape T is wound, and flanges 24, 26, which are provided at both end portions of the hub 22, a ring-shaped member 48, whose outer diameter is larger than an inner diameter of at least one portion of the hub 22, is press-fit in at an inner side of the hub 22. The tape reel 20 which has the hub 22 having, at least a portion of an outer peripheral surface, a portion whose diameter is larger than diameters of each of the end portions of the hub, is thereby easily formed.

Abstract: A reel around which recording tape is wound includes: a bottomed, circular cylinder-shaped hub; a reel plate that is disposed on a bottom surface of the hub; and plural gates that are disposed at equidistant intervals along the circumferential direction of the reel plate outside the reel plate and which serve as injection openings for a resin material during molding. An outer peripheral surface of the hub is formed along a circumference whose center coincides with an axial center portion of the hub, and with respect to the thickness of the hub, portions P positioned on straight lines connecting the axial center portion of the hub and the gates are the thinnest, and portions R positioned on straight extension lines that extend in the radial direction from the axial center portion of the hub and run orthogonal to straight lines connecting adjacent gates are the thickest.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus in which a photosensitive material is rewound into a magazine while maintaining a predetermined disposition. Prior to rewinding of the photosensitive material, a distance between concave portions of guide members which constitute a guide portion is set to be substantially equal to the photosensitive material width and a nipping state between a pair of pulling-out rollers is cancelled. Because the nipping state is cancelled, the photosensitive material can be displaced in a width direction. Therefore, the photosensitive material can be rewound into the magazine while maintaining the predetermined disposition, and any skew is corrected by the concave portions of the guide members.

Abstract: A method to monitor the relative position of a magnetic tape disposed in a tape drive, where that tape drive includes a first tape reel motor and a second tape reel motor. The method provides a magnetic tape disposed on a first tape reel, and releaseably attaches the first tape reel to the first tape reel motor. The method further provides a second tape reel attached to the second tape reel motor. The method operates the first tape reel motor and the second tape reel motor to transfer the tape from the first tape reel onto the second tape reel while maintaining a running second reel rotation count. The method sets a second reel rotation count limit, and determines if the running second reel rotation count exceeds that second reel rotation count limit. If the running second reel rotation count exceeds the second reel rotation count limit, then the method discontinues operation of the tape reel motors.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to dispose a tape around the hub portion of a rotatable reel disposed within a tape cartridge, said hub including a pair of flanges extending outwardly therefrom and arranged to contain said tape, each of said flanges having an inner surface, said tape disposed on said hub such that a first edge of a first portion of said tape is disposed on the inner surface of a first flange and such that neither of the edges of a second portion of the tape are disposed on the inner surface of that first flange.

Abstract: Pancake of media in strip or tape form and method of making the pancake, the pancake including a hub onto which the media is wound until an outer wound layer is formed on the pancake, and a sealing element attached to the outer wound layer of the pancake such that a free end of the outer wound layer of the pancake is formed in a region beneath the sealing element. The process provides for winding the media onto a hub and attaching a sealing element to an outer layer of the media, wherein the sealing element is attached to the outer wound layer of the pancake such that a free end of the outer wound layer of the pancake is formed in a region beneath the sealing element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a film delivery and recovery stabilization system for platter-type movie projection systems which provides a stratum material for dissipating static charge which accumulates within the film media and a plurality of retaining members selectively positioned at the periphery of a spool of film. The retaining members encasing magnetic elements that magnetically attach to a magnetic material which has been placed in a variable number of radial slots in the static dissipating stratum material.

Abstract: A magnetic tape is packed prior to removal from a tape drive. The tape is packed by completely unwinding the tape and then completely rewinding the tape without reading or writing to the tape. Completely unwinding the tape and then completely rewinding the tape reduces air entrainment and thereby reduces the susceptibility of the tape to damage after removal from the tape drive.

Abstract: A mechanism prevents uneven take-up of a tape on a take-up reel. This mechanism includes a roller guide having a first flange for guiding a first edge of the tape so as to position the tape in a direction perpendicular to a transport direction of the tape, and an arm roller which pushes against a part in a vicinity of a second edge of the tape which is taken up on the take-up reel, where the second edge is opposite to the first edge.

Abstract: A winding aid for thin tape strips on tape reels or hubs with or without flange(s) comprises a winding arm having a stationary winding surface and rotatable guiding surface(s) arranged adjacent and perpendicular thereto. This improves the quality of the rolls of tape produced from thin tape strips, such as films, magnetic tapes etc.

Abstract: An apparatus (10) for protecting a vehicle occupant including a vehicle seat belt webbing (20) which is extensible about a vehicle occupant, a housing (134) connectable to a component of a vehicle, and a flexible member (280) having a first end portion (284), a second end portion (286), and an intermediate portion (288) extending between the first and second end portions (284, 286). A part (310) of the intermediate portion (288) is located in the housing (134) and cooperates with the housing to define an expansible chamber (308) in the housing. The housing (134) includes a surface (156) for guiding movement of the part (310) of the intermediate portion (288) in an arcuate path (224) to expand the expansible chamber. A clutch (270), actuatable in response to expansion of the expansible chamber (308), is provided to connect the first end portion (284) of the flexible member (280) with the seat belt webbing (20).