Patent ID: 6357693
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A tape guide roll produced by injecting a molding material into a pre-set cavity and formed unitarily from an inner cylindrical portion, an outer cylindrical portion coaxial with said inner cylindrical portion, and a plurality of connecting portions arranged in a spaced apart relationship along a circumferential direction for interconnecting said inner and outer cylindrical portions, whereina length in an axial direction of said inner cylindrical portion is set to be longer than a tape width, with a length in the axial direction of said outer cylindrical portion being longer than the length in the axial direction of said inner cylindrical portion, so that an upper end of said inner cylindrical portion is recessed from an upper end of said outer cylindrical portion and a lower end of said inner cylindrical portion is recessed from a lower end of said outer cylindrical portion.