Patent ID: 6191920
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A tape cassette comprising a housing made up of upper and lower casings, a pair of reels around which a tape is wound and contained altogether in the housing, and a pair of cylindrical resin tape guides having a height greater than the width of the tape, said tape guides being securely fitted to corresponding tape guide posts also having a height greater than the width of the tape and provided in the lower casing, each said tape guide post having a press-fit rib formed in one piece therewith on the side where the tape does not come in contact with the tape guide thereon, said rib having a vertical height greater than half that of the tape guide and serving to make the dimensions of the tape guide post surface on the tape-contacting side greater than the inside diameter of the tape guide before being press-fitted.