Patent ID: 7861965
Filing Date: 2011-01-04
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A reel comprising: a reel hub made of a resin material and being formed into a cylindrical shape having one end in an axial direction be an opening end, and another end portion in the opposite axial direction; a flange made of a resin material and being molded as a single piece with the reel hub so as to extend integrally outward in a radial direction from the opening end of the reel hub; a reinforcement ring integrally disposed at an inner radial side of a take-up surface for a taken-up object of the reel hub by insert molding, and reinforcing the reel hub in the radial direction; and a bottom plate portion being extended integrally inward in a radial direction from the other end portion of the reel hub, wherein a position of an end portion at the flange side in the reel hub axial direction of the reinforcement ring is located within a range of the take-up surface in the axial direction of the reel hub, such that the reinforcement ring does not overlap with a thickness of the flange, and such that none of the resin material of the flange and the reel hub is in contact with the end portion at the flange side in the reel hub axial direction of the reinforcement ring.