Patent ID: 6926220
Filing Date: 2005-08-09
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A recording tape cartridge in combination with a tape drive comprising: a case; a recording tape, which is wound around a single rotatable reel contained in the case and wound onto a reel hub of the tape drive, for recording information thereto or playing information back therefrom; a leader tape having a tape shaped form and having a flexibility in its thickness direction, and being connected at one end of said leader tape to the top end of the recording tape; wherein said leader tape has engagements attachable to the reel hub formed at the other leader tape end which is not connected to the recording tape, said engagements being positioned on the outer edges of the leader tape, and fitting closely on the periphery of the reel hub with the engagements engaging with the reel hub when the recording tape is wound onto the reel hub, and wherein the engagement of the leader tape has an engaging opening that receives a fixing pin provided on a portion of the reel hub outside of the wind-up surface of the reel hub onto which the recording tape is wound.