Patent ID: 7965469
Filing Date: 2011-06-21
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A tape loading system including a tape cartridge having a tape which is unreeled from a case body housing the tape and is taken up by a take up reel of an external unit through a loading path of the external unit; comprising a cleaning member which can bend elastically and which is placed at a leading end of the tape in a protruding manner and, wherein the cleaning member moves in a state of being in contact with a head placed along the loading path upon unreeling of the tape, so that the head is cleaned, wherein a leader tape is connected to the leading end of the tape in such a manner that the cleaning member is sandwiched between the leading end of the tape and the trailing end of the leader tape, and wherein the leader tape, the leading end of the tape, and the cleaning member are integrally connected with a splicing tape.