Patent ID: 6441989
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A tape guide device for guiding a tape in a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, comprising:(a) a base in which a hole is formed; and (b) a guide post, for guiding the tape, having at one end thereof a smaller-diameter portion than a tape guiding portion, a part of the smaller-diameter portion inserted in the hole of said base, the smaller-diameter portion of said guide post and said base fused to each other by a laser beam on one side of said base on which said guide post is provided, and the smaller-diameter portion also extended on said base so as to form a space, and a slope surface formed at a border part of the smaller-diameter portion and the tape guiding portion of said guide post in the space and sloped upward in a direction away from the base for permitting irradiating of the laser beam from a position above the base.