Patent ID: 6141166
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A magnetic recording device for recording information by diagonally scanning a head drum along the direction of a tape recording medium, comprising:a head drum;first and second recording heads of a first head width installed in mutual proximity along the rotation direction of said head drum, said first and second recording heads forming first and second magnetic recording zones on the tape recording medium having boundary lines;third and fourth recording heads having a second head width narrower than said first head width and installed in proximity to said first and second recording heads; andan imaginary common line formed along the rotation direction of said head drum;wherein said first, second, third and fourth recording heads are arranged on the imaginary common line while the upper edges of said first and third recording heads and the lower edges of said second and fourth recording heads are aligned with said imaginary common line, andwherein information recorded by said third and fourth recording heads overlaps both sides of the boundary lines of the first and second recording zones of the tape recording medium formed by the first and second recording heads.