Patent ID: 6304410
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A helical scanning magnetic recording/playback device comprising:a plurality of recording heads for writing a plurality of recording tracks on a helically scanned magnetic tape mounted on a periphery of a rotary head drum, anda plurality of playback head pairs, each playback head pair comprising two playback heads for reading the recording tracks on the helically scanned magnetic tape mounted on the periphery of said rotary head drum,wherein playback heads in said plurality of playback head pairs have a track width wider than the track width of the recording heads, each playback head in a pair of heads being mounted at the same azimuth as the other playback head in each pair of heads and each pair of heads reads one recording track simultaneously with the track widths of each pair of heads partially overlapping each other in the track width direction to produce a gap between the track widths of the playback heads in each head pair.