Patent ID: 7516913

Claim:
A cartridge case for a magnetic tape cartridge provided with a tape reel received for rotation in said cartridge case and a flexible sheet-formed in-cartridge memory tag fixedly received in said cartridge case, said cartridge case comprising: a case shell comprising two mating shell halves each of which comprises a rectangular base plate section and a peripheral wall section extending upright from and surrounding said rectangular base plate section and which form a reel chamber therebetween for receiving said tape reel for rotation therein and a memory tag chamber formed out of said reel chamber therebetween for receiving said flexible sheet-formed in-cartridge memory tag therein by mating said peripheral wall sections of said two mating shell halves with each other; and retaining means disposed in said memory tag chamber for fixedly retaining said flexible sheet-formed in-cartridge memory tag at a given angle, said retaining means comprising at least a pair of supporting braces fixedly provided in one of said two mating shell halves for supporting said flexible sheet-formed in-cartridge memory tag thereon and at least one holding brace fixedly provided in the other of said two mating shell halves for holding down said flexible sheet-formed in-cartridge memory tag mounted on said supporting braces; wherein each said supporting brace has an angled surface extending toward said peripheral wall section of said one mating shell half at an elevation angle equal to said given angle and said holding brace has an angled leading surface extending toward said peripheral wall section of said other mating shell half at a depression angle equal to said given angle and an angled trailing surface extending continuously from said angled leading surface to said peripheral wall section of said other mating shell half at a depression angle greater than said given angle so as to form a wedge-shaped capture groove between said angled trailing surface and said peripheral wall section of said other mating shell half.