Patent ID: 7073743

Claim:
A magnetic tape cartridge comprising; an opening provided on one side wall of a cartridge case, and is used for tape drawing; a slide door slidably supported by a guide part disposed along said one side wall, and said slide door is used for achieving a shutting-and-opening operation of said opening; and a spring member for impelling said slide door to a shutting direction side, and is placed on said guide part, the spring member having two adjoining coils and a spring arm extending from each of the adjoining coils, such that the spring member has a spring arm in the shutting direction side and a spring arm in the opening direction side; an end part of said spring member, in an opening direction side of said spring member, is supported at a higher position than an end part of said spring member in the shutting direction side, wherein, the end part of the spring member, in the opening direction side, is supported in a lower half of the cartridge case, and wherein the spring arm of the spring member, in the shutting direction side, is longer than the spring arm of the spring member in the opening direction side so that the two adjoining coils remain in a horizontal position when the spring member is engaged with said slide door.