US 6,981,669 B2
Magnetic tape cartridge
Yusuke Ishihara, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Hideaki Shiga, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); and Kiyoo Morita, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Assigned to Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd., Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Filed on Aug. 05, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/633,703.
Application 10/633703 is a division of application No. 09/913733, granted, now 6,663,036, previously published as PCT/JP00/00738, filed on Feb. 10, 2000.
Claims priority of application No. 11-038663 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 1999.
Prior Publication US 2004/0021026 A1, Feb. 05, 2004
Int. Cl. G11B 23/107 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 242—348.2 3 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A magnetic tape cartridge comprising:
a single reel with magnetic tape wound thereon;
a cartridge case for rotatably housing said single reel;
a leader pin having a tape clamp portion on which said magnetic tape is wound; and
a clamp member with C cross section that has an axial slit;
wherein said leader pin is affixed to a leading end of said magnetic tape by elastically fitting said clamp member onto said tape clamp portion of said leader pin;
and wherein a sheet member for enhancing a coefficient of friction is interposed at least between said magnetic tape and said tape clamp portion.