| 摘要 |
<p>A belt-driven tape cartridge (10) has a rectangular housing with a front wall (22) shorter than its side walls (20). The front wall (22) has an access opening (24) for a tape read/write head (25) and a drive opening (26). A pair of tape spools (34, 36) are rotatably mounted in the housing so as to lie on an axis oriented at an angle (44) to the front wall (22), and a plurality of tape guides (46, 48, 50) define a tape path between the spools (34, 36) and across the access opening (24). An endless drive belt (52) extends around a drive roller (54) at the drive opening (25) and at least three belt guide rollers (54, 56, 58) in a belt path arranged to contact tape (38) on each spool (34, 36). The tape path has extended portions extending between the tape contacting portions on each side of the spools (34, 36). At least one belt guide roller (58) is located in the same extended portion of the belt path as the drive roller (54) and at least two belt guide rollers (56, 57) are located in the other extended portion of the belt path.</p> |
