Tape guide for a magnetic tape cartridge and method of manufacturing the same

摘要

A tape guide for a magnetic tape cartridge and a method of manufacturing same is disclosed. The guide is of synthetic resin and provided with many minute protrusions on its tape-guiding surface to greatly reduce the area of contact between the tape guide and the magnetic tape guided thereby. The protrusions may by produced by utilizing synthetic resin material of a molding contraction ratio of about 0.8% or greater.