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Article: California Inventor Develops Tape Drive Arrangement
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 5, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 5 -- Dennis W. Painter of La Palma, Calif., has developed a tape drive with automatic adaptation for different size tape cassettes.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tape drive arrangement is configured to automatically adapt to drive different size tape cassettes and includes a sensor that senses the size of a tape cassette inserted into the tape drive. A controller is automatically responsive to the signals provided by the sensor to move drive spindles to respective different positions to drive different size tape cassettes."
The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,097,125 on Aug. 29.
The patent has been assigned to Certance LLC, Scotts ...