FujiFilm Assigned Patent

FujiFilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (9,336,822) developed by Hiraguchi, Kazuo, Kanagawa, Japan, for a “recording tape cartridge and brake member provided thereto.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A recording tape cartridge of the present invention includes: a reel formed with an engagement portion on a bottom portion of a reel hub, a resin brake member moving toward and away from the bottom portion of the reel hub, and selectively adopting a rotation locked position and a rotation permitted position, a resin release member being capable of movement in a reel axial direction and rotating as a unit with the reel, and a projection portion that projects out in the reel axial direction from an axial center portion of either the brake member or the release member, that is formed with a housing portion housing a spherical member that contacts the other out of the brake member or the release member, and that is formed with a lip portion jutting out from an opening end portion of the housing portion toward a reel radial direction inner side.“

The patent application was filed on June 18, 2014 (14/307,502).