Tape cassette loading and unloading apparatus comprising holder

Details Tape cassette loading and unloading apparatus comprising holder Tape cassette loading and unloading apparatus comprising holder

1986-01-27

1988-11-29

Hecker, Stuart N.

Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval

Record transport with head stationary during transducing

Tape record

360 95, G11B 5008, G11B 1500, G11B 1700

Patent

active

047886161

ABSTRACT:
A tape cassette loading and unloading apparatus loads and unloads a tape cassette in and from a recording and/or reproducing apparatus. The tape cassette has an approximately rectangular parallelepiped shape with top and bottom surfaces respectively having a longer side and a shorter side and a lid provided on a front of the tape cassette. The loading and unloading apparatus comprises a frame, a holder movably provided within the frame for receiving and moving the tape cassette, a mechanism for moving the holder to an insertion completion position and then to a predetermined loading position during a tape cassette loading mode when the tape cassette is inserted into the holder in a cassette receiving position from one side surface of the tape cassette having the shorter side and pushes the holder slightly past the cassette receiving position and for moving the holder from the predetermined loading position to the cassette receiving position via the insertion completion position during a tape cassette ejecting mode, and a member integrally provided on the frame for engaging and opening the lid as the holder is moved from the insertion completion position to the predetermined loading position.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4227224 (1980-10-01), Umezawa et al.
patent: 4631607 (1986-12-01), Katsumato

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