Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1981-08-14
1983-12-13
Eddleman, Alfred H.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
G11B 1568, G11B 2304
Patent
active
044207794
ABSTRACT:
An automatic cassette changer is provided for use with a cassette VTR of the type having push-buttons depressible for selecting at least recording, reproducing and rewinding modes, respectively, of the VTR, and a cassette holder movable between a raised position for receiving or delivering a cassette and a lowered position at which a cassette in the holder can have its tape acted upon by the VTR in a selected one of its modes. The automatic cassette changer provides a magazine for housing a plurality of cassettes; cassette-manipulating devices operative in a plurality of modes in succession for removing a cassette from the magazine and inserting the same into the cassette holder at its raised position, moving the cassette holder to its lowered position so that the VTR can act to record, reproduce or rewind the tape of the cassette in the holder, and discharging the cassette from the holder upon the return of the latter to its raised position; a mode selecting assembly actuable for selecting the modes of the cassette-manipulating means; a first motor for driving the mode selecting assembly, actuators adapted to be driven for causing operation of the cassette-manipulating devices in each selected one of the modes of the latter determined by said mode selecting assembly; and a second motor for driving said actuators.
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Fujikawa Mitsunobu
Kamimura Tomohisa
Takano Yoshikazu
Eddleman Alfred H.
Eslinger Lewis H.
Sinderbrand Alvin
Sony Corporation
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