Recording medium cassette and a recording/reproducing apparatus

Details Recording medium cassette and a recording/reproducing apparatus Recording medium cassette and a recording/reproducing apparatus

1993-05-27

1995-02-21

Stodola, Daniel P.

Winding, tensioning, or guiding

Unwinding and rewinding a machine convertible information...

Cartridge system

G11B 1504

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active

053908708

ABSTRACT:
A recording medium cassette being easily miniaturized if necessary, and a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, such as a VTR, adapted to use the same recording medium cassette. The recording medium cassette includes a printed wiring board having a plurality of information indicating contacts and which is fixed to the bottom wall of a case of the recording medium cassette so that the information indicating contacts are accessible from outside through slots formed in the bottom wall. The recording and/or reproducing apparatus is provided with a plurality of information detecting contacts respectively corresponding to the information indicating contacts of the recording medium cassette. The information detecting contacts may respectively contact the information indicating contacts upon insertion of the recording medium cassette into the recording and/or reproducing apparatus so as to enable information to be transferred therebetween. The VTR is adapted to use both a small-sized tape cassette and a large-sized tape cassette.

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