Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1988-10-12
1991-02-05
Severin, David J.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
G11B 5008, G11B 1500
Patent
active
049910434
ABSTRACT:
A tape cassette loading system of a video tape recorder comprises a cassette loading mechanism including a cassette tray adapted to accept a standard size tape cassette and a compact size tape cassette, for transporting a tape cassette placed thereon from a eject state located substantially outside of a body of the video tape recorder for placement or removal of the tape cassette horizontally to a closed state in which the tape cassette is completely inside the body of the video tape recorder, then to a compact cassette loading state immediately below the closed state, and then to a standard cassette loading state further below the compact cassette loading state, wherein a reel drive mechanism is movable responsive to the type of the tape cassette on the cassette loading means between a first state and a second state for driving a take up reel and a supply reel of the tape cassette, a tape loading mechanism is movable responsive to the type of the tape cassette on the cassette loading mechanism between a first state for engagement with the standard size tape cassette and a second state for engagement with the compact size tape cassette, for drawing out a magnetic tape from the tape cassette and for loading the magnetic tape on a guide drum of the video tape recorder, and a controller is used for controlling the state of the cassette loading mechanism, reel drive mechanism and the tape loading mechanism responsive to the type of the tape cassette to be loaded.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4664337 (1987-05-01), Shiratori
patent: 4729046 (1988-03-01), Steipe et al.
patent: 4853805 (1989-08-01), Baranski
Hara Mitsuhiko
Harumatsu Mitsuo
Hirayama Hiromichi
Mihara Masato
Meller Michael N.
Severin David J.
Victor Company of Japan Ltd.
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