Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1992-09-18
1995-01-31
Levy, Stuart S.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
360 95, 360 965, G11B 5008, G11B 15675
Patent
active
053863291
ABSTRACT:
The specification discloses a tape cassette loading system equipped in a magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus for loading a standard tape cassette or a small tape cassette which is smaller than the standard tape cassette into the apparatus. The tape cassette loading system includes a cassette holder slidably provided for holding the standard or the small tape cassette therein, a cassette holder driving mechanism for transferring the cassette holder to predetermined positions, a door mechanism comprising a door portion having first and second doors provided for selectively permitting insertion of the standard or the small tape cassette to the cassette holder and a door stopper mechanism for preventing the first and second doors from opening, a cassette holder positioning device for selectively positioning the cassette holder to the first or the second mounting and taking-out position correspondingly with the insertion of the standard or the small tape cassette, and a cassette positioning device provided on a chassis base for positioning the standard or the small tape cassette in the first or the second cassette holding position where loading poles of the apparatus are positioned at the first or the second loading start position correspondingly with the first or the second cassette holding position.
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Ditmyer Paul J.
Levy Stuart S.
Meller Michael N.
Victor Company of Japan Ltd.
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