Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record transport with head stationary during transducing – Tape record
Patent
1985-04-03
1987-09-15
Tupper, Robert S.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record transport with head stationary during transducing
Tape record
360 85, 360 95, 360132, G11B 15675, G11B 1560, G11B 23087
Patent
active
046943609
ABSTRACT:
A tape cassette comprises a cassette housing having an upper section, a lower section, a pair of reel hubs rotatably accommodated therein for winding a magnetic tape therearound, and a front opening through which the tape is engageable with a recording and/or reproducing head. The lower section is formed with a pair of openings for respectively receiving reel shafts for rotating the hubs and thereby driving the tape, and the upper section is formed with a recess. A tape player with which the cassette cooperates is provided with a holder for the cassette, with a loading hook engageable in the recess in the upper cassette section, and with an arrangement of cams and levers for moving the loading hook between an ejection position wherein the tape cassette can be manually inserted partway into or removed from the cassette holder and a loaded position wherein an inserted cassette is fully drawn into the holder, and for moving the holder between an upper position wherein a cassette can be loaded into or ejected from the holder and a lower position wherein a cassette loaded into the holder engages a tape drive.
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Horikawa Kenichi
Kawakami Kenji
Ohyama Masao
Yamamoto Yoshinori
Eslinger Lewis H.
Sinderbrand Alvin
Sony Corporation
Tupper Robert S.
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