Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval – Record medium – In container
Patent
1988-05-25
1989-03-28
Tupper, Robert S.
Dynamic magnetic information storage or retrieval
Record medium
In container
G11B 23087
Patent
active
048169536
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
Dowden Donald S.
Eslinger Lewis H.
Sony Corporation
Tupper Robert S.
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