Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Fumio Kasai

Hideo Yoshida

Takahiko Suezawa

Kyozo Okumura

A cassette tape player compatible with cassette tapes of different formats incorporates a cassette holder which holds an analog compact cassette and a digital compact cassette in a state they are placed one upon another. The cassette holder includes a cassette holder main body having an analog cassette storage section, a digital cassette storage section, and a second cassette holder member. The second cassette holder member is supported by the cassette holder main body such that it is slightly movable in a moving direction of the cassette holder, and has a slider moving lever for opening the slider of the digital cassette. A cassette tape player with such a cassette holder has separate magnetic heads for analog and digital signals, thereby lengthening the life of the magnetic heads and achieving faithful recording and reproduction.

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Higashihiroshima, Japan

Fumio Kasai