Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Hajime Iwase

Masaaki Sato

Akira Osanai

Michio Kusuyama

An automobile magnetic tape playing apparatus includes a magnetic tape driving unit with a magnetic head and an amplifier unit carried on an automobile. These units are mechanically and electrically connected and disconnected to each other so that the magnetic tape driving unit may be carried out from an automobile by separating it from the amplifier unit, if necessary.

Automobile magnetic tape playing apparatus

A cassette adapter of this invention is incorporated into a reel drive type tape recorder to permit the use of a capstan drive type tape cassette. The cassette adapter houses a capstan drive type tape cassette and is incorporated into a tape cassette insertion position of the reel drive type tape recorder. The torques of reel shafts of the reel drive type tape recorder cause the reel shaft of the cassette adapter to be rotated and at the same time cause a switch for the capstan shaft drive motor to be switched ON.

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Fujimi, Japan

Hajime Iwase