Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hideki Sakumoto

Akihiro Nishimura

Yoshinori Shiomi

Masao Kawagishi

Masahiko Matsui

Yoshiteru Namoto

Machiko Hirano

Satoshi Kikuya

Kanji Kubo

Toshibumi Kamiyama

Chikanori Miyawaki

Mitsunobu Furumoto

Osahiko Yano

Akihiko Yamamura

Provided is a cassette holder device in a tape recording apparatus having a body, which receives either one or more than two kinds of tape cassettse having different sizes, and loads thereof in the tape recorder body, comprising: a cassette holder member, having an insertion opening, for storing and holding therein a large size tape cassette; and a small size tape cassette guide member disposed rotatably so that it can project into the insertion opening of the cassette holder member from above the latter, having one of side surfaces facing one of side surfaces of an inserted small size cassette with a slight gap therebetween so as to regulate and guide the position of insertion of the small size tape cassette, the one side surface of the small tape cassette guide member guiding the one side surface of the small size tape cassette so as to introduce the latter into the holder member while the guide member is rotated upward by insertion force of a large size tape cassette which is inserted into the insertion opening of the holder member and is therefore retracted outside of an insertion path of the large size tape cassette.

Cassette holder device capable of receiving large and small size

Provided is a cassette holder device in a tape recording apparatus having a body, which receives either one or more than two kinds of tape cassettes having different sizes, and loads thereof in the tape recorder body, comprising: a cassette holder member, having an insertion opening, for storing and holding therein a large size tape cassette; and a small size tape cassette guide member disposed rotatably so that it can project into the insertion opening of the cassette holder member from above the latter, having one of side surfaces facing one of side surfaces of an inserted small size cassette with a slight gap therebetween so as to regulate and guide the position of insertion of the small size tape cassette, the one side surface of the small tape cassette guide member guiding the one side surface of the small size tape cassette so as to introduce the latter into the holder member while the guide member is rotated upward by insertion force of a large size tape cassette which is inserted into the insertion opening of the holder member and is therefore retracted outside of an insertion path of the large size tape cassette.

Cassette holder device capable of preventing erroneous insertion of

A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus including a cassette discriminating device for discriminating a large cassette having first supply and take-up reels and a small cassette having second supply and take-up reels, a first reel base engageable with the first and second supply reels, a second reel base engageable with the first take-up reel, a third reel base engageable with the second take-up reel, which is lifted and lowered vertically, a first cassette loading device for loading the large cassette onto the first and second reel bases so as to hold the third reel base at a lowered position before completion of loading of the large cassette, a second cassette loading device for loading the small cassette onto the first and third reel bases so as to hold the third reel base at a lifted position before completion of loading of the small cassette and a rotational power transmission device for transmitting a rotational force to the third reel base when the third reel base is held at the lifted position.

Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus having cassette

Tape cassette

A tape cassette for use in a video tape recorder or the like, which includes a cassette main body having an upper case and a lower case fitted to each other to define the main body, and a front cover movably mounted on the cassette main body for covering a magnetic tape stretched along a front face of the cassette main body, and is characterized in that there are provided a protrusion formed at the lower portion of the front cover so as to extend in a direction toward the lower case, and a corresponding protruding portion formed on the lower case so as to extend in a direction toward the magnetic tape, and thus, upon closure of the front cover, the protrusion of the front cover is adapted to be located at a position below the protruding portion of the lower case.

Tape cassette with improved cover structure

An improved standard size video cassette has a top shell and a bottom shell held together so as to define a rectangular casing for storing therein a magnetic tape wound on reels. The bottom shell is formed with a groove having a width sufficiently wide to receive the projection therein with hardly any contact during cassette insertion into or ejection from the holder. An improved reduced size video cassette has a top shell and a bottom shell held together so as to define a rectangular casing for storing therein a magnetic tape wound on reels. The bottom shell is formed with the groove which is located such that a distance between the center of the groove and one end of the rectangular casing is slightly smaller than the distance between a center of the projection and one of the opposite side plates.

Tape cassettes having bottom grooves for use in tape recorder having

A method for positioning a composite head comprising a control head and an audio head in a rotary head type magnetic video recording and reproducing apparatus at a precise spacing relative to a mounting position of the rotary head is disclosed. A video signal is recorded intermittently for each group of a predetermined number of video tracks on a reference tape and an audio signal is also recorded intermittently in association with the intermittently recorded video signal. The composite head is adjusted and positioned such that the intermittent relationship existing between a reproduced video signal and a reproduced audio signal is the same as the intermittent relationship existing between the video signal and audio signal during recording.

Method for adjusting rotary head type magnetic video recording and

A tape wrapping mechanism for a rotary head type VTR wherein a tape pulling post is provided on a rotary ring mounted rotatably on the outer periphery of the cylinder, a rotary ring is rotated so that the post rotates along the outer periphery of the cylinder to pull out the tape from the cassette and wrap it around the cylinder and the rotary force of the rotary ring is such that, when the magnetic tape is wrapped at a predetermined wrapping angle, a pinch roller is automatically pushed toward the capstan with the tape therebetween. With this mechanism, a state capable of recording and reproduction is realized and the abutment of the pinch roller against the capstan is automatically released by a reverse rotation of the rotary ring when switching from the recording-reproduction state to the stop state.

Tape auto-loading recording and reproducing apparatus

A rotary head type magnetic recording and reproducing system of helical scan type is disclosed using a tandem type tape cassette accommodating coaxial supply and take-up reels. At the time of tape loading, a rotary ring carrying a tape take-out post is rotated along the outer periphery of a cylinder including a rotary magnetic head assembly, and with this rotation the take-out post contacts the magnetic tape which is drawn out of the cassette and passed round the cylinder at a predetermined angle.

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Katano, Japan

Hideki Sakumoto