Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Hideo Yokoyama

Seiji Tomita

Shigeo Yamada

A tape player of small size and weight capable of detecting the end of the tape with a simple mechanism and automatically shutting off the tape player when the end of the tape is detected. The tape player includes a drive gear driven by a motor; a fast speed gear, which drives the tape during the rewind and fast forward modes; and a normal speed gear, which drives the tape during the record and playback modes. The drive gear, fast speed gear, and normal speed gear are mounted on the same spindle and are connected by coupling means that cause the gears to rotate together until the end of the tape is reached. The normal speed gear is connected via a friction coupling to a bias lever that forces cam following means on a shut-off lever to follow an eccentric cam on the drive gear. When the end of the tape is reached, one of the coupling means uncouples, the normal speed gear stops rotating, the bias lever releases the shut-off lever, the cam following means engages an engaging part on the drive gear, and the engaging part rotates the shut-off lever to a position where it engages a switch means, cutting off power to the tape player.

Tape player

A tape cassette loading device comprises a chassis on which a tape cassette is mounted, a pair of guide pins protruding from the chassis and capable of being fitted in guide holes of the tape cassette in a loaded position, a taper surface formed around the guide pin at a given height above the chassis so as to be tapered toward the extended end portion of the guide pin, and an ejection mechanism facing the front portion of the bottom surface of the tape cassette in the loaded position and capable of advancing and retreating along the guide pin. In the final ejected position the cassette rests on the upper tapered portion of the guide or guides.

Tape cassette loading and ejection device

A cassette tape recorder comprises a locking mechanism for locking operation sliders for keeping a tape recorder mechanism in a desired operation mode, a stop operation lever for releasing the lock effected by the locking mechanism and for bringing said tape recorder mechanism to a stop mode, an ejecting lever for ejecting a cassette tape in a cassette mounting part of said tape recorder mechanism, and an ejection control mechanism which is controlled by said operation levers, to be non-engageable with respect to said ejecting lever when the operation slider is locked and to be engageable when the operation slider is not locked, said ejection control mechanism operating the ejecting lever to eject the cassette tape through the locking mechanism by a stop operation when it is engageable and when said stop operation lever is operated.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hideo Yokoyama