Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Hiroshi Inoue

Osamu Maeda

Yoshio Higuchi

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Toshiaki Irie

Hideo Makino

Seiji Mori

Masami Okada

An electric apparatus such as a recording apparatus, having a cabinet. The cabinet includes a chassis case and an upper cover, the chassis case having a medium inserting opening in a front surface thereof. The cabinet accommodates therein at least a printed wiring board and a mechanical deck. The printed wiring board mounts thereon electronic parts for system control and the mechanical deck mounts thereon medium and head drive mechanisms, the mechanical deck being arranged at a predetermined position on the board. The upper cover of the cabinet is made of a synthetic resin material.

Electric apparatus having a synthetic resin upper cover and shield plate

A tape end detecting device for detecting the end of the tape enclosed within a cassette includes a light emitting element for generating a light pulse signal, a pair of light receiving element, a light guide means comprising a central prism and a pair of side prisms disposed at both sides of said cassette loaded in position, and a tape end signal generating circuit adopted for generating a tape end detecting signal only when it receives the light pulse signal. Therefore, the tape end detecting device operates to generate an output upon receipt of the light signal, but does not generate when the light coming from outside is received.

Tape end detecting device for tape decks using center and side prisms

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Daito, Japan

Hiroshi Inoue