Hitachi, Ltd.

Kazumasa Inami

Noboru Katohno

Yasuhiro Hashiguchi

A cassette loading device, wherein, when a rack, formed on a tray supporting a holder for holding a cassette, comes out of mesh with a pinion gear serving as a drive source, the tray itself is engaged with the pinion gear, so that the pinion gear urges the tray, thereby transferring the tray to a position of completion of its horizontal transfer thereby enabling the cassette to be transferred in a stable manner.

Cassette loading device for enabling horizontal transfer of the cassette

Disclosed is a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus including a cassette door openably provided at a cassette port, and a cassette loading mechanism for conveying a cassette between a cassette inserted position and a cassette loaded position. This apparatus further includes a means for detecting the opening of the door of the cassette port; and a control means for starting a cassette unloading operation only if it has been detected by the means for detecting the opening of the door that the door is closed when a cassette unloading trigger button for starting the cassette unloading operation is operated after the cassette has been inserted or loaded.

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Chigasaki, Japan

Kazumasa Inami