Tdk Corporation

Kenkichi Akaoka

Haruo Shiba

Kimio Tanaka

Takateru Satoh

Noboru Uemura

Masatoshi Okamura

Masaru Ikebe

A tape cassette is provided which is so constructed that a plurality of weighting members are fittedly held in fitting apertures or recesses of a casing formed at corners of the casing in a detachable manner while being exposed at part thereof on a surface of the casing. Such construction of the cassette not only permits the cassette to exhibit optimum vibration-damping properties to ensure satisfactory recording and reproducing of the cassette and contributes an improvement in mechanical strength of the cassette but provides the cassette with a variation in design sufficient to exhibit good aesthetic properties, to thereby increase a merchandise value of the cassette.

Tape cassette

A disc cartridge capable of ensuring its stable and positive operation without damaging a disc while satisfactorily producing a cleaning effect and maintaining adequate contact between the head of a cartridge operating unit and the disc. Each of a pair elastic members respectively mounted on the upper and lower inner surfaces of a casing forcibly presses a sheet-like liner situated between the elastic member and a disc against the disc through a projection portion having a predetermined length formed as part of the elastic member, resulting in the liner contacting the disc with a force at substantially a constant level for a long period of time.

Disc cartridge having a liner and an elastic member for maintaining the

A tape cassette capable of ensuring firm joining between different resin layers of a casing and exhibiting a good aesthetic property. The tape cassette includes a casing consisting of upper casing member and lower casing member which are integrally made into a two-layer structure of a primary resin layer and a secondary resin layer integrally formed by two-layer molding. The secondary resin layer is formed with a plurality of penetrations and the primary resin layer is joined to the secondary resin layer in a manner to be fitted in the penetrations, resulting in being integral with the secondary resin layer.

A tape pad for a magnetic tape cassette is placed in the running path of a magnetic tape held in a casing so as to be in press-contact with said magnetic tape. The tape pad has a one piece structure of a tape contacting part and an elastic part for supporting the tape contacting part by molding carbon-containing polyethylene terephthalate.

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Kenkichi Akaoka