Imazaike Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Denkisangyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Mikiharu Imazaike

Yoshiyuki Miyake

Hironori Iwamoto

Keiji Hata

Yoshikazu Okada

A massage device has first and second massage members. The first massage member performs a circulating motion including (i) a massage zone where the member approaches the second massage member in a locus which swells in an outward direction as seen from a massage arm; and (ii) a release zone where the member separates from the second massage member in a locus which is shorter than the massage zone. The second massage member performs a reciprocal rocking motion in synchronization with the first massage member.

Massage device

A cassette changer is mountable on a magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus having a cassette inlet-outlet opening. The cassette changer includes a cassette shifter which shifts a new cassette from a stand-by position above the cassette inlet-outlet opening to an insertion position facing the cassette inlet-outlet opening, and a cassette mover which inserts and withdraws a cassette into and from the magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus through the cassette inlet-outlet opening. The cassette mover is provided with a pair of rollers on both sides of the cassette, a roller shifter which shifts the rollers between an operative position to come into contact with the sides of the cassette to insert and withdraw the cassette and an inoperative position displaced from the sides of the cassette to allow the cassette to be shifted by the cassette shifter; and a roller driver which drives the rollers in forward and backward directions to insert and withdraw the cassette.

Automatic cassette changer including shiftable driven rollers for a

A cassette changer is mountable on a magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus having a cassette inlet-outlet opening. The cassette changer includes a new cassette housing portion for housing a new cassette to be inserted into the cassette inlet-outlet opening for recording or reproduction, a processed cassette housing portion provided below the new cassette housing portion for housing a processed cassette discharged from the cassette inlet-outlet opening after recording or reproduction, and a separator provided in a boundary portion of the new cassette housing portion and the processed cassette housing portion. The separator is pivotable between a cassette discharge position where only the processed cassette housing portion faces the cassette inlet-outlet opening with the new cassette in the new cassette housing portion being supported thereon and a cassette insertion position where the separator is pivoted downwardly from the cassette discharge position by the weight of the new cassette and only the new cassette housing portion faces the cassette inlet-outlet opening. A cassette withdrawing device transfers the processed cassette from the cassette inlet-outlet opening into the processed cassette housing portion when the separator is set in the cassette discharge position. A cassette insertion device transfer the new cassette from the new cassette housing portion to the cassette inlet-outlet opening when the separator is set in the cassette insertion position.

Automatic cassette changer for front loading type magnetic

A cassette changer for automatically inserting and discharging (changing) tape cassettes for a magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus of the front loading type, such as a video tape recorder. The cassette changer has a cassette discharge path for discharging a cassette along a slope when the cassette is ejected from the cassette inlet-outlet opening of the apparatus after recording or reproduction, a cassette insertion path intersecting the discharge path in front of the opening for guiding a new cassette along a horizontal plane into the opening for recording or reproduction, and a separator disposed at the intersection for alternately opening the paths for the discharge and insertion of the cassette.

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Osaka, Japan

Mikiharu Imazaike