Sony Corporation

Minoru Shimada

Mitsuru Ida

Takashi Fukushima

Noboru Sekiguchi

Tokio Kanada

Kazuhiro Abe

Akio Kimura

Toshio Toyama

Takanori Arai

Hiroji Kameda

Hisashi Naoshima

Hideyuki Hirano

Kazuhisa Mochida

Akihiro Koga

Fumio Matsumoto

Yusuke Masutani

Mitsuo Inoue

Katsumi Togasaki

Tetsuya Yonemoto

Kenji Ishihara

Katsumi Morita

Syunji Aoki

An electronics packaging system () including a printer (), a placing unit () and a reflow unit (), wherein a printed wiring board () is carried while being kept in an upright position. The printed wiring board () has solder printed on all the lands thereof at the same time, the electronic parts () are all placed on the lands at the same time, and the electronic parts () are all soldered to the lands at the same time. Thus, the system () can be designed more compact, and the electronic parts packaged in a shorter time.

System for mounting electronic device

A head pad having a drawing face which draws a flexible disk used for an electronic still camera, for example, by negative pressure and which is made so that the head, which moves along the radial direction of the disk so as to record or reproduce data on the disk, projects out on the drawing face, wherein said depressions are formed in the drawing face around the head and corner portions of the bottom faces of the depressions are further cut away to form undercut portions, thus facilitating generation of a greater negative pressure between the disk and the pad drawing face and enabling greater improvement of the head touch and enabling greater stabilization of the drawing force of the disk by the pad. Also, a process for production of the above head pad wherein one face of a plate material is polished to form the drawing face and then is etched to form depressions around the head and undercut portions at the corner portions of bottom faces of the depressions, whereby it becomes possible to mass produce high precision pads and it becomes possible to greatly reduce the cost of the manufacture of the pads.

Head pad and process for production of same

A cassette tape player is provided with a casing defining a compartment for receiving a cassette and including a hollow, box-like structure extending only partly across the casing to confront a corresponding portion of a long side of the cassette housing in the compartment, a battery receptacle extending longitudinally from the hollow, box-like structure across substantially the remainder of the casing for receiving at least one elongated cylindrical battery with the longitudinal axis of the latter extending parallel with the long side of the cassette housing in the compartment, and a closure engageable with the battery receptacle for retaining and locating said at least one battery in the receptacle and being configured to define, with the receptacle, a box-like extension of the hollow box-like structure which cooperates with the latter to define a substantially continuous surface for locating the cassette housing in the compartment.

Battery holder of single head minimum size cassette tape player

A mechanism for use in a cassette tape recorder automatically changes the mode of the recorder when the end of the tape is reached by sensing the cessation of rotation of the pinch roller. A mode change lever having an elongated hole with converging sides that receives a cylindrical portion of the pinch roller is biased by a spring so that the cylindrical portion engages the converging sides and the mode-change lever tends to rotate in a first direction. Once the pinch roller ceases to rotate, the mode-change lever is moved in a direction opposite the first direction and so that it cooperates with a mode-change drive assembly rotated by the capstan. The mode-change lever is then displaced and releases a mode key, so that the mode of the recorder is changed and is typically shut off.

Automatic mode-change mechanism for tape recorder

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Saitama, Japan

Minoru Shimada