Sony Corporation

Hosiden Electronics Co., Ltd.

Mitsuo Hoshino

Osamu Fukushima

Toshio Kakuta

Takashi Yamamoto

Takashi Masuda

Yuji Morimiya

Takashi Kawaguchi

Mitsuhiro Shimada

Yoshihiro Ide

Yuichiro Nogo

Yoshitaka Matsumoto

Yuka Tsutsumi

Atsushi Nakanishi

Hiroshi Yoneya

A magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a main body having a surface forming a gripping surface and also having a cassette insertion port through which a tape cassette can be loaded or unloaded, a cassette holder pivotally supported inside the main body of the device for holding the tape cassette and storing it at a tape cassette loaded position within the main body, a lid member for opening or closing the cassette insertion port as the cassette holder pivots and for forming part of the grip part when the cassette insertion port is closed, and a resilient member coupled to the cassette holder and the lid member for biasing the lid member toward the cassette holder when the cassette holder is stored at the tape cassette loaded position so that the circumferencial edge of the lid member abuts the circumferential edge of the cassette insertion port.

Magnetic recording and reproducing device having a lid member which

A unified compact video camera and video cassette recording and/or reproducing apparatus (VCR) has a video camera unit and a VCR unit which includes a cassette holder arranged in a common hollow body at opposite sides of its median plane, and a grip strap extends along the body at the outside of the cassette holder so that the opposite side of the body is available for the positioning thereat of various control switches for operating the video camera and VCR units.

Unified compact video camera and VCR

A feed screw (3) is coupled to a stepping motor (2) and a moving member (4) is provided along the feed screw (3). The moving member (4) includes a rack (7) that is meshed with the feed screw (3). The moving member (4) has a lens supporting member (9) secured to its lower end, and a light emitting element (13) and a slit (4) are fixed to the lens supporting member (9). A semiconductor position detecting element (15) is secured within a lens housing in association with the slit (14). If the position of a lens (L) is fluctuated by a shock or the like when or after an image is properly focused, a distance in which a light passed through the slit (14) from the light emitting element (13) is moved on the semiconductor position detecting element (15) is electrically converted to drive the motor (2), thereby the lens (L) being recovered to the properly-focused position. The number of teeth of the feed screw in which the teeth are skipped when the rack is disengaged is determined precisely. Then, the lens is moved by the distance corresponding to the fluctuated amount and is returned to the properly-focused position. Also, an electric power consumption can be reduced on the whole and the size of the whole of the apparatus can be reduced.

Position recovery apparatus for inner focus lens

A multiconnector includes a body composed of first, second and third blocks, the first and second blocks being joined at their ends with an insertion slot being defined therebetween for insertion therein or removal therefrom of a companion connector. The third block is fitted in the insertion slot on one side thereof and sandwiches the first and second blocks to keep them joined together. At least one of the first and second blocks support a plurality of contacts arrayed in the longitudinal direction thereof and disposed respectively in guide grooves in the insertion slot. The contacts have free end portions held in resilient engagement with the third block and hence preloaded for reliable and stable electric contact with contacts of the companion connector inserted in the insertion slot. After the contacts are retained on the block or blocks, the first, second and third blocks are combined and assembled together.

Three-piece multiconnector

A connector for making electrical connections to the terminals of an integrated circuit comprises a plurality of ribs formed integrally with a rectangular-prism-shaped base at regular intervals in its lengthwise direction to extend across the top surface of the base. Contacts are each housed and retained between adjacent ones of the ribs and conductors for connection are respectively placed on the contacts. By assembling a cover of an insulating material with the base to cover its top surface, a slider made of metal and attached to the cover is slightly moved back and forth for engagement with the base, locking the cover with the base.

Integrated circuit socket having an improved cover

A tape cassette for a magnetic recording and/or reproducing apparatus has at least one reel contained in a housing formed with an opening through which a tape wound on a reel can be withdrawn from the cassette housing for recording of signals thereon or reproducing the signals therefrom, and a lid is provided to move between a closed position covering the housing opening and an opened position exposing the housing opening. The lid is pivoted on the housing by means of a pair of pins which are formed on ear portions directed rearwardly from opposite ends of the lid and a pair of arcuated grooves receiving the pair of pins, respectively, and which are formed on side walls of the housing.

Tape cassette

A connector body has a plurality of contacts and a plug hole made in a front face of the connector for receiving a plug. Terminals connected to the contacts are led out to extend perpendicularly to the lengthwise direction of the plug hole along a side surface of the connector body adjacent the front face in which the plug hole is made. The outer peripheral surface of the connector body is shaped to permit control of the depth of insertion of the connector body into a connector insertion hole in a printed-circuit board. The actual insertion depth is determined by selection of the shape of the connector insertion hole in the printed-circuit board, by which the connector terminals can be connected to laminar conductors deposited on either one or both of the surfaces of the printed-circuit board.

Connector

A cassette adapter for use with an information signal recording and/or reproducing apparatus and adapted to receive a smaller cassette containing magnetic tape wound on normally locked supply and take-up reels comprises a rotational force transmission device for winding the magnetic tape on the take-up reel, and a crank device connected to the rotational force transmission device for withdrawing the magnetic tape from the smaller cassette. A reel release device can be provided to operate in synchronism with the crank device, the reel release device being operative to a first position for releasing one of the reels for rotation, and being operative to a second position for releasing both of the reels for rotation. The rotational force transmission device can control movement of the take-up reel during a rewind operation sufficient to maintain the magnetic tape in a continuously tensioned state.

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Saitama, Japan

Mitsuo Hoshino