Mitsumi Electric Company Ltd.

Hewlett-packard Company

Ryoichi Annen

Kazuya Tamura

Kazuhide Murase

Keiichi Setsumasa

Hirofumi Asai

Nobutaka Tsuneyoshi

Hugo William Maule

Minenori Nagasaka

Shinji Muta

Naoki Ode

Peter J Steven

A power generating device includes a power generating part, a sliding member, first, second and third elastic parts, and a connecting member. When the sliding member is caused to move to a first storage completion position by an operation that causes the connecting member to rotate, the connecting member and the sliding member are disconnected so that the sliding member is caused to move in a first direction by an elastic force stored in the second elastic part. The connecting member is caused to rotate by an elastic force stored in the third elastic part. When the sliding member is caused to move to a second storage completion position by the third elastic part, the connecting member and the sliding member are disconnected so that the sliding member is caused to move in a second direction by an elastic force stored in the first elastic part.

Power generating device and switch

A disclosed cartridge holder apparatus includes: a cartridge supporting member having a lateral plate portion and side plate portions on both sides thereof; a cartridge upper surface supporting member disposed between the side plate portions on both sides of the cartridge supporting member; a support mechanism of a cartridge upper surface supporting member for supporting the cartridge upper surface supporting member so as to form a cartridge housing space in accordance with an inserted cartridge; and a cartridge gripping mechanism supported by the cartridge upper surface supporting member and the support mechanism of a cartridge upper surface supporting member. The cartridge gripping mechanism changes positions in the vertical direction, while a locking portion for locking a lock-receiving portion of an inserted cartridge maintains a position in a cartridge insertion direction.

Cartridge holder apparatus and magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus including same

A cartridge slot door mechanism is disclosed that covers a cartridge slot arranged at a front panel of a frame. The cartridge slot door mechanism includes an upper door having an upper side supported by the front panel, and a lower door having a lower side supported by the front panel. The upper door and the lower door are configured to open toward the inner side of the frame, and a lower side portion of the upper door and an upper side portion of the lower door are arranged to overlap.

Cartridge slot door mechanism for covering cartridge slot

A cartridge holder is disclosed that includes a cartridge supporting member that supports an inserted cartridge corresponding to a first cartridge or a thicker second cartridge; a cartridge upper face holding member that is normally positioned at a first height position for holding down the first cartridge; a cartridge upper face holding member supporting mechanism configured to move the cartridge upper face holding member with respect to the cartridge supporting member; and a lock mechanism configured to lock the cartridge upper face holding member in the first height position. The cartridge supporting member and the cartridge upper face holding member define a cartridge accommodating space. The lock mechanism remains locked when the first cartridge is inserted, and unlocks when the second cartridge is inserted. When the second cartridge is inserted, the cartridge upper face holding member is raised, and the size of the cartridge accommodating space is changed.

Cartridge holder with a cartridge height position locking mechanism accommodating tape cartridges of differing tape widths

A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus is disclosed that is arranged to receive a tape cassette accommodating a tape recording medium that is selectively loaded thereto. The loaded tape cassette is selected from plural types of tape cassettes accommodating tape recording media with differing widths. The magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus includes a rotating drum unit with a rotating head, and a loading mechanism that pulls the tape recording medium of the loaded tape cassette out of the loaded tape cassette, winds the tape recording medium of the loaded tape cassette around the rotating drum unit over a winding angle, and forms a tape path. The loading mechanism adjusts the winding angle for winding the tape recording medium of the loaded tape cassette according to the width of the tape recording medium of the loaded tape cassette.

Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus

A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus is disclosed that is arranged to receive a tape cassette accommodating a tape recording medium that is selectively loaded thereto, the loaded tape cassette being selected from plural different types of tape cassettes of different sizes. The apparatus includes a rotating drum unit having a rotating head, and plural loading poles that are configured to pull the tape recording medium of the loaded tape cassette out of the loaded tape cassette, wind the tape recording medium of the loaded tape cassette around the rotating drum unit, and form a tape path. The loading poles include a common loading pole that is used when any one of the different types of tape cassettes is loaded, and an individual loading pole that is used when a predetermined type of tape cassette of the different types of tape cassettes is loaded.

A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus is disclosed that is arranged to receive a tape cassette accommodating a tape recording medium that is selectively loaded thereto. The apparatus includes a rotating drum unit having a rotating head, and a loading mechanism that is configured to pull the tape recording medium of the loaded tape cassette out of the loaded tape cassette, wind the tape recording medium around the rotating drum unit, and form a tape path. The loading mechanism includes a short loading pole that is adapted for a first tape cassette accommodating a narrow tape recording medium and a long loading pole that is adapted for a second tape cassette accommodating a wide tape recording medium, which short pole and long pole are positioned at the same height, and a loading pole raising mechanism that is configured to raise the long loading pole when the second tape cassette is loaded.

A tape guiding pole angle adjusting mechanism for a magnetic tape recording/reproducing apparatus including a base portion, a tape guiding pole, a sub-arm on which the tape guiding pole is fixed, a sub-arm supporting mechanism, and an adjusting screw mechanism. The sub-arm supporting mechanism supports the sub-arm in a manner making an inclination angle of the tape guiding pole changeable, and the adjusting screw mechanism is capable of making a fine adjustment of an inclination angle of the tape guiding pole.

Tape guiding pole angle adjusting mechanism

A magnetic tape apparatus includes a head which reproduces data from or records data onto a magnetic tape, taken out from a cassette, when the tape is running. A supply reel shaft rotates a supply reel to supply the tape from the cassette to the head. A take-up reel shaft rotates a take-up reel to wind the tape from the head around the take-up reel. A back tension applying mechanism has a brake part which presses the supply reel shaft to produce a braking force on the supply reel shaft, the back tension applying mechanism applying a back tension to the tape when the braking force is produced. A pressing force varying mechanism controls a pressing force of the brake part on the supply reel shaft such that the pressing force is maintained at an appropriate level for a type of cassette.

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Atsugi, Japan

Ryoichi Annen