Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Satoshi Ohoka

Seiji Tomita

Katsuya Hirakui

A full cassette and a C cassette having different shapes and different dimensions are received in a tray moved to a cassette inserting position, with their feed reels coaxially positioned. As a tray is moved by a tray moving mechanism, the full cassette and C cassette are moved to a tape driving position while being protected by the tray and their feed reels are mounted on a common feed reel stand at the tape driving position. As the feed reel stand can be shared by the full cassette and C cassette, a cassette loading device can have a simple structure.

Cassette loading device for loading tape cassette having different

A feed reel and a take-up reel of a full-size cassette are mounted directly on a feed reel table and a take-up reel table which constitute a tape running system. A feed reel of a C-cassette (compact cassette) is mounted directly on the feed reel table, while a take-up reel of the C-cassette receives a driving force transmitted from the take-up reel table through a torque transmitting mechanism. The full-size cassette is driven directly by the feed and take-up reel tables in the state wherein the tape is loaded by a tape loading member, so that a tape of the full-size cassette is run. On the other hand, in the state wherein a tape in the C-cassette is loaded by the tape loading member, the C-cassette is driven such that the feed reel of the C-cassette is rotated by the feed reel table while the take-up reel of the C-cassette receives a driving force from the take-up reel table 14 through the torque transmitting mechanism. Thus, the tape in the C-cassette is run.

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Yokohama, Japan

Satoshi Ohoka