Funai Electric Company Ltd.

Seiji Mori

Hiroshi Kobayashi

Osamu Maeda

Yoshio Higuchi

Hiroshi Hamahata

Hideo Makino

Hiroshi Inoue

Masami Okada

A device for loading and unloading a tape cassette includes a cam disc rotatably supported to a chassis and at least one guide route disposed thereon and extending from near the rotating axis of the cam disc to the periphery thereof so as to be topologically shifted in the rotating direction, and a swinging arm pivoted to the chassis and having a cam follow pin received in the guide route. The tape cassette is transported together with the cassette holder from an inlet port to the tape deck and vice versa. A shift member is adapted to retractively guide the cassette holder by cooperating with the swinging arm.

Device using cam-based movements to load and unload a tape cassette

A tape end detecting device for detecting the end of the tape enclosed within a cassette includes a light emitting element for generating a light pulse signal, a pair of light receiving element, a light guide means comprising a central prism and a pair of side prisms disposed at both sides of said cassette loaded in position, and a tape end signal generating circuit adopted for generating a tape end detecting signal only when it receives the light pulse signal. Therefore, the tape end detecting device operates to generate an output upon receipt of the light signal, but does not generate when the light coming from outside is received.

Tape end detecting device for tape decks using center and side prisms

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Daito, Japan

Seiji Mori