Sony Corporation

Sony Deutschland Gmbh

Shojiro Asami

Kazuhiro Sato

Hidehiko Funayama

Jinichi Morimura

Hiroshi Dohi

Akio Hitachi

Masato Nakamura

Hiroshi Sumihiro

Kazuo Ozawa

Tetsuo Sawa

Yoshiaki Obama

An autochanger which can continuously operate a video printing apparatus without having recourse to intervention by an operator which includes a paper feed tray for containing a plurality of recording media and/or an ink ribbon cartridge are loaded in the video printer device to selectively change them as the occasion demands, a magazine which can contain a plurality of paper feed trays and/or ink ribbon cartridges and a conveyance means of paper feed tray and/or ink ribbon cartridge for conveying the paper feed tray and/or the ink ribbon cartridge between the video printer device and the magazine. Therefore, the paper feed tray and the ink ribbon cartridge of the video printer device can be changed by the conveyance means as the occasion demands, so as to realize an autochanger which can continuously operate a video printer device without having recourse to intervention by an operator.

Printing apparatus and autocharger thereof

Printing apparatus and autochanger thereof

In a floppy disc cassette loading apparatus, a cassette holder is moved between loading and unloading positions. In order to prevent an erroneous ejection of a floppy disc cassette from the cassette holder, a cassette ejection arm is unlocked after the cassette holder is lifted up to a predetermined position.

Disc cassette loading apparatus

A flexible magnetic disc cassette carries a normally closed automatic slide shutter which selectively covers head access holes provided on the cover of the disc cassette. Basically, such disc cassette is designed for use with a disc drive mechanically which carries an automatic shutter opening system. In order to be able to use such cassette with a disc drive having no such automatic shutter opening system, the shutter is arranged to move on said cover to an extended position where the shutter is latched in an extended open position. Apparatus is provided which automatically operates the shutter of the cassette upon insertion of the cassette into the disc drive.

Flexible magnetic disc cassette

A floppy disc is contained in a relatively hard encasement. In order to improve the function of a cleaning sheet installed in the floppy disc cassette encasement, a flexible pressure member is provided on an inside of the cassette which presses a portion of the cleaning sheet against the recording surface of the floppy disc.

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Atsugi, Japan

Shojiro Asami