Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Shuzo Takeda

Akio Konishi

Hideaki Yoshio

Yoshiyuki Saito

Hiroshi Kurumatani

Koichiro Hirabayashi

Nobuaki Takagi

Shinji Tanaka

Kazuo Shibukawa

Keisuke Ito

Hisashi Takahashi

Kiyotsugu Hayashi

Kenji Kawamata

Naoki Hashimoto

An apparatus of the present invention is a magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus for pulling out a magnetic tape from a tape cassette, forming a predetermined tape drive system with a group of tape guide posts while winding the magnetic tape around a rotary head cylinder, having a rotary head, for a predetermined arc, so as to perform recording/reproduction of the magnetic tape. The group of tape guide posts include at least one inclination adjustment tape guide post whose inclination angle can be adjusted.

Magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus, with inclination adjusting system

A loading mechanism of a video tape recorder is provided which reduces the thickness of the mechanism for guiding a loading boat along a loading guide. Also, a loading post driving device for a magnetic recording/playback apparatus is provided which can prevent the rotary head cylinder from being damaged or interfered with in its rotation. Furthermore, a loading post holding device which can considerably reduce the height of the device is provided. Additionally, an arrangement of a loading ring guide is provided for loading post driving device to reduce the number of parts used and improve the assembling efficiency of the device.

Loading post driving device having first and second loading rings held

A loading mechanism of a video tape recorder is provided which reduces the thickness of the mechanism for guiding a loading boat along a loading guide. Also, a loading post driving device for a magnetic recording/playback apparatus is provided which can prevent the rotary head cylinder from being damaged or interfered with in its rotation. Furthermore, a loading post holding device which can considerably reduce the height of the device is provided. Additionally, an arrangement of a loading ring guide is provided for a loading post driving device to reduce the number of parts used and improve the assembling efficiency of the device.

Tape loading apparatus with loading post driving device

Loading post driving device

A video recording and playback device with a built-in video camera includes an outer case having the same profile as that of a tape cassette that can be inserted into an exiting stationary video tape recorder. The outer case houses a pair of rotatable reels, a magnetic tape wound around the reels, a magnetic head drum for recording signals on the magnetic tape, magnetic tape guide posts for guiding the magnetic tape to run on and around the magnetic head drum a magnetic tape transport unit for transporting the magnetic tape from one of the reels to the other reel, an imaging unit for producing a video signal representative of an image of an object, a signal recording circuit for processing the video signal from the imaging unit and enabling the magnetic head drum to record the video signal on the magnetic tape, and a power receiving terminal assembly for receiving electric power to energize the motor of the magnetic head drum, the magnetic tape transport unit, the imaging unit, and the signal recording circuit. A recording medium such as a magnetic sheet disk or an optical disk may be employed instead of the magnetic tape.

Video recording and playback device with built-in video camera in an

Disclosed is a tape loading device of a video tape recorder provided with an inclined video head cylinder and a capstan. The tape loading device includes a first guide member for feeding a tape on a horizontal path to the inclined video head cylinder, a second guide member for taking out the tape from the video head cylinder, and a third guide member for guiding the tape having passed the second guide member. The first, second and third guide members move along the video head cylinder and are in contact with the internal surface of the tape during the tape loading operation. The tape loading device further includes a fourth guide member for restoring the tape from an inclined path to a horizontal path during the tape loading operation by contacting the external surface of the tape, and an auxiliary inclined member for moving the tape inwardly during the tape loading operation so that the tape may be restored from an inclined path to a horizontal path. The auxiliary inclined member functions to make large the tape winding angle with respect to the third guide member. After the tape loading operation, a tape path is completed along the first guide member, the video head cylinder, the second, third and fourth members, and the capstan.

Tape loading device of a video tape recorder having a linkage driven

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Shuzo Takeda