Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Terumasa Simizu

Mutsurou Tanoue

Jun Sato

Mitsugu Ogino

Masaya Kano

A cassette deck of a car stereo has at least one capstan and a motor for driving the capstan. An accessory switch is provided in a car provided with the car stereo. A accessory switch detector is provided for detecting closing of the accessory switch. A cassette detector is provided for detecting setting of a cassette to the cassette deck. In response to detection of closing of the accessory switch, and setting of the cassette, the motor is operated for rotating the capstan for a predetermined time.

Cassette deck of a car stereo

An automatic telephone answering apparatus of the type including a tape transport mechanism having an endless loop answering message tape and a recording tape with a record/playback head for recording and playing back previously recorded messages is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a remote control circuit responsive to single frequency remote control signals for distinguishing between a plurality of instructive signals. The remote control circuit accomplishes this by changing time constant circuits in response to time sequential remote control signals.

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Saitama-ken, Japan

Terumasa Simizu