Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Panasonic Corporation

Hitachi Engineering Ltd

Tetsuo Itou

Hidekazu Takeda

Masao Iwakura

Ikuo Nishida

Koji Iyota

Motonori Ohmori

Nobuo Masuoka

Yoshiharu Yamashita

Toshio Osada

Yukihiro Nakazawa

Yosiharu Yamasita

A microphone has a slide member and a push member. The slide member has a slide knob, and a conductive state and a nonconductive state are switched according to operation of the slide knob. The push member holds a switch in the conductive state while a push button is pushed. A mechanism interlocking of the slide member and the push member is provided and interlocks operation of the slide member with the push member by converting movement of the slide member in a sliding direction into movement of the push member in a pushing direction, the slide knob and the push button are separated from each other in the sliding direction.

Microphone device

A tape running guide and tape loading mechanism for a magnetic tape recording and reproducing apparatus including a tape guiding system having, at a tape supply side, at least a first movable slanted pin and a first movable tape height regulating guide roller for deriving a tape from an open space of a magnetic tape cassette and winding the tape on a cylindrical drum, a second slanted pin and a second tape height regulating guide roller and third movable guide pin for winding the tape on the second slanted pin. At a tape returning side, a fourth movable slanted pin and a fourth movable tape height regulating guide roller for deriving the magnetic tape from the open space of the tape cassette and winding the magnetic tape on the cylindrical drum a fifth movable slanted pin and a pinch roller which are to be derived from the open space of the tape cassette and a capstan in arranged outside the open space. The movable tape guide members are movable in the common area and a time-shared manner to thereby make the loading mechanism compact.

Magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus including S fixed chassis

A slide type cassette loading apparatus includes a loading section for receiving a tape cassette to move the same between an inlet/outlet position and a reference position for loading, and a movable chassis for sliding the cassette, located in the reference position, to a recording/reproducing position while carrying the cassette on the movable chassis. The loading section is of a double structure type which has an outer cassette holder pivotable relative to the movable chassis and an inner cassette holder supported to the outer cassette holder. The inner cassette holder is mounted on the outer cassette holder so as to make a pivotal movement together with the outer cassette holder and be movable in slide directions of the cassette, and is operatively coupled to the movable chassis so as to be movable together with the movable chassis.

Cassette loading apparatus having an inner cassette holder supported on

A rotary head device having a rotary drum and a rotating motor within the rotary drum, with the stator of the motor being supported by a fixed arm attached to a fixed drum or to a fixed drum supporting member. The construction permits the manufacture of the rotary head device using the manufacturing equipment used for conventional rotary shaft type rotary head devices despite the rotary head device being a thin device. In this rotary head device the position of contact of a ground brush and a rotor can be set at the center of rotation or thereabouts, so despite it being a thin device, the sliding speed of the ground brush is low, and hence it is possible to prevent the abrasion of the ground brush and also to prevent increase of the rotative driving torque.

Rotary head device having a motor within the rotary drum, and magnetic

A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus has a chassis, a rotary cylinder mounted on the chassis, and at least one guide base movably disposed around the rotary cylinder. The guide base is provided with a guide member for drawing out a magnetic tape from a tape cassette. The guide member draws out the magnetic tape from the tape cassette, as the guide base is being moved, and winds the magnetic tape around the rotary cylinder so that a predetermined tape passage is defined. The magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus further has a capstan mechanism for driving the magnetic tape to run the same. The capstan mechanism is arranged on the same side of the chassis on which the rotary cylinder is disposed, and has a capstan downwards extending toward the chassis to come into direct contact with the magnetic tape.

Capstan arrangement for a magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus

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Tetsuo Itou