Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshihiro Kotoda

Kaoru Morinaga

Seiji Tomita

Hiroshi Kawakami

A tape recorder has a forward/reverse switching mechanism for switching tape travel at normal speed in the forward and reverse directions. Tape guides are disposed at two sides of a recording/playback head of the tape recorder. In response to the switching operation of the forward/reverse switching mechanism, a tape guide drive mechanism is driven. When a tape is driven at normal speed in one of the forward or reverse directions, one of the tape guides which is located in the upstream side of the tape travel with respect to the recording/playback head guides the tape, while the other one of the tape guides does not guide the tape.

Cassette tape recorder

Tape recorder

A tape drive spindle for driving a reel hub rotatably mounted within a tape housing of a cartridge type tape. The tape drive spindle is provided with a base member, a spindle shaft member and a resilient joint member interposed between the base member and the spindle shaft member. The base member is adapted for rotation about an axis thereof by a driving source. The spindle shaft member is concentric with the base member and adapted to engage with the reel hub. The resilient joint member couples the spindle shaft member to the base member.

Tape drive spindle

A tape recorder has a forward/reverse switching mechanism for switching between forward travel and reverse travel at normal speed, and a track switching mechanism for supporting a recording/playback head to be pivotal between positions where the recording/playback head is aligned with tracks of the tape in forward travel and reverse travel at normal speed. In response to the switching operation of the forward/reverse switching mechanism, a control lever is pivoted in one direction by a cam portion of a gear to selectively engage projections with projections of a driving shaft to rotate it in different directions. The track switching mechanism is driven by the drive slider which is slid in different directions upon movement of the driving shaft.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yoshihiro Kotoda