Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Makino

Takashi Ando

Yoshinobu Kishimoto

Tetsuki Asaoka

A cassette loading apparatus including a cassette guide provided adjacent to an insertion opening of a tape cassette, a cassette holder, a pair of said plates for guiding the cassette holder during displacement thereof and a chassis having the cassette guide secured thereto, is characterized in that the side plates are mounted on the cassette guide from above with at least one portion of each of the side plates secured to the cassette guide and at least another portion of each of the side plates secured to the chassis.

Cassette loading apparatus

In a cassette loading apparatus used for carrying a tape cassette from an unloading position to a loading position, cutouts are made in side plates to be continuous to L-shaped guide slots made therein so that the cassette holder unit having outwardly projecting pins can be inserted from the top when assembling the same with the side plates. After the cassette holder unit is assembled, a top plate having projecting plates may be attached to the side plates so that the cutouts are filled with the projecting plates. The projecting plates have rounded corners for smooth movement of the projecting pins along the L-shaped guide slots.

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Osaka, Japan

Yoshihiro Makino