Hitachi, Ltd.

Hitachi Video Engineering, Incorporated

Yosiharu Yamasita

Ikuo Nishida

Hidekazu Takeda

Masao Iwakura

Tetsuo Itou

Motonori Ohmori

Koji Iyota

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

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Katsuta, Japan

Yosiharu Yamasita