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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 1984
Filed:
Dec. 04, 1981
Hirotoshi Ohno, Yokohama, JP;
Victor Company of Japan, Limited, Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A tape tension sensor is provided to produce an electrical signal indicative of the tension of the running tape of a compact cassette in a tape recorder, and this signal is processed to derive a high frequency component representing the variation in tape velocity. A tape-contactable member is driven by a control signal which is produced on the basis of the high frequency component. In a first embodiment, the tape-contactable member is electromagnetically operated by the control signal so that the member damps or absorbs the vibrations of the tape in the vicinity of the record/reproduce head. A low frequency component may also be derived from the sensor output to produce a second control signal. In the first embodiment, the second control signal is fed to a payoff reel drive motor so that the rotational speed of the payoff reel is controlled to maintain the tension of the tape constant. In a second embodiment, the high frequency component and the low frequency component are added to each other to produce a single control signal which is fed to a motor for driving an upstream capstan of a dual-capstan type tape recorder.
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