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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 1985
Filed:
Aug. 31, 1984
Tetsuji Yoshii, Neyagawa, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Kadoma, JP;
Abstract
This invention provides a tape cassette with a cover movable for opening-closing provided in front of cassette halves, which is suitable particularly as an audio tape cassette. The tape cassette of this invention has a cover which makes opening-closing of the front opening part of the cassette body by its turning up- or down-ward, and an engaging holes with which the rotary shafts provided on the cover freely engage being provided in the sides of the aforementioned cassette body, said engaging hole having two sides tapering toward rear of the cassette body, and includes a means for urging the aforementioned rotary shafts of the cover to the rear of the cassette body. This structure permits opening of the front opening part of the tape cassette by turning the cover, whether the tape cassette is inserted in a cassette recorder with its front face (face A) or back face (face B) turned upward.