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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 09, 1982
Nobuo Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Technical Incorporated, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cassette tape recorder with mechanical soft touch operating mechanism which includes a base body with a push button holder or mechanism at one side thereof with a group of operating button levers which include a pause button lever, a play button lever and a fast/forward button lever, a rewind button lever, a record button lever and a stop button lever and includes four notched cam gears mounted in pairs with one of the cam gears coupled to the pause button lever another cam gear coupled to the fast/forward button lever and the first pair of cam gears mounted adjacent each other on the same shaft and adapted to separately engage a gear which is coaxial with a fly wheel that is rotated by a motor. A second pair of notched cam gears are mounted on top of each other with the first one coupled to the play button lever and the second one coupled to the record button lever and the second pair of cam gears are also adapted to engage a driving gear such that when the operating button levers are depressed, the associated notched cam gears are respectively moved and turned a given angle by the driving gear so as to move a head base. A stop button lever is mounted on the push button holder such that when the stop button lever is depressed it releases the plurality of operating button levers from their locked condition.