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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 1986
Filed:
Apr. 26, 1983
Seiichiro Matsuki, Kawagoe, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cassette tape recording/reproducing apparatus of the automatic cassette loading type wherein a cassette casing inserted into a cassette inlet of the apparatus is automatically rested on reel bases. A frictional feed roller is disposed adjacent the cassette inlet and adapted to be forced down by the cassette casing being inserted. A drive for imparting a rotational force to the feed roller includes a motor and a gear train interconnecting the motor to the feed roller. A control element responds to the forcing down of the feed roller to actuate the motor to rotate the feed roller, thereby fricationally carrying the cassette casing into the interior of the apparatus. A pair of loading and unloading plates pivoted on a shaft serves to move down the cassette casing which has been carried in place by the feed roller, thereby resting the cassette casing on the reel bases in mating relationship. The gear train selectively interconnects the motor to the feed roller and to one of the reel bases, and in response to the resting of the cassette casing on the reel bases, the motor is disconnected from the feed roller and concurrently interconnected to one of the reel bases through the gear train.