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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 1988
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1986
Masahiro Shibata, Tokyo, JP;
Tatsuo Tsujibayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroyuki Sato, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Machida, Tokyo, JP;
Sony, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A video tape recorder for recording a plurality of skewed recording tracks on a video tape includes a recording head, an auxiliary head and an erasing head mounted on a rotary body of a tape guide drum about which the tape is helically wrapped, a rotary transformer for transmitting signals to the recording head, auxiliary head and erasing head rotating with the rotary body, an erase signal generator for generating an earsing signal to be supplied to the erasing head by way of the rotary transformer, and a short circuit arrangement coupled to a signal path connected with the auxiliary head for short circuiting the latter upon applying the erasing signal form the erase signal generator to the erasing head by way of the rotary transformer.