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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 23, 1987
Mikiharu Imazaike, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Denki Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Imazaike Seiko Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A cassette changer for automatically inserting and discharging (changing) tape cassettes for a magnetic recording-reproduction apparatus of the front loading type, such as a video tape recorder. The cassette changer has a cassette discharge path for discharging a cassette along a slope when the cassette is ejected from the cassette inlet-outlet opening of the apparatus after recording or reproduction, a cassette insertion path intersecting the discharge path in front of the opening for guiding a new cassette along a horizontal plane into the opening for recording or reproduction, and a separator disposed at the intersection for alternately opening the paths for the discharge and insertion of the cassette.