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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 1990
Filed:
Mar. 25, 1988
Kazuichi Yamashita, Kyoto, JP;
Teruhisa Yokota, Osaka, JP;
Masaaki Notani, Osaka, JP;
Tsutomu Katsuta, Osaka, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An automatic cassette exchanging system for performing cassette exchange between an information recording/reproducing device such as VTR and a cassette storage device. The automatic cassette exchanging system has a basic unit comprising a box and a fixing type cassette storage case which is placed in line in the box with the information recording/reproducing device so that a robot moving space is formed in the front side portion of the box so as to face cassette entrance and exit ports of the fixing type cassette storage case. A cassette exchanging robot is provided in the robot moving space to be movable orthogonally for the cassette exchange therebetween. The automatic cassette exchanging system allows addition of a unit or units comprising a box which has a robot moving space and a rotatable type cassette storage case whose cassette entrance and exit ports can face the robot moving space. The basic unit box and the addition unit box can be coupled detachably to each other so that their robot moving spaces are coupled to each other, resulting in easy increase of the cassette storage capacity.