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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 1990
Filed:
Feb. 17, 1989
Masahiro Moriyama, Daito, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi, JP;
Abstract
In a signal recording-reproduction apparatus having a reel chassis slidably mounted on a main chassis, a reel support drive device transmits the rotation of a capstan motor serving as a power source to one of two reel supports through a swing idler mechanism on the main chassis and through a gear mechanism on the reel chassis. The gear mechanism includes at least two gears rotatable in the same direction and arranged along the sliding direction of the reel chassis. As the reel chassis slides along away from the head cylinder of the apparatus, an idle gear comes into meshing engagement with each of the two gears one after another to continue the rotation of the above reel support, whereby the magnetic tape pulled out around the head cylinder is wound up inside the tape cassette during the sliding movement of the reel chassis.