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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 1991
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1989
Takateru Satoh, Nagano, JP;
Kenji Hashizume, Nagano, JP;
Morimasa Sasaki, Nagano, JP;
Kimio Tanaka, Nagano, JP;
TDK Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A cleaning cassette capable of accomplishing a safe and positive cleaning operation while ensuring smooth and stable running of a cleaning tape. The cleaning cassette includes a tape passing mechanism arranged at a front portion of a casing for ensuring satisfactory traveling of the cleaning tape while reducing contact between the cleaning tape and a head cylinder of a cassette tape deck. The mechanism includes a pair of rollers through which the cleaning tape is passed, a support member for supporting each of the rollers at each of its respective ends such that each roller can rotate and a pair of partitions provided between insertion recesses of the casing. The support member on which the rollers are supported in a manner to be laterally spaced from each other is loosely fitted between the partitions so as to reciprocatively movable in a longitudinal direction of the casing or protrude from the casing and retract into the casing when loading and unloading of the cassette with respect to the cassette tape deck is carried out, respectively.