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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 1991
Filed:
Oct. 01, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
Takashi Kikuchi, Iwaki, JP;
Shigeo Aoyagi, Iwaki, JP;
Assignee:
Alpine Electronics Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 92 ;
Abstract
A tape container in an automatic tape cassette changer for holding a plurality of cassette tapes. The tape container having holes in its partition walls corresponding to locations adjacent to the hubs in each cassette tape, such that a hub locking mechanism is capable of passing through the holes to engage the hubs of the cassette tapes disposed in the tape container. The hub locking mechanism is a rod member having a protrusion engagable with a protrusion in the hub of the cassette tapes disposed in the tape container. The rod member has an end portion which is tapered.