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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:
Jul. 09, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 04, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Clarion Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
360 85 ; 360 743 ; 360 95 ;
Abstract
In a tape player configured to wind a tape pulled out of a cassette onto a rotary head to play the tape, a tension mechanism includes a mode member to control the position of a tension control member according to a selected tape mode so as to establish relative contact between a tension member and a tape under a constant pressure in a play mode and separate them in a stop mode.