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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 1992
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1990
Shigemi Asai, Nara, JP;
Masanobu Furukawa, Nara, JP;
Shigeaki Kakiwaki, Nara, JP;
Tadashi Iwamatsu, Nara, JP;
Tohru Okuda, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus utilizing a magnetic tape in a cassette, the tape being driven by reels and information data being recorded or reproduced on or from the magnetic tape. The apparatus includes a mechanism for pulling or storing the magnetic tape out of or in the cassette which mechanism includes a pair of guide rollers for restricting the running path of the magnetic tape, the guide rollers being movable between an unloading position and a loading position. A magnetic head, which can be a multi-track magnetic head having a plurality of magnetic heads, the number of which is defined to be smaller than the number of tracks standardized as a track format on the magnetic tape, records or reproduces information-data when the guide rollers are in their loading position and the head is allowed to vertically move each time the running direction of the magnetic tape is changed.