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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1992
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1990
KAO Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tape cassette of the present invention comprises an upper half and a lower half constituting a cassette body which rotatably contains a hub with a tape wound thereon, a slider disposed in such a manner as to cover the lower half for movement forward and backward, and a spring disposed to a front end portion of the lower half in order to urge the slider forward, a pair of retaining elements each having a projection formed on an outer side thereof being integrally connected to the lower half, the projections being engaged in a pair of first holes or a pair of second holes formed in front and rear portions of the slider to retain the slider urged by the spring, so that a pair of opening portions formed in the lower half can be opened and closed by a pair of opening portions formed in the slider, the height l.sub.1 of a perpendicular surface of each of the projections on the connecting side of the retaining elements being higher than the height l.sub.2 of a perpendicular surface of each of the projections on the tip side of the retaining elements.
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