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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1994
Filed:
Jun. 23, 1992
Tomoyuki Suzuki, Saitama, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An intermittently operating driving mechanism for a record medium selecting apparatus of a player wherein two principal components thereof do not operate at a time but operate independently of each other to assure a high space factor and the interval of time over which each of them do not operate can be set freely. A tray base plate selectively receives, at an outwardly projected position, tape cassettes on cassette receiving members thereon and moves to a home position, at which one of the cassettes is selected. The selected cassette is transported by a tray driving plate to a playing position at which the cassette is played. Each of the tray base plate and the tray driving plate has a toothed portion, with which a gear of a cam plate is selectively engaged to move the tray base plate or the tray driving plate between the respective end positions of movement. Cam levers cooperate with the cam plate to positively hold the tray base plate and the tray driving plate from moving from the respective home positions.