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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1991
Mitsuo Utsumi, Yawata, JP;
Osamu Zaitsu, Neyagawa, JP;
Makoto Okuda, Hirakata, JP;
Jiro Kajino, Neyagawa, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A tape cassette which includes a housing having an opening at the front portion of the housing in which opening loading posts are maneuvered, a pair of tape reels rotatably disposed in the housing, a slider slidably mounted by the housing and having a front portion located in the opening, and a front cover supported by both the slider and housing for covering the magnetic tape exposed to the outside, and shifting means for rotating the front cover in the direction in which the loading posts are entered into the opening, end sliding the front cover in such a direction that the front cover moves away from the magnetic tape so that in accordance with the movement of the slider in a direction that the front portion moves away from the magnetic tape, the magnetic tape is exposed to the outside.