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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 1995
Filed:
Apr. 09, 1992
Hiroshi Shiokawa, Toyonaka, JP;
Toshikazu Ura, Minoo, JP;
Akio Konishi, Hirakata, JP;
Hideaki Yoshio, Moriguchi, JP;
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A cassette loading device is compact, lightweight, thin and used in a video tape player or the like. An opening lever is pivotally mounted on a stand, and is engaged in a cam groove with a top plate. With this arrangement, the opening lever is accommodated within a longitudinal dimension of a cassette, and therefore the loading device in the direction of the longitudinal dimension of the cassette can be greatly reduced. The cassette is moved through the pivotal movement of the top plate and arms, and with this arrangement operating switches and so on can be easily mounted on a plane of projection of the top plate. Therefore, the positional stability of the cassette loading device can be achieved, and the number of component parts can be reduced, thereby achieving a compact, lightweight construction of the cassette loading device.