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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 1996
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1994
Norio Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
TEAC Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A holder unit receives a cassette therein, the cassette containing a recording tape and having a lid unit thereon. A lid pressing member comprises a pair of sliding portions which come into contact with two opposite end portions of the lid unit of the cassette while the cassette is being withdrawn from the holder unit if the lid unit is in an opened state. The cassette is withdrawn from the holder unit in a certain direction. Each of the pair of sliding portions has a slope which comes into contact with the lid unit, an angle formed between the slope and the certain direction being equal to or less than 15.degree.. The lid pressing member has a cut out portion between the pair of sliding members so that the pressing member comes into contact only with the two end portions of the lid unit and, at least at first, does not come into contact with a middle portion of the lid unit.