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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 25, 1996
Jae-soo Lee, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Kyungki-do, KR;
Abstract
A magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, including a pair of side chassis having predetermined guide slots, and a cassette holder assembly, which includes a cassette holder having guide pins movably inserted into the guide slots, arm members respectively installed on inner sides of the side chassis and having slots into which the guide pins of the cassette holder are inserted, with at least one of the arm members having a guide protrusion. A cam gear is installed between the at least one arm member and a corresponding one of the side chassis and has a cam groove into which the guide protrusion of the at least one arm member is inserted and which has a pressing portion which rotates the at least one arm member according to a position of rotation. An elastic member is extended across the cam groove formed in the cam gear and has one end portion which elastically controls movement of the guide protrusion according to the rotation of the at least one arm member when the cam gear stops and another end portion which elastically presses the guide protrusion of the at least one arm member when the cam gear rotates. The apparatus further includes a portion for rotatively driving the cam gear.