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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1999
Filed:
Jun. 13, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
242336 ; 360 94 ;
Abstract
A reel mount moving device for moving a reel mount to the position of each reel contained in each of a plurality of cassettes of different sizes, with any of the cassettes mounted, includes the reel mount which is arranged to be rotated by a power of a drive source for moving a recording medium, a converting member for converting the power of the drive source into a force of moving the reel mount, and a switching member arranged to cause the converting action of the converting member to be selectively turned on or off.