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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
May. 27, 1999
Masayuki Shimada, Tokyo, JP;
Kiyoyuki Chiba, Chiba, JP;
Kazutaka Nakashima, Chiba, JP;
Yasuhiro Yamaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuyasu Tsunezumi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electronic equipment, such as a tape recorder, having a loading section on one surface for loading a recording medium and a lid for opening/closing the loading section. This electronic equipment includes a lock mechanism for locking the lid in the closed position and an unlock mechanism for unlocking the lid. The unlock mechanism has an operating member extended along one lateral surface of the main body portion of the equipment and other lateral surfaces intersecting this one surface for covering the opening side of a recess formed at a corner of the main body portion. The unlock mechanism unlocks the lid by the operating member of the unlock mechanism being moved along the one lateral surface of the main body portion so that the operating member is partially immersed in the recess.