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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1998
Kazumoto Yatabe, Miyagi, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cassette accommodating case formed integrally of a lower half,and an upper half,has a cassette insertion opening,at is one side surface. A finger-insertion opening portion,used for drawing a cassette is formed through an upper surface of the upper half,A reel stopper member,in which a pair of reel stopper pieces,capable of rising and being pressed down and engaged with reel hub apertures,of a compact cassette,is fixed on a bottom surface of the lower half,A traverse U-letter shaped slit groove,is formed through a portion of the base late where the reel stopper pieces,are planted, thereby the reel stopper member being formed as a reel stopper member having a flexible base plate,which is flexibly deformed. A cantilever-shaped cassette-release preventing member,having an elastic function and engaged with a concave portion,of the erroneous-erasure preventing click,on a rear surface of the cassette in its accommodated state is provided on an inner wall surface of a cassette housing in the vicinity of the opposite side of the cassette insertion opening