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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Katsuyuki Yokota, Anan, JP;
Hiroshi Hamahata, Yamatokoriyama, JP;
Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Daito, JP;
Abstract
A cassette plate is provided with a bendable bottom plate, right and left side walls, and upper plates extending toward an inward direction from said side walls. The bottom plate includes a platform having a function for pushing up a backside of a tape cassette when the tape cassette is inserted into the cassette plate through a front mouth. Owing to this construction, the bottom plate convexly bends downward, and the tape cassette is kept at a distance from the bottom plate of the cassette plate. In this state, the tape cassette is supported by the platform and upper plates of the cassette plate. Therefore, this assimilates variations of the components in size, and eliminates a need of a conventional pushing spring. The constitution can decrease the number of the component in a simple construction, thereby reducing the cost in a tape cassette loading device, and a tape deck having the same.