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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2001
Funai Electric Co., Ltd., Daito, JP;
Abstract
A magnetic tape apparatus has an intermediate gear ( ) meshed with an idler gear ( ) which is releasably meshed with both a pay-off reel table ( ) and a roll-up reel table ( ), a drive gear ( ) rotatably driven by a capstan motor ( ), a driven gear ( ) releasably meshed with the drive gear ( ) by way of a friction plate, a clutch mechanism ( ), and a speed increasing mechanism ( ). The speed increasing mechanism ( ) has a movable rotary body ( ) rotatably mounted around a support shaft ( ) and adapted to reciprocate along an axis of the support shaft ( ) by means of the clutch mechanism ( ). The movable rotary body ( ) is provided with a small diametered gear ( ) and a large diametered gear ( ). In a fast feed mode and a rewind mode, the small diametered gear ( ) is meshed with the drive gear ( ) while the large diametered gear ( ) is meshed with the intermediate gear ( ).