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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2000
Takashi Ota, Miyagi, JP;
Shuichi Ota, Saitama, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
In a tape cassette in which a mouth portion opened in forward and up-and-down directions is provided at the front portion of a cassette shell accommodating therein tape reels and having a magnetic tape wound therearound, a part of the magnetic tape is located so as to traverse the front end of the mouth portion, and a front lid for covering the front side of the magnetic tape is provided, a slider is provided so as to be freely movable forwardly and downwardly, each side surface portion of the slider along the side surface of the front lid has a lid-support portion at the front-end portion thereof and a main-surface portion located so as to be farther outward than the lid-support portion, the front lid has a front-surface portion covering the front surface of the tape-shaped recording medium, and side-surface portions projecting backwardly from both the ends of said front surface portion, the side surface portions being freely-rotatably supported to the lid-support portion of the slider, and the front-end portions of the slider and the side-surface portions of the front lid have overlap portions and which are overlapped with each other in the right-and-left direction.