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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2000
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A cassette deck that can use either a large cassette or a small cassette and can move the small cassette with certainty to a position at which the small cassette can be taken out manually. The cassette deck includes a housing, and a mounting and discharging mechanism capable of mounting and discharging any of a small cassette and a large cassette. The mounting and discharging mechanism includes a moving mechanism for pushing at a rear face of the small cassette to move the small cassette to a position at which the small cassette can be manually taken out. The moving mechanism provided on a lid member includes a pivotal arm mounted for pivotal back and forth movement over approximately 180 degrees on the inner side of the housing.