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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2003
Yasuhiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tape guide mechanism in a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus is provided; the magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus includes a movable chassishaving a tape guide arm memberon which a tape guideis erected and a pair of reels stands thereon and a fixed chassishaving a magnetic rotary head thereon, in which the movable chassismoves to one position of said fixed chassisto perform loading and unloading of a cassette and when moves to the other position, tape loading of taking out a magnetic tape from the reel of the loaded cassette to be wound around the magnetic rotary head is performed, wherein after completing the tape loading, the tape guideis fixed to a predetermined position by a guide receiving memberthat is provided on the fixed chassisto receive the tape guide, and in the middle of the tape guidetraveling to said predetermined position, the tape guide arm memberis made to move along a grooveprovided in the fixed chassisto determine the position in the chassis plane direction and is guided and moved by the projectionsprovided on the lower surface of the tape guide arm memberto determine the position in the height direction.