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5438471 Tape cassette having a pivotably movable main lid and a guidably movable top lid  
A tape cassette including a cassette case having a pair of tape reels having a recording tape wound therebetween and having an opening for providing access to the recording tape; a main lid...
5438472 Magnetic tape cassette with an improved reel spring  
A pressure spring for urging the reels toward the lower cassette casing of a magnetic tape cassette includes a central base portion secured to the upper casing, opposite end portions adapted for...
5438189 Recording-tape cassette w/ anti-jam perimeter-declivity  
A tape-cassette of the now popularly standardized dual transfer-spool type, having identical top and bottom mating halves, including a slightly raised mesial anterior portion, having a pair of...
5435498 Reel lock device for a video tape cartridge  
A reel lock device for use in a video tape cartridge having upper and lower shells and reels rotatably disposed between the shells, includes reel lock levers rotatable on the lower shell to be...
5436782 Magnetic-tape cassette and reel-locking device suitable for use in the magnetic-tape cassette  
A magnetic-tape cassette includes a reel locking device having tow levers each having one tooth. The levers further comprise actuating members which can be pushed away by a release pin provided on...
5433398 Tape cassette with reel lock mechanism  
A tape cassette having a cassette case; a pair of tape reels rotatably mounted in the cassette case, on which tape reels a magnetic tape is wound, each of the tape reels having a flange formed with...
5434727 Tape recorder having a cassette-shutter opening mechanism  
A tape recorder includes a cassette holder for holding therein a tape cassette which is inserted in a direction parallel to the direction of movement of a slide shutter of the tape cassette, an...
5434721 Recording/reproducing apparatus for recording/reproducing information to and/or from a plurality of types of recording medium cassettes  
A recording/reproducing apparatus for recording information on and reproducing recorded information from the recording medium of a recording medium cassette comprises a cassette identifying circuit...
5433395 Tape cartridge retention interlock  
A tape cartridge having a tape supply reel contained within the cartridge housing. A tape passes through a tape guideway in the cartridge housing and is attached to the tape supply reel on one end...
5434736 Tape cassette with reduced shrinkage mark  
Shrinkage mark due to difference in thickness between a thick bottom portion and a thin bottom wall portion of a cassette is reduced by forming a recess in the thick wall portion and life of...
5432668 Magnetic tape cassette with lid that cooperates with withdrawing member of cassette changer  
A magnetic tape cassette is arranged such that it is accommodated in a cassette magazine which can contain a plurality of cassettes and withdrawn from the cassette magazine by a cassette changer...
5432662 Data recording cartridge including a flexible magnetic recording medium  
A data recording cartridge provided with a cartridge case and a recording medium accommodated therein, wherein the cartridge case is molded from at least one of the following materials: (1)...
5432647 Copy protection disk format controller  
A disk format controller for a disk drive operating on a first disk containing an original version of a program and an application-specific decoding rule where signals are recorded according to an...
5421531 Slack limiter post  
A tape cassette includes a base and a cover. A supply reel and a take-up reel are rotatably mounted in the base, and tape is wound around the reels and extends around a guide pin and across a tape...
5422774 Magnetic tape cassette having improved slider lock  
A magnetic tape cassette includes a slider fitted slidably along a bottom of a cassette case, as well as resiliently locking pieces formed in the bottom of the cassette case along the bottom in a...
5422773 Lid assembly for a tape cassette which protects front and rear surfaces of a magnetic tape  
In order to prevent drop-out in recording and reproducing, a cassette back lid is constituted by a first swing plate having a first engagement member engageable with a first cam surface, and a...
5418671 Magnetic tape cassette with an improved support liner arrangement  
A tape cassette is provided with a housing bearing constriction for the hubs and the support liners are provided with curved or bent liner regions which serve both for guiding the empty hub and for...
5418672 Breakaway tab and plug for single reel cartridges  
An erasure preventing device is located in the front wall of a cartridge which has an opening which is interactable with a cartridge drive system. A tab is irreplaceably removable from the front...
5414581 Tape cassette with V-shaped tape build-up area for controlling misfeed tape  
A tape cassette for insertion into a tape deck to control misfeed tape includes a guide bracket mounted within a housing of the tape cassette to guide the tape along a tape feed direction between...
5414582 Composite tape cassette  
A composite tape cassette, for use in either video or audio format is disclosed. The tape cassette includes a lightweight rigid thermoplastic frame for carrying the reels and tape and providing...
5412525 Tape cassette having a rockable finger for latching a slidable shutter  
A tape cassette has a substantially rectangular, box-shaped casing with a recess in a front portion of the casing having openings facing forwardly and downwardly, respectively, and with a bottom...
RE34927 Magnetic tape cassette with tape protective closure and lock mechanism  
A magnetic tape cassette is provided with a pivotal closure lid pivotably secured to both sides of a casing for movement between a closed position, in which the front opening of the casing, through...
5409174 High speed transport cassette  
A high speed tape transport cassette comprises a pair of spaced apart flangeless hubs and an access space between the hubs. On each side of the access space, there is mounted a cylindrical guide...
5408378 Magnetic-tape cassette comprising a pressure-member support, and pressure-member support for such a cassette  
In a cassette (1) comprising a pressure-member support (58) arranged adjacent a side wail (8) to hold an elastic pressure member (56) by means of which a magnetic tape (2) can be pressed against a...
5404251 Auto reverse cassette deck capable of recording/reproducing with two different cassette types and formats  
A system is provided which records reproduces signals on/from a magnetic tape in a cassette in longitudinal tracks in two track patterns in two adjacent tape zones which are inscribed/read in...
5402955 Reel-locking mechanism for compact tape cassette  
A cassette has supply and take up reels with corresponding annular gears thereon. A pivotally mounted driving brake arm has an intermediately positioned pawl engaging the take up reel gear. An end...
5404261 Tape cassette having front and rear rids for the tape and a rotatable lever connecting the rids  
The present invention discloses a tape cassette having a front lid for protecting a magnetic surface of a magnetic tape accommodated in a casing against dust or the like and a rear lid for...
5402296 Tape cassette, in particular magnetic tape cassette, and support liners for this  
A tape cassette is provided with curved/bent support liners, the longitudinal bends having different cross-sectional shapes and lengths and hence different effective spring constants. The hubs or...
5397072 Drive belt textured with bubble burst discontinuities for use in belt-driven recording tape cartridge  
A drive belt for a belt-driven recording tape cartridge, wherein the drive belt has inside and outside major surfaces which comprise a plurality of bubble burst discontinuities. Processes for...
5398147 Cassette base with triangular strengthening braces  
A cassette base includes a lower wall, two side walls perpendicular to the lower wall, a front wall perpendicular to the lower and side walls, and a rear wall opposing the front wall and...
5396392 Tape casette with tape cleaners  
A tape cassette for accommodating a reeled length of magnetic recording tape comprises a generally rectangular flattened box-like configuration. The cassette has top and bottom panels, front and...
5395064 Tape cassette having front and inner pivotal lids  
A tape cassette comprises a pair of reels fixedly holding leading and trailing ends of a tape; and a cassette case containing the pair of reels with a forwardly exposed portion of the tape being...
5390871 Low cost video cassette with light screen  
A low cost video cassette has a base formed of a generally flat wall portion, with sloped converging front walls spaced inward from a front edge and with flat tape guiding walls extending upward...
5390056 Recording/reproducing apparatus capable of accepting tape cartridges of different sizes  
The present invention provides tape cartridges of different sizes, and a recording/reproducing apparatus provided with a compatible tape cartridge holding device capable of holding either of the...
5390063 Video cassette pressure flap  
A pressure flap for eliminating slack in a tape cassette. The pressure flap includes a body portion having a tape contact edge at a first end thereof, and a fold line at a second end thereof. The...
5386334 Tape cassette reel locking mechanism  
A tape cassette having a cassette casing having rotatably contained therein a pair of tape reels having fixed thereto respective ends of a tape and a front lid rotatably supported at the fore end...
5385782 Pre-coated data cartridge base plate  
A base plate for use in a data cartridge using pre-coated aluminum. The coating is applied before cutting the aluminum into a base plate shaped article.
5383077 Tape cassette having tape guides made of polyethylene  
Tape cassette tape guides are molded from a complex material of super macromolecular weight polyethylene-based resin having a molecular weight of from 500,000 to 1,000,000 mixed with polyphenyl...
5379167 Magnetic tape cartridge with second generation leader block and leader block pin  
A new generation magnetic tape cartridge of the type having a leader block is provided along with a new generation leader block pin so as to prevent interlocking with respect to prior art leader...
5377066 Magnetic tape cassette having friction sheet protruding portions with wavily curved side edges  
A magnetic tape cassette including a pair of hubs which are rotatably supported in an internal opening defined between upper and lower half portions of a body of the cassette and on which a...
5371644 Self identifying universal data storage element with human intelligible write protect mechanism  
A mechanism for defining a write protect state of a data storage media enclosed in a housing of a data storage element is disclosed. The mechanism includes an aperture formed in an exterior surface...
5367421 Cartridge for a recording/reproducing medium having a transparent or semi-transparent cover member  
A cartridge for receiving therein a recording/reproducing medium has a casing having a label area in which a label is disposed. A transparent cover covers the label and is attached to the casing...
5366788 Compact cassette having a liner made of high glass-transition-temperature polymer materials  
A compact cassette is provided with substantially rectangular plastic support liner(s) between tape roll(s) and cassette wall(s), having at least one longitudinal bend, and the deflections of the...
5365387 Automatic video tape converter  
An automatic video tape converter which is capable of converting a camera-used video tape into a general video tape suitable for a common video player to play, wherein a rotary shaft is disposed at...
5364040 Visual effects for recording tape cassettes  
A recording tape cassette which includes two sets of printed material disposed between an outer disk of each tape reel and a wall of the cassette case. The first set of printed material comprises a...
5365393 Magnetic tape cassette having a groove extending perpendicular to a front wall thereof for engagement by a loading mechanism of a tape cassette apparatus  
System consisting of a magnetic-tape-cassette apparatus, comprising a deck and a loading mechanism for magnetic-tape cassettes, and of a magnetic-tape cassette. A system consists of a...
5363268 Tape cassette  
A tape cassette which includes a housing having an opening at the front portion of the housing in which opening loading posts are maneuvered, a pair of tape reels rotatably disposed in the housing,...
5357391 Audio tape cassette, audio tape and production method of the same  
An audio tape cassette having a magnetic tape which is wound around a hub, a cassette shell and guiding parts which comprises a polypropylene resin including inorganic particles "A" dispersed in...
5357383 Multicompartment video tape and player therefor  
A VCR utilizes two rotary heads so as to allow a user to playback a portion of the endless loop magnetic tape while recording onto another portion of the tape. The cassette cartridge is...
5354013 Tape cassette fast forward clutch  
A tape cassette having a clutch mounted therein to permit rotation of the base reel and take-up reel in a first direction below a predetermined speed and prohibit rotation of the reels in the first...