Patent · US Expired

Tape cassette

US4844377A · kind A · utility

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4References
9Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateMar 7, 1988
Grant dateJul 4, 1989
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 7, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B23/08735
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to a tape cassette suitable for VTRs which allows mounting of two kinds of tape cassettes whose outer dimensions are different from each other. The tape cassette has a front cover for covering a magnetic tape stretched in the front of a cassette body and a rear cover for covering the rear side of the magnetic tape, and the front edge of the upper surface of the rear cover is arranged to be normal to the upper surface of the cassette body so as to prevent error-insertion and to allow simple and sure insertion into a VTR and provide an excellent air-tightness, resulting in the prevention of image deterioration due to increase of drop out caused by entering of dust and so on.

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