A capstan motor connection structure of a tape recorder comprising a first connector disposed at a main printed circuit board (PCB) to be electrically connected to the main PCB, a second connector disposed at an end of the main base corresponding to the first connector to be electrically connected to the first connector, and a cable penetratingly supported in a supporting hole formed in the main base, for electrically connecting the sub PCB of the capstan motor to the second connector. The capst...

A tape transport system includes two hubs within an enclosure having smooth interior surfaces. A tape head is positioned between the tape hubs so that the magnetic tape travels between the tape hubs and over a tape head contact surface. The tape head moves laterally in a direction parallel to the direction of tape travel based on the amount of magnetic tape held on at least one of the hubs.

Miniature tape recorder having a recording and play back head and combined microphone-loud-speaker arranged with their axes substantially co-axial with the projected axis of the drive motor to afford size and noise level reduction.

A recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing a tape cassette having a magnetic tape wound about a pair of tape reels includes a supply side reel block, a takeup side reel block, a capstan arbor, a driving unit and a switching unit. The supply side reel block rotationally drives a supply side tape reel and includes a supply side reel block gear portion. The takeup side reel block rotationally drives a takeup side tape reel and includes a takeup side reel block gear portion. A capstan arbor ...

A tape recorder, particularly a cassette recorder, comprising two reels for rewinding and unwinding a tape, sound recording and reproducing means, a driving system for moving the reels in two tape run directions, a braking system for the reels, control buttons (such as forward transport, pause, start, stop, record, rewind buttons) designed to set an appropriate function sequence for the recorder, and an electric control system which controls the given function sequence as a function of the actua...

A tape player is provided to simplify a mechanical part, eliminate parts, and provide efficient assembly of the mechanical part and a more compact apparatus. The tape player includes pins respectively moving in four different grooves provided in one disk-like cam, and a lever in conjunction with the movement of the pins to use movement of the lever so as to perform a cassette tape carry in/out operation, a head base moving operation, a playback running direction switching operation, and a select...

A tape-like recording medium travelling and driving apparatus includes a pair of flywheels respectively rotated and driven, a first reel turntable, and a second reel turntable, a first reel gear unit provided on the first reel turntable and rotated together with the first reel turntable, a second reel gear unit provided on the second reel turntable and rotated together with the second reel turntable, and a transmission mechanism for, transmitting a rotational drive force from any one flywheel by...

A reel braking device comprises a brake member integrally provided with an abutting contact portion and an engaging portion, and an urging member. The abutting contact portion has an approximately circular arc form and is capable of coming into abutting contact with a sliding portion of an outer periphery of a reel mount, and the engaging portion is capable of engaging with an engaged portion of the outer periphery of the reel mount. The brake member is arranged to be rotatable around near the c...

To reduce the number of parts and simplify the structure by permitting the forward-rotation components and the reverse-rotation components to share a mechanism of transmitting the driving force to a pair of reel blocks 42F,42R. A pair of capstans 41F,41R respectively serving for forward rotation and reverse rotation and a pair of reel blocks 42F,42R respectively serving for forward rotation and reverse rotation are provided. One of the capstans, i. e. the capstan 41F, is provided with a low-spee...

The tape drive unit of the present invention is constructed such that the reverse rotation of a motor (16) causes a mode cam (32) to drive for setting any mode of normal play, reverse play, fast forward and rewinding. Thereafter the forward rotation of the motor (16) causes a reel shaft (3) or a real shaft (4) to rotationally drive according to the mode and a head base (51) is slid in normal play or reverse play modes, to set up a magnetic head and pinch rollers. With such construction, each ope...