US 5,206,781 AGranted

Magnetic tape cassette having a protective plug to avoid erroneous erasure

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorKiyotaka Yanaka

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Abstract

A magnetic tape cassette includes a sliding member, a stopper for preventing the sliding member from being disengaged and a positioning click stopper for engaging the sliding member at a switching position at which an erase possible condition and an erasure preventing condition are chosen, the prevention stopper and the click stopper being independently provided between the sliding member inserted into an aperture in the thickness direction of the cassette casing and the insertion aperture bored through the cassette casing. The click stopper is formed of a stop portion and a guide portion continuous to the stop portion so that the switching operation of the sliding member can be performed smoothly. Thus, the magnetic tape cassette can be placed in the erase possible condition and the erasure preventing condition easily and positively. Further, when the sliding member is pushed too strongly in the switching operation or when the sliding member is worn, this sliding member can be prevented from being disengaged and the erasure can be positively avoided.

Claims5

Dependent claims

A magnetic tape cassette in which a signal recorded on a tape-shaped record medium accommodated therein can be prevented from being erased inadvertently by a sliding member movable by a user of said cassette and being slidably inserted within an insertion aperture formed through a cassette casing in a thickness direction of the cassette casing, said cassette comprising:

disengagement preventing stopper means including convex portions formed on said sliding member and concave portions formed in said insertion aperture for preventing said sliding member from being disengaged from the cassette casing;
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positioning click stopper means including protrusions formed on said sliding member separate and apart from said convex portions and click stopper concave portions formed in said insertion aperture separate and apart from said concave portions of said disengagement preventing stopper means for selectively stopping movement of said sliding member at predetermined switching positions so that a recorded signal can be erased or that the recorded signal can be prevented from being inadvertently erased, wherein said positioning click stopper means further includes guide groove portions respectively contiguous to said click stopper concave portions in said insertion aperture.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.