Tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus and tape ejecting method
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorYoshihisa Takayama
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Abstract
A tape streaming drive capable of unloading and loading a tape in a shorter time. The tape streaming drive includes a motor driving and servo circuit 150 having the function of controlling the running of a magnetic tape, and a system controller 161 having the controlling function of the motor driving and servo circuit 150 for moving the magnetic tape to an ejection area provided in the last position of the partition directly previous to the current partition.
Claims7
An apparatus for recording data on a tape cassette and/or reproducing said data from said tape cassette holding therein a tape-shaped recording medium having a plurality of partitions in each of which is recorded data, the apparatus comprising:
- running control means for controlling running of said tape-shaped recording medium;
- and
- system contro lling means for controlling said running control means so that said tape cassette is ejected from said apparatus after moving said tape-shaped recording medium to an ejection area provided at a last position of a partition of said plurality of partitions directly preceding a currently prevailing partition, wherein
- said partition directly preceding said currently prevailing partition is ahead of a leading end of data within said currently prevailing partition,
- said taoe cassette includes a storage portion for storing information data relating to said tape-shaped recording medium independently of said tape-shaped recording medium and information data writing means for storing said information data in said storage portion,
- said system controlling means moves said tape-shaped recording medium by controlling said running control means to said ejection area, and
- said information data writing means writes partition position information in said storage portion prior to a movement to said ejection area of said tape-shaped recording medium.
A method for ejecting a tape cassette holding therein a tape-shaped recording medium having a plurality of partitions in each of which is recorded data, comprising the steps of:
- moving said tape-shaped recording medium to an ejection area provided in a last position of a partition of said plurality of partitions directly previous to a current partition, wherein
- said partition directly previous to said current partition is ahead of a leading end of data within said current partition, and
- said tape cassette includes a storage portion for storing information data concerning said tape-shaped recording medium;
- writing in said storage portion position information of a partition prior to a movement to said ejection area of said tape-shaped recording medium;
- and
- ejecting said tape cassette after said tape-shaped recording medium is moved to said ejection area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.