Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric substrate having a piezoelectric driving unit and provided with outer coating substrates laminated on major surfaces thereof via adhesive layers, and external electrodes provided on the outer surfaces of a layered body included in the piezoelectric device. In the piezoelectric device, each of the adhesive layers includes a first layer of an adhesive having a Shore D hardness after curing of not more than approximately 60, and disposed so as not to be exposed in a region of lateral side surfaces of the layered body provided with the external electrodes, a second layer of an adhesive having a Shore D hardness of at least approximately 60, and a third layer of an adhesive having a Shore D hardness of at least approximately 60 and having a viscosity before curing of at least approximately 3.0×105 mPas at a temperature of 25° C.

Abstract: A cable holder for holding a flexible flat cable having a film portion, flat wires running in the film portion, a reinforcement portion where a reinforcement sheet is attached and notches formed respectively in opposite side edges of the reinforcement portion, to electrically connecting the flexible flat cable to a connector, the cable holder comprises: a holder body; a holder guide portion provided with the holder body, wherein an inner shape of the holder guide corresponds to an outer shape of the connector; and a cable holding portion having protuberances formed on the cable holding portion, for engaging respectively in the notches for holding the reinforcement portion of the flexible flat cable such that a distal end of the flexible flat cable projects into the holder guide portion.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus has an intermediate gear 19 meshed with an idler gear 22 which is releasably meshed with both a pay-off reel table 2 and a roll-up reel table 3, a drive gear 31 rotatably driven by a capstan motor 10, a driven gear 32 releasably meshed with the drive gear 31 by way of a friction plate, a clutch mechanism 20, and a speed increasing mechanism 27. The speed increasing mechanism 27 has a movable rotary body 37 rotatably mounted around a support shaft 36 and adapted to reciprocate along an axis of the support shaft 36 by means of the clutch mechanism 20. The movable rotary body 37 is provided with a small diametered gear 38 and a large diametered gear 39. In a fast feed mode and a rewind mode, the small diametered gear 38 is meshed with the drive gear 31 while the large diametered gear 39 is meshed with the intermediate gear 19.

Abstract: A system for, and a method of, playing a variable content video contained in a memory device, such as an optical disk, the memory device further providing user interface routines and control codes; the video having a non-sequential logical arrangement of parallel, transitional, and overlapping segments, and content information defining and linking segments of the video responsive to at least one content category, such as a rating; the segments including (1) at least one segment unique to one of at least two versions of the same variable content video, (2) at least one segment unique to the other of said at least two versions of the same variable content video, and (3) at least one segment common to said at least two versions of the same variable content video; the segment definitions each having a descriptor responsive to the at least one content category; and the content information providing, responsive to a viewer's preference with respect to the at least one content category, and by means of random access

Abstract: A piezoelectric device includes a piezoelectric substrate having a piezoelectric driving unit and provided with outer coating substrates laminated on major surfaces thereof via adhesive layers, and external electrodes provided on the outer surfaces of a layered body included in the piezoelectric device. In the piezoelectric device, each of the adhesive layers includes a first layer of an adhesive having a Shore D hardness after curing of not more than approximately 60, and disposed so as not to be exposed in a region of lateral side surfaces of the layered body provided with the external electrodes, a second layer of an adhesive having a Shore D hardness of at least approximately 60, and a third layer of an adhesive having a Shore D hardness of at least approximately 60 and having a viscosity before curing of at least approximately 3.0×105 mPas at a temperature of 25° C.

Abstract: A recording-medium mis-recording preventing mechanism for preventing recording from being made by mistake on a recording medium loaded in a recording unit, comprises: a push switch for detecting whether the recording medium is recordable or not; and an arm portion. The arm portion includes: a first arm member pivoted on the recording unit and having a detection portion for abutting against a judgement claw provided on the recording medium so as to be removable by bending; a second arm member for pushing the push switch; a thin plate portion for connecting the first arm member and the second arm member; a spring provided between the first arm member and the second arm member for urging the second arm member in the direction to push the push switch; and a plate spring portion provided on the first arm member for making the arm portion return to a position in which the arm portion is to be positioned when no recording medium is loaded.

Abstract: In a reel sensor for a start/finish and detecting device in which a light from a light-emitting element is radiated into an incident light window formed in a video cassette and a start/finish end of a video tape is detected based on an intensity of a light radiated from an emergent light window formed in the video cassette, the reel sensor comprises: a light-distributing section for distributing the light radiated from the light-emitting element to a rotation indicator so as to correspond to the rotation of a reel stand, the rotation indicator serving to change an intensity of the light either transmitting therethrough or being reflected thereby; and a light-receiving section for receiving the ray of light having been distributed by the light-distributing section and either having transmitted through the rotation indicator or having been reflected by the rotation indicator.

Abstract: A piezoelectric filter has a significantly reduced size and a sufficient coupling capacitance while avoiding an uneven outer configuration of an overall shape of the filter. The piezoelectric filter includes a first resonating unit and a second resonating unit and a coupling capacitance unit disposed in a piezoelectric substrate. The coupling capacitance unit is provided with a first coupling capacitance electrode located on an upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate and a second coupling capacitance electrode located on a lower surface thereof and the first and second coupling capacitance electrodes are arranged to extend to side edge surfaces of the piezoelectric substrate.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus having a bearer formed so as to be reciprocatable in the front-rear direction between a cassette insertion position and a cassette mount position on a chassis for inserting a tape cassette, and a rotating cam provided on the chassis for driving the bearer through an interlocking mechanism with a clutch. In the magnetic tape apparatus, the clutch is turned off to release the interlocking mechanism between the bearer and the rotating cam when the bearer is advanced from the cassette mount position to the cassette insertion position, while the clutch is turned on to establish the interlock between the bearer and the rotating cam when the bearer is retreated from the cassette insertion position to the cassette mount position.

Abstract: A loading mechanism in a video cassette deck comprising a cassette moving mechanism 100 for moving a cassette receiving portion 200 between an initial location and a running location. The cassette moving mechanism 100 has a slide arm 120 horizontally slidably attached on one of a pair of wall portions 110 provided on both left and right sides of the cassette receiving portion 200, a driving portion for sliding the slide arm 120, a cassette driving gear 130 which is rotatably supported on the wall portion 110 to which the slide arm 120 is attached and which is connected to the cassette receiving portion 200 through a groove portion 112 formed in the wall portion 110, and a door arm 140 for transmitting the motion of the slide arm 120 to a door. The cassette loading mechanism is designed so that the door is opened before the cassette receiving portion 200 is moved when the cassette receiving portion 200 in the running location is moved into the initial location.

Abstract: The video camera recording and/or play-back device according to this invention is constructed with plastic chassis and further provided with many mechanisms for assembling with case. This device is provided with two ring gears for guiding the tape to the revolving head cylinder, and a spaced portion penetrating the chassis in the vicinity of the location that the head cylinder is installed, the two ring gears are easily assembled by inserting the lower ring gear through the spaced portion and then placing the upper ring gear on the lower ring gear. In this device, at least one ring gear is made of plastic and provided with a mechanism preventing excess load to the ring gears.

Abstract: A device for securing a pinch roller support arm to a chassis of a magnetic tape apparatus. In the device, the chassis includes a round hole which is formed such that it extends through the chassis, and a securing part is outsert molded in the chassis in such a manner that the securing part extends through the round hole. After the pinch roller support arm is fitted with a support shaft provided on and projected from the chassis and a projection provided on the pinch roller support arm is fitted into a fitting hole formed in the chassis, by rotating the securing part around the round hole, the securing part is engaged with the projection.

Abstract: A cable holder for holding a flexible flat cable having a film portion, flat wires running in the film portion, a reinforcement portion where a reinforcement sheet is attached and notches formed respectively in opposite side edges of the reinforcement portion, to electrically connect the flexible flat cable to a connector. The cable holder comprises a holder body, a holder guide portion provided with the holder body, wherein an inner shape of the holder guide portion corresponds to an outer shape of the connector; and a cable holding portion having protuberances formed on the cable holding portion, for engaging respectively in the notches for holding the reinforcement portion of the flexible flat cable such that a distal end of the flexible flat cable projects into the holder guide portion.

Abstract: To provide a disc clamp mechanism of a disc generative device which enables a space-saving design to decrease the height of the disc regenerative device and decrease the number of parts, also being easily assembled, by setting a turntable having a plurality of penetrated guide holes at insertion portion of the disc hole protruded at the center of a table body, a press-maintenance plate inserted into an axial portion of the turntable slidably by installing a spring between the turntable and a plurality of disc-pressing pieces which fixedly urge the disc on the table body wherein said disc-pressing piece is installed on the press-maintenance plate so as to be swingable by latching with a guide hole and being swung so that the disc-pressing portion may become smaller or larger than the diameter of the disc hole according to the access or separation to or from the table body.

Abstract: A magnetic tape apparatus including, on a chassis, a pair of feed and take-up reel pads for engagement with a tape cassette, a tension lever adapted to be raised at the time of loading of the tape cassette to apply tension to a magnetic tape drawn out of the tape cassette, a brake lever for suddenly braking the feed reel pad at the time of stopping of the magnetic tape in a fast-feed state, a rewinding state, or the like, to prevent the magnetic tape from becoming loose, and a mode switching lever for operating the tension lever and the brake lever. The mode switching lever is operated at the time of unloading of the tape cassette to turn the brake lever to thereby make the brake lever engage with the tension lever so as to forcedly turn the tension lever.

Abstract: A disc device which performs to ascend and descend an ascending and descending chassis mechanically by a slide plate provided at a tray at the time of insertion or discharge of the tray, and maintains the ascending and descending chassis at the ascending position or lowers it by latching or separating the above slide plate with a lock member. In order to attain the above object, a guided portion 9 is provided to the ascent and descent chassis and a guide member 82 which ascends and descends the above guided portion 9 by front and rear moving operation is positioned at both sides of the above ascending and descending chassis 2 so as to be able to move in front and rear direction. In addition, a slide plate 102 which urges the guide member 82 to a tray 100, and a lock means which latches the above slide plate 102 so as to be able to latch or separate, are provided.

Abstract: A storage box or device for a large number of disks such as optical disks to be stored therein, and also for enabling a disk player having an automatic disk exchanger to be played while being stored in said storage box. The device comprises a plurality of disk storage boxes and a base box with disk storage boxes stacked in series thereon. The disk storage box has a stocker portion enabling multiple disk trays to be stored retractively therein, and tray-retracting devices installed in each storage portion of said stocker portion and a spaced portion placed behind said stocker portion, enabling a disk regenerating device carrier to move vertically therein. The base boxes are provided with an ampliting portion having an electrical system including a controller for the automatic exchanger; and the regenerating device is mounted on the carrier so as to be horizontally movable in the spaced portion and the carrier is activated to move vertically in the spaced portion.

Abstract: A device for selecting a tape-reel control mode adapted for use in a video tape recorder and/or player is provided with a devise for locking the shift member in a fast-running mode position, and a device for relieving the shift member from the locking condition in such a manner that a mode selecting cam is regulated by a cam drive motor in the same direction as that in the previous mode, just after the control mode is changed from the previous mode to the next mode.

Abstract: A device for exchanging a tape drive mode so to maintain a satisfied timing by which a tension mechanism for applying a tension to a tape between tape reels is kept to its tension place until the tape transport by a capstan roller together with a pinch roller is exerted after the power transmission is exchanged to either one of the tape reels for shifting the device from the playing/recording mode to the rewinding mode.