Abstract: A telephone answering apparatus responds to an incoming call by reproducing a message greeting the caller and requesting the caller's name. The response by the caller is amplified in the region of a called parties telephone set to be heard by the called party. If the called party is able to receive the call immediately, an acknowledgment signal is transmitted via a wireless transceiver carried by him back to the answering machine so that a message such as "Please wait a moment." is reproduced. A third message advising the called party is not available but will return the call is generated automatically after a predetermined time duration if the acknowledgment signal is not transmitted by the called party via the transceiver or the called party has not answered the telephone.

Abstract: An automatic telephone answering apparatus has an outgoing message tape on which a first message as an instruction message for causing a caller to record his voice, a mark and a second message as a response-only message are recorded in the order named. In normal operation, the first message is reproduced and a tape portion corresponding to the second message is fast forwarded so as to search the beginning of the first message. However, when an incoming message tape has reached its end or is damaged, a tape portion corresponding to the first message is fast forwarded and only the second message is reproduced.

Abstract: A system is added to a terminal device for automatically responding to a ringing signal of a telephone set and receiving information. Upon reception of an incoming call, an automatic telephone answering apparatus is started to send an outgoing message to a calling party. Thereafter, in response to a remote control signal supplied from the calling party, a ringing signal generating circuit is operated to generate the same signal as the ringing signal of the telephone set. The system to be connected to the telephone circuit independently can be operated without being modified, and the terminal device is started in response to the ringing signal generating circuit, so that the terminal device is connected to the telephone circuit to receive information.

Abstract: In a secretary telephone system for calling a transfer destination telephone set through given local lines of a telephone set different from a called party telephone set upon reception of a call from a calling party telephone set to the called party telephone set, the calling party telephone set can receive a busy signal in response to an output generated from a busy tone detector for detecting the busy tone when the transfer destination telephone set is set in an off-hook state. In addition, when a person at the transfer destination telephone set does not answer the phone within a predetermined period of time, the busy tone can be sent to the calling party telephone set in response to an output generated from a timer arranged therewith.

Abstract: The invention provides an automatic telephone answering apparatus wherein a relay means is operated upon reception of an incoming call so as to form a loop circuit, and a message from among a plurality of types of messages stored in a speech synthesizer is produced and delivered to a caller in accordance with the conditions whether or not a predetermined time interval has elapsed since the incoming call was received, whether or not an external tape recorder is connected, and whether or not an incoming message recording tape has reached its end.

Abstract: A remote control device using a telephone circuit of an electric apparatus to remote-control the electric apparatus from a remote location. The electric apparatus is held operative by a loop means for automatically engaging a telephone set with the telephone circuit and a means for enabling the electric apparatus (VTR) when a specific signal or a password is supplied thereto. A remote control signal is supplied to operate means (IC-2) for selecting a desired channel of channels (1CH-12CH) and means (IC-3, 8) for presetting an operation time interval of the electric apparatus, so that the desired channel of the electric apparatus can be selected and the operation time interval can be preset from the remote location. Furthermore, the start time of the electric apparatus can be preset by the remote control signal from the remote location.

Abstract: A magnetic endless tape is made with a half of a normal tape width to avoid the tape housed in the housing from being pressed with unreasonable force; and a reel is provided with flanges as its upper and lower sides and a tape rolling-up wall of the reel is inclined to a V shape with respect to the upper-side flange, thereby making the reverse of the tape possible so that a portion of the tape may be rewound when the cassette is inverted without trapping the rewound portion between the normally upper flange and the layers of tape wound on the reel.

Abstract: An endless cassette tape for a video tape recorder has a length which is the sum of the length of the outer rim of a section including a supply reel and a take-up reel and at least the length of the slack part for a tape loading to an outer component in a tape loading mode. The endless tape is wrapped on a reel hub on one of which a special tape hook pin is mounted. The tape hook pin hooks the slack part of the endless tape and absorbs it completely in cooperation with a reel mechanism in the tape unloading mode and release the slack part of the tape in the tape loading mode.

Abstract: A telephone charge displaying system has counters and first and second oscillation circuits which oscillate in response to an originating or terminating call. The first and second oscillation circuits are selectively operated in accordance with the originating or terminating call. The outputs from the counters are visually displayed as an integrated value of the telephone charge and as a telephone charge of each call.

Abstract: A telephone charge integrating and displaying device adapted for carrying out a new simplified charge system for telephone calls wherein all telephone charges are classified into, for example, only four block areas, (1) a local telephone call area, (2) a long distace telephone call area, (3) an international telephone call area reached by ordinary means, and (4) a telephone call area reached by space satellite or the like. The device is installed at each subscriber's telephone and the integrating operation, which is started when the handset is hooked off and is stopped when it is hooked on, is switched to a predetermined integration rate simply by dialing predetermined codes specified in accordance with each bloc area mentioned above.

Abstract: An automatic telephone answering apparatus includes an outgoing message tape drive mechanism; an outgoing message tape switching mechanism; an incoming message tape drive mechanism; an incoming message tape switching mechanism; and an escape mechanism. The escape mechanism includes a pivotal plate coupled to an outgoing message tape slide plate. A cam is formed at a front end of the pivoted plate. A pivotal support plate engages with the cam and supports an idler interposed between a driving roller and a rewinding roller. The escape mechanism operates mechanically in cooperation with operation of the outgoing message tape switching mechanism to prevent transmission of rotational force from a motor to the rewinding roller so the incoming message tape may not be rewound during operation of the outgoing message tape switching mechanism.

Abstract: A calling party's telephone number displaying device in which, while the telephone set of a subscriber is ringing in response to calling signals from a telephone exchange office, the telephone number of a calling party and information are displayed on digital display units at high speed before lifting the handset. Accordingly, the subscriber can determine whether or not he should answer the call before picking up the handset. Thus, his privacy can be protected from a variety of telephone troubles such as wrong number and nuisance calls. The display is maintained as it is even if the handset is put back after the talk but it will be cleared automatically upon reception of the next call to display the telephone number of the next calling party. When the subscriber picks up the handset to make a call, the internal circuit is automatically changed to display a telephone number dialed by him.

Abstract: An automatic answering telephone set has a pre-recorded message for a general calling party a pre-recorded message only for a specified calling party, means for changing the content of the pre-recorded message for the specified calling party by a person in a position to give the message, and means for indicating whether or not the messages for the general calling party and the specified calling party have been reproduced and sent to them. The message for the general calling party is recorded in the first half area of one track of an endless magnetic tape and the message for the specified calling party is recorded in the latter half area of another track of the magnetic tape. The messages are reproduced by a magnetic head selecting the tracks. The magnetic head normally lies at the track having the message for the general calling party.

Abstract: A sequential control signal generator which has at least first and second key switches and is adapted to provide a sequential control signal composed of control signals based on the actuation of the first and second key switches only when the second key switch is actuated after actuation of the first key switch. A further sequential control signal is provided only when the first key switch is actuated and then the second key switch is actuated within a predetermined time after completion of the first key switch actuation.

Abstract: A tape cassette comprising a cassette composed of an upper and a lower cassette half, and a partition plate disposed in the cassette to extend therein in a transverse direction to define an upper and a lower compartment. The partition plate has first and second reel insertion holes. The cassette has disposed therein first and second reels extending into the upper and lower compartments through the first and second reel insertion holes of the partition plates, respectively. The lower compartment has housed therein a first magnetic tape retained at one end to the lower half part of the first reel and at the other end to the lower half part of the second reel and guided to travel between the first and second reels. The upper compartment has disposed therein a third reel loosely engaged with the upper half part of the first reel and has housed therein a second magnetic tape endlessly wound on the third reel.

Abstract: In an automatic telephone answering device, answering messages or signals recorded on a memorizing element are transmitted with a pause interval therebetween so as to allow a calling party to talk. An actuator is provided in a blank portion of the tape to energize a timer circuit for operating a loudspeaker for only 3 to 4 seconds to reproduce the voice of the calling party, so that a called party hearing the voice can recognize who the calling party is without picking up the hand-set of the telephone set.