Abstract: In a recording apparatus having a digital signal input which can record such digital signal on a recording medium, when a condition of the input signal changes during the recording operation the recording apparatus is automatically set into a recording pause mode and such operating mode is indicated to the operator. When the condition of the input signal is stabilized within a predetermined period of time during such recording pause mode, the recording medium is automatically rewound and the recording apparatus is then released from the recording pause mode and recording commences at a location on the record medium so as to record over any previously recorded unstable signal.

Abstract: A tape guide arrangement for a tape recording and reproducing apparatus comprises a cylinder device provided with a rotary head, a first slant guide member for feeding a tape to the cylinder device, a second slant guide member for guiding the tape from the cylinder device into a predetermined direction, a first rotary guide member for guiding the tape to the first slant guide member, and a second rotary guide member for causing the tape from the second slant guide member to pass through a predetermined position. Each of the first and second rotary guide members is provided with an axis of rotation substantially perpendicular to an imaginary plane defined in relation to positions which are set on the first and second slant guide members and the cylinder device, respectively, and through which an elongated edge of the tape passes.

Abstract: A tape cassette for holding a magnetic tape which is constituted by an upper half and a lower half which define a cassette case and a tape guide located therein, wherein at least one of the upper half, the lower half and the tape guide is made of material containing ceramics.

Abstract: A small or mini-cassette having a body containing rotatable laterally spaced reel hubs with a magnetic tape wound thereon, and guide elements permanently in the cassette body and leading the tape between the hubs in a run extending along the inside of a peripheral wall at the front of the body, is provided with a plurality of windows spaced apart along the peripheral wall for exposing the tape run therebehind, laterally spaced apart pairs of aligned openings extending through the upper and lower body walls in back of the tape run at locations registering with respective ones of the window, and a pair of aligned apertures extending through the upper and lower walls between the pairs of openings; and a tape recorder for such cassette includes at least one capstan projecting into a selected one of the pairs of aligned openings, a pinch roller associated with each capstan and insertable rearwardly through the window registered with the selected pair of openings for engaging the tape therebehind with the capstan,

Abstract: An improved tape cassette which can be automatically loaded into a tape recording and playback machine by moving it in a horizontal plane and in which the cassette includes pinch rollers and a pair of face gears with radially extending teeth for engagement with movable mating face gears with radially extending teeth to drive the take-up reels and wherein capstan engaging concave portions are formed in alignment with the pinch rollers in the surface of the cassette and with a plurality of head inserting openings formed in a front face of the cassette. Capstans are receivable in the capstan engaging openings so that the pinch rollers will press the tape against the capstan for driving it and the various heads are engageable with the tape through the openings formed in the front surface of the cassette.