JPH05210960A - Automatic opening and closing device for operating part of recording and reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide the recording and reproducing device featuring the good hand of use by opening a door and automatically putting the operating part of the device into an exposed state to enable the operation of this part at the time of operating the device, thereby eliminating the laboriousness of manually opening and closing the conventional operating part. CONSTITUTION:The operating part of the recording and reproducing device is automatically put into the exposed state to enable the operation and the non-exposed state to disable the operation by opening and closing an operating door 18 cooperatively with the loading and unloading actions of a loading mechanism for reversibly moving a housing body 19 housing a recording medium between a housing body attaching and detaching position and a moving position.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention accommodates a recording medium such as a magnetic recording / reproducing apparatus (hereinafter referred to as VCR) using a magnetic tape cassette and a video disk apparatus using a cartridge containing a disk-shaped recording medium. The stored container
Of the recording / reproducing apparatus equipped with a loading mechanism that can be reversibly moved to the operating position when it is inserted into the housing attachment / detachment position,
The present invention relates to an operation unit automatic opening / closing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, in a VCR or a video disc device, an operation button or an operation part of a volume for operating or adjusting the device is designed to prevent an inadvertent operation when the device is not operated or designed. It is often covered by the top door.

FIG. 3 shows a conventional VCR of this type. Figure 3
, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 are REC and P, respectively.
With each operation button of LAY, FF, STOP, REW,
Reference numeral 11 is a door that is manually opened and closed. Normally, the door 11 is closed, and REC, PLAY of 6,7,8,9,10,
The FF, STOP, and REW operation buttons are covered by the door 11. In addition, 2 is a cassette insertion slot into which a magnetic tape cassette is inserted, 3 is a display plate showing the operating state of the apparatus, and 4 and 5 are a power switch and a cassette eject button, respectively.

[0004]

However, such a V
In CR, the door had to be opened and closed manually during operation, which was not always convenient.

[0005]

In order to solve the above problems, an automatic operation unit opening / closing apparatus for a recording / reproducing apparatus according to the present invention is provided with a storage body storing a recording medium between a storage body attaching / detaching position and an operating position. , The operation unit of the recording / reproducing apparatus is interlocked with the loading operation of the reversible loading mechanism.
It is configured to have an exposed state that can be operated and a non-exposed state that cannot be operated.

[0006]

According to the present invention, the door of the operation portion is automatically opened and closed by the insertion / removal of the recording medium container such as the magnetic tape cassette, which has the above-mentioned structure, thereby improving the operability.

[0007]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An automatic opening / closing device for an operating section of a recording / reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic operating device opening / closing device for a VCR, and FIG. 2 is a side view of FIG.

1 and 2, reference numeral 12 is a loading unit, 13 is a loading motor, 14 and 15 are gears, 16 is an arm, 17 is a gear arm, and 18 is an operation door. Similar to the example, RE
A large number of operation buttons (not shown) such as C, PLAY, FF, and STOP are arranged.

In FIG. 1, when the tape cassette 19 is inserted into the loading unit 12 through the cassette insertion slot 2, the loading motor 13 is driven by the cassette insertion detection SW (not shown), and the gear attached to the shaft of the loading motor. The rotational torque is transmitted from 14 to the gear arm 17 via the gear 15. The gear arm 17 converts the rotational torque into a vertical slide motion, transmits it to the loading unit 12, and transfers the cassette tape 19 to the V position.
Load in operating position in CR. The above configuration is the same as the conventional loading mechanism.

A feature of this embodiment is that an arm 16 is attached to the gear 15 for the loading operation and is connected to the side surface of the operation door 18.

With the above construction, the rotational movement of the gear 15 at the time of loading is changed to the opening / closing movement of the operation door 18 by the arm 16, the operation door is automatically opened at the time of loading, and the automatic movement is made at the time of unloading. The operation door can be closed.

In the present embodiment, the opening / closing operation of the operation door 18 having the lid structure has been described. However, the operation door 18 may be opened / closed by the sliding structure, or the operation button may be directly placed on the inner surface of the door to open / close the door. , The operation buttons are operably exposed or unexposed, and can be applied depending on the design of the recording / reproducing apparatus.

[0014]

As described above, according to the present invention, an operating state and an inoperable non-exposing state in which the working section can be operated are interlocked with the loading and unloading operations of the housing containing the recording medium. Since it is automatically opened and closed depending on the state, it is possible to eliminate the complexity of the conventional manual operation of opening and closing the operation portion and improve the operability which is convenient.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automatic opening / closing device of an operation unit of a recording / reproducing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a side view of the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing an example of a conventional magnetic recording / reproducing apparatus.

[Explanation of symbols]

 12 Loading Unit 13 Loading Motor 14, 15 Gear 16 Arm 17 Gear Arm 18 Operation Door 19 Tape Cassette

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. An operating section of a recording / reproducing apparatus can be operated in association with a loading operation of a loading mechanism that reversibly moves a housing containing a recording medium between a housing attaching / detaching position and an operating position. The automatic opening / closing device of the operation part of the recording / reproducing apparatus, which is in a non-exposure state in which it is in a non-exposure state.