Oblon, Fisher, Spivak, McClelland & Maier
Fixed reel type endless tape cassette
 An endless tape cassette including a stationary reel having a slit communicating the inner and outer peripheral sides and carrying an endless tape wound on the outer periphery, guide plates for guiding the endless tape wound on the stationary reel such that it is pulled out from the inner periphery of the tape roll through the slit and taken up on the outer periphery of the tape reel, and a housing accommodating and supporting the stationary reel and guide plates. The housing includes a bottom plate formed with an opening for permitting a tape drive mechanism to be inserted therethrough into housing for operative coupling to said endless tape, a top plate facing said bottom plate, a pair of side plates, a front end plate and a rear end plate. A flexible lid member is provided on the housing to be movable between a first position at which it extends along the bottom plate for closing the opening in the bottom plate and a second position at which it extends along the top plate for opening the opening in the bottom plate. 
Tokyo Shibaura Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
G G
G11B G11B
inventional inventional
Morio Hiroshi Seiichi
Akino Yamashita Yanagida