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User-operated amusement apparatus for kicking the user's buttocks
An apparatus including a user-operated and controlled apparatus for self-infliction of repetitive blows to the user's buttocks by a plurality of elongated arms bearing flexible extensions that rotate under the user's control.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7420758 | Head system, recording and reproduction system, and magnetic recording method Disclosed is a head system including a plurality of recording heads for azimuth recording. The system includes a first recording head having a plurality of magnetic gaps having a first azimuth angle, and a second recording head having a plurality of magnetic gaps ha... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7408736 | Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus A magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus is disclosed that is arranged to receive a tape cassette accommodating a tape recording medium that is selectively loaded thereto. The loaded tape cassette is selected from plural types of tape cassettes accommodating tape ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7372661 | Tape guide system for engaging different tape widths A tape guide system for supporting magnetic tape about a rotary scan drum of a data transfer apparatus is disclosed. The tape guide system comprises a tape guide and a guide ramp. The tape guide has a supporting surface for supporting the magnetic tape in the tape g... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7342742 | Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus A magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus includes a rotatable head cylinder for recording information to, and/or reproducing information from, a magnetic tape; a tape pull-out member for pulling out the magnetic tape; and a guide member for guiding the tape p... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7256958 | Loading gear supporting apparatus of video cassette recorder Disclosed is a loading gear supporting apparatus of a video cassette recorder which can assemble a loading gear supporting member which supports a pole base loading gear, a first loading gear, and a second loading gear to a deck more simply. To this end, a locking p... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7221535 | Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus A magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus includes a main chassis having a rotatable head cylinder provided thereon; and a sub chassis on which a tape cassette is mountable. The sub chassis is movable with respect to the main chassis between a tape cassette mo... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7215505 | Pole base assembly for magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus A pole base assembly for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus for guiding a tape drawn from a reel through a predetermined path in parallel or substantially in parallel toward a lead surface of a head drum. The pole base assembly comprises a pole base disposed... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7209316 | Magnetic recording/reproducing device including a tape pull-out member having a projection for contacting a ramp surface A magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus includes a cylinder; a chassis section having the cylinder provided thereon; a tape pull-out member pulling out the magnetic tape; a positioning member having a ramp surface; and an urging section for urging the tape p... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7180697 | Tape loading apparatus A tape loading apparatus comprises a base, a tape guide post about which a tape is wrapped for tape loading, and a post end contact member provided on the base for fixing the height of the tape guide post by contacting and pressing an end surface of the tape guide p... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7161762 | Magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus A magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus includes a main chassis having a rotatable head cylinder provided thereon; a sub chassis on which a tape cassette is mountable; and a plurality of tape pull-out members acting so as to pull out a tape from the tape cas... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7116520 | Guide roller and magnetic tape drive A clockwise helical groove is formed on the outer periphery surface of a rigid roller toward one end from the center position in the axial direction. A counter-clockwise helical groove is formed on the outer periphery surface of the roller toward the other end from ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7106794 | System and method for Huffman shaping in a data communication system In a communication system, Huffman coding techniques are used to obtain shaping gains for an improvement in data transmission rates. More particularly, a novel method of Huffman shaping is described that achieves a shaping gain of greater than 1 dB. The shaping gain... | 09/12/2006 |
| 6822820 | Apparatus for detecting damage to the transducer head and/or tape guide of an interactive media device A data tape drive for recording information on the data tape of a tape cartridge has a transducer head with air bleed slots that define side walls, a tape guide, and a device for detecting damage to the transducer head and tape guide. The damage detection device has... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6801385 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus having an inclined guide post and tape guide restricting structure A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing data by drawing a tape from a cassette and winding the tape onto a rotating drum including a head, includes a non-rotatable inclined post for changing the position of the tape in a direction c... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6515833 | Rotating drum assembly and magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus having a tape-contact piece A rotating drum assembly, and a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus including the rotating drum assembly, are provided. The rotating drum assembly comprises a cylindrical rotating drum; a magneto-resistive head installed on the rotating drum to proje... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6288864 | Calibration of magnetic tape drive In a method of calibrating a helical scan magnetic tape drive, a dual scan calibration tape having a calibration stripe is loaded into the tape drive. As a head traverses differing paths along the calibration stripe, a series of calibration signal wavefor... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6282057 | Magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus, with inclination adjusting system An apparatus of the present invention is a magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus for pulling out a magnetic tape from a tape cassette, forming a predetermined tape drive system with a group of tape guide posts while winding the magnetic tape around a ... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6256167 | Magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus having a mechanism for pulling a magnetic tape out of a cassette An apparatus of the present invention is a magnetic recording/reproduction apparatus for pulling out a magnetic tape from a cassette, forming a predetermined tape drive system with a group of tape guide posts while winding the magnetic tape around a rotar... | 07/03/2001 |
| 5991128 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus having tape travel direction control arrangement which prevents tape slippage and slack generation A tape guide system includes a rotary head drum inclined by a predetermined angle relative to a mechanical chassis of a recording and/or reproducing apparatus on which the head drum is mounted. A guide roller extends essentially vertically relative to the... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5953185 | Pole base assembly of a video cassette recorder A pole base assembly comprises a supporting bar, a guide cap having a lower planar portion for preventing a magnetic tape from upwardly diverging, a pole base having a protruding guide surface for preventing the magnetic tape from downwardly diverging and... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5949621 | Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus having double tilting member for dynamic tracking The magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus of the present invention performs a fast forward reproduction, a fast backward reproduction, a still picture reproduction and the time-lapse recording. To correct for noise-bar the magnetic heads mounted on an ... | 09/07/1999 |
| 5914840 | Magnetic tape guide apparatus A magnetic tape guide apparatus which can guide not only a magnetic tape having an applied magnetic layer thereon but also a magnetic thin metal film magnetic tape with a high transport performance is disclosed. The magnetic tape guide apparatus comprises... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5894376 | Apparatus and method for monitoring read/write reliability of data storage device The present invention provides an apparatus and method for monitoring the read/write reliability of data storage devices contained within a data cartridge library system. The data cartridge library system includes multiple player/recorder devices. In acco... | 04/13/1999 |
| 5835301 | Multi-track helical scanning system A head drum, as a first embodiment, for scanning a magnetic tape guided at an angle (θD) to the head drum assembly includes 2N number of video heads being divided into a first and a second groups, each group having N video heads being position... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5793562 | Head drum protector for magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus A head drum protector for a magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus, such as a slide type camera recorder. The head drum protector is preferably integrated and comprises a head drum protecting wall for protecting a rotary head drum, an opening provid... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5786959 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus with rotary drum unit An apparatus for recording and/or reproducing information on or from a tape includes a rotary drum unit having a rotary drum which has at least one head and a fixed drum which is arranged to rotatably support the rotary drum, and a loading member arranged... | 07/28/1998 |
| 5734537 | Tape guide structure of rotary head drum in recording/reproduction apparatus and method of machining the same In a rotary head drum of a recording/reproduction apparatus, for smoothly holding a magnetic tape over a guide step provided on a lower drum to guide the magnetic tape, part of a chamfer formed in the guide step is formed as a large chamfer in which a cha... | 03/31/1998 |
| 5729407 | Rotary head drum with integrated yoke and vibration resistant base A rotary head drum of a magnetic recording/playback apparatus having a back yoke integrated with a ring collar. The head drum includes a rotatable shaft, an upper rotary drum and a lower stationary drum which are mounted on upper and lower parts of the ro... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5724214 | Discharging device for head drum The present invention is related to a discharging device for a head drum, and more particularly to a discharging device, wherein the static electricity which occurred from the head drum is effectively discharged using the discharge device. A fixed end of ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5675458 | Magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus with independently tiltable head drum and tape lead guide The present invention relates to a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus capable of performing a fast forward reproduction, a fast backward reproduction, a still picture reproduction and the time-lapse recording. The magnetic recording/reproducing appa... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5636080 | Magnetic recording/playback apparatus having a leaf-type resilient member which is provided between a guide post and a type loading member and is urged against the guide post The invention is concerned with a magnetic recording/playback apparatus in which a magnetic tape is pulled out from a tape cassette and wound around a cylindrical rotary head cylinder, having a rotary head built therein, over a predetermined angle to reco... | 06/03/1997 |
| 5529831 | Thin film device A thin film device comprising a substrate which is magnetic and has insulation property at least on the surface, coils formed spirally in a planar configuration on the substrate, a first interlayer insulation film formed to a portion excepting for the ter... | 06/25/1996 |
| 5523906 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus having mechanism for causing rotary drum and tape cassette to relatively come close to each other In a recording and/or reproducing apparatus of the kind arranged to cause a tape extending along the front side of an opening part of a tape cassette to be relatively wrapped around the circumferential surface of a rotary drum by causing the rotary drum t... | 06/04/1996 |
| 5490019 | Magnetic tape driving system having rotating member with increased angle of rotation The invention is concerned with a magnetic recording/playback apparatus in which a magnetic tape is pulled out from a tape cassette and wound around a cylindrical rotary head cylinder, having a rotary head built therein, over a predetermined angle to reco... | 02/06/1996 |
| 5395067 | System for controlling tape traveling height and tape guide with tape edge detector therefor A tape travel controlling system in a recording/reproducing apparatus according to the present invention includes a tape width detector, a tape traveling path adjuster for changing a set condition(s) for a tape guide(s), and a tape traveling path controll... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5307219 | Tape loading device A tape loading device capable of obtaining sufficient information in a region of a tape necessary for recording and reproduction. The tape loading device being provided with two guide assemblies (38) and (47) for wrapping a magnetic tape (6) drawn from a ... | 04/26/1994 |
| 5296994 | Magnetic tape guide mechanism for magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus A magnetic tape guide mechanism for a magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus which includes a base having a large-inner-diameter hole with a larger inner diameter than a shaft hole, and a resilient synthetic resin member located in the large-inner-diame... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5293283 | Tape guiding assembly for recording and/or reproducing apparatus employing ultrasonically vibrated tape guides In a tape recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a guide drum with rotary heads for recording or reproducing signals in slant tracks scanned on a longitudinally transported tape wrapped helically about a circumferential surface of the drum between ... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5282189 | System for thermally erasing data stored on an optical recording medium A system for erasing data stored on an optical storage medium includes a housing, a guiding means mounted within the housing for guiding the optical recording medium on which the data is stored, and a heating means mounted in spaced-apart opposition to th... | 01/25/1994 |
| 5270890 | Helical scan type rotary head apparatus The present invention relates a helical scan-type magnetic recording and reproducing for use in VTR or DAT. This apparatus includes a head scanning mechanism which helically scans the tape (3) that runs in parallel with a reference plane using a head (4) ... | 12/14/1993 |
