Pad assembly for use in a magnetic tape cassette

摘要

A magnetic tape cassette including a pressure pad which consists of a pad piece and a leaf spring holding the piece in place, characterized in that the leaf spring is formed, in one piece, of a pad-piece-holding portion supporting the back side of said pad piece, two wing portions and Y-shaped portions extending from the upper and lower edge sections of the both ends of said pad-piece-holding portion and joining said both wing portions is provided. The present pressure pad is capable of exerting a uniform pressure to a magnetic tape against a magnetic recording and reproducing head of a magnetic tape cassette recorder when said cassette is put in position of the recorder and the recorder is placed in the recording or reproducing mode.