Magnetic tape cassettes and processes for producing them
View Patent ↗The magnetic tape cassette has a base with an opening for forming a transparent window and a transparent resin-made window member to be installed in the opening. The window member is provided with an engaging unit which is to be fitted into the base at an angle and the base is provided with an engaging portion that is formed at an angle in correspondence to the engaging unit and the window member is installed in the opening by being fitted in at an angle.
1. A magnetic tape cassette having:
a base with an opening for forming a transparent window; and
a window member to be installed in said opening, wherein
said base has in at least a part of an inner circumferential area of said opening a rigid upper window frame, an elastically deformable lower window frame and a temporary fitting portion that allows said window member to be inserted between said upper and lower window frames,
said window member being made of a transparent resin that is a different material from the material of which said base is made, such that when heat or ultrasonic waves are allowed to act on the window member and the base, the two materials do not substantially mix, and
said upper window frame or said lower window frame around said opening or said window member is provided with a projection in a position where said upper window frame or said lower window frame contacts said window member, and wherein
said window member being inserted into said temporary fitting portion so that said lower frame deforms elastically to achieve a temporary joint between said window member and said base, and
ultrasonic waves or heat is allowed to act on said temporary joint.
2. The magnetic tape cassette according to claim 1 wherein said base is made of an ABS resin and said window member is made of a transparent AS resin.