Patent ID: 7161762

Claim:
A magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus, comprising: 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 representing all tape pull-out members included in the magnetic recording and reproduction apparatus acting so as to pull out a tape from the tape cassette; wherein: the sub chassis is movable with respect to the main chassis between a tape cassette mountable position and a tape pull-out completion position, and the tape cassette mountable position is the position at which the tape cassette is mountable on the sub chassis and the tape pull-out completion position is the position at which information recording to, and information reproduction from, the tape which has been pulled out from the tape cassette and wound around the rotatable head cylinder can be performed; and all the plurality of tape pull-out members are mounted on the sub chassis.