Helical scan type video tape recorder

Claim 2

A helical scan type video tape recording apparatus having an editing function, comprising: a rotary body; a rotary video head secured to said rotary body for recording video signals on a video tape in a plurality of skewed video tracks; recording control means for supplying recording current to said video head in response to a recording command signal; a rotary erase head secured to said rotary body for erasing video signals recorded in selected video tracks, said rotary erase head being positioned to scan said video tracks ahead of said video head by at least one video tracks interval; and erasing control means for supplying erasing current to said rotary erase head in response to said recording command signal.

Claim 3

A helical scan type video tape recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said erasing control means supplies said erasing current to said rotary erase head in advance, by at least one video track interval, of the recording current supplied to said rotary video head.

Claim 4

A helical scan type video type recording apparatus according to claim 1, wherein two rotary video heads are secured to said rotary body at positions spaced apart from each other by 180 degrees; and two rotary erase heads are also provided on said rotary body spaced apart from each other by 180 degrees.

Claim 5

A helical scan type video tape recording apparatus according to claim 3, wherein said two rotary video heads have azimuth angles which are different from each other, and said plurality of skewed video tracks are formed without guard bands between adjacent video tracks.

Claim 6

A helical scan type video tape recording apparatus according to claim 4, wherein said rotary erase heads are positioned to scan said video tracks ahead of the respectively associated rotary video heads by more than one video track interval.

Claim 7

A helical scan type video tape recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein the effective track width of said rotary video heads is equal to or larger than the effective track width of said rotary erase heads.

Claim 8

A helical scan type video tape recording apparatus according to claim 5, wherein each of said rotary video heads and a respective one of said rotary erase heads constitute a combination head, with two such combination heads being secured to said rotary body at positions spaced apart from each other by 180 degrees.

Claim 9

A helical scan type video tape recording apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the rotary head and video head of each said combination head have the same azimuth angle.

Claim 10

In a helical scan type video tape recording apparatus of the type adapted to perform an editing operation and having a rotary body, a first magnetic head assembly comprising: a first video head secured to said rotary body for recording video signals on a video tape in a plurality of parallel tracks extending obliquely on the tape; and a first erase head integrally formed with said first video head and secured to said rotary body for erasing video signals recorded in said video tracks, said erase head being positioned to scan said video tracks with the scanning position of said first erase head being always displaced ahead of the scanning position of said video head by at least one video track interval in the scanning direction of said heads.

Claim 11

In a helical scan type video tape recording apparatus of the type adapted to perform an editing operation and having a rotary body, a first magnetic head assembly comprising: a first video head secured to said rotary body for recording video signals on a video tape in a plurality of parallel tracks extending obliquely on the tape; and a first erase head integrally formed with said first video head and secured to said rotary body for erasing video signals recorded in said video tracks, said erase head being positioned to scan said video tracks with the scanning position of said first erase head being always displaced ahead of the scanning position of said video head by at least one video track interval in the scanning direction of said heads.

Claim 12

A video tape recording apparatus according to claim 9; wherein said first video head has an air gap with a first azimuth angle and said first erase head has an air gap with said first azimuth angle.

Claim 13

A video tape recording apparatus according to claim 9; further including a second magnetic head assembly comprising: a second video head secured to said rotary body for recording video signals on said video tape in a plurality of parallel tracks extending obliquely on the tape; and a second erase head integrally formed with said second video head and secured to said rotary body for erasing video signals recorded in selected ones of said video tracks, said second erase head being positioned to scan said selected ones of said video tracks with the scanning position of said second erase head being always displaced ahead of the scanning position of said second video head by at least one video track interval in the scanning direction of said second head.

Claim 14

A video tape recording apparatus according to claim 11; wherein said second magnetic head assembly is displaced from said first magnetic head assembly on said rotary body by 180 degrees.

Claim 15

A video tape recording apparatus according to claim 11; wherein said second video head has an air gap with a second azimuth angle different from said first azimuth angle and said second erase head has an air gap with said second azimuth angle.

Claim 16

A video tape recording apparatus according to claim 11; wherein the length of the air gaps of said first and second erase heads is not greater than the length of the air gaps of said first and second video heads, respectively.

Claim 17

A video tape recording apparatus according to claim 11; wherein said first video head scans alternate tracks on said tape and said second video head scans the remaining alternate tracks on said tape.