Sony Corporation

Akira Ishihara

Takeshi Sano

Hiroaki Masuda

Yutaka Ogasawara

Kiyoshi Kawakubo

Daisuke Matsuo

Chikara Ute

Yukio Matsumoto

Noboru Fujita

To provide a disk supporting apparatus, a disk holding apparatus and a disk apparatus whose planar dimension is minimized, and which can be manufactured simply and inexpensively. A plurality of supporting portionsinclines with respect to a top portionas a vertex. A trayis formed into a substantially triangular pyramid (three-dimensional) configuration, and a planar dimension of the traycan be smaller than that of a conventional turntable. Accordingly, a plurality of disks can be mounted on the tray. The supporting portionof the traycan be placed in parallel to a door leaf without a slide mechanism that has conventionally been used for sliding a tray. Accordingly, a desired disk can be attached/detached merely by rotating and driving the tray, and a mechanism disposed at a stereo apparatus is made compact and manufactured inexpensively.

Disk holding apparatus, and disk apparatus

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Tochigi, Japan

Akira Ishihara