Sony Corporation

Sony Nec Optiarc Inc.

Hideaki Tsutsumi

Manabu Obata

Yoichiro Mitsumoto

Kiyoshi Omori

Shigeru Tamura

Mitsunori Matsumura

Hisashi Negoro

Yuji Suzuki

Katsunori Takahashi

Zensaku Mitsuji

Ryuji Kusumi

Yusuke Izumiya

Noriyoshi Ishii

Yusuke Hirano

A disk drive apparatus includes: a disk table on which a disk recording medium inserted into a disk insertion port for loading is mounted; an eject lever rotatably supported by a chassis, and having a disk holding part that holds the inserted medium; and a support lever rotatably supported by the chassis and having a disk holding part, wherein these levers are rotated between a waiting position at which the disk holding part waits for the inserted medium and a drawing position at which the medium held by the disk holding part is drawn, wherein when the eject lever and the support lever are at the waiting positions, the disk holding parts are each positioned at a position which is located more on the disk insertion port side than a centering projecting part of the disk table and is not overlapped with the insertion direction of the medium.

Disk drive apparatus and electronic appliance

A recording medium drive device includes: a holding unit configured to hold a recording medium inserted from a slot; a link mechanism including a plurality of arms turnably connected to each other; an eject lever activated in response to the turning motions of the link mechanism for pushing the recording medium to eject the recording medium from the slot; a drive source configured to supply a drive force for the turning operations of the link mechanism; an urging spring disposed in the link mechanism for applying an urging force in the ejecting direction to the recording medium when the recording medium is inserted from the slot; and position regulating means disposed at a position to suppress the urging spring for the recording medium, for regulating the arms of the link mechanism at the ejecting time.

Disk transfer mechanism, and disk drive device

A disk transfer includes: a transfer arm rotatably supported by an apparatus body to/from which a disk-shaped recording medium is inserted and removed, when the disk-shaped recording medium is inserted, rotated in an insertion direction by being pressed by the disk-shaped recording medium, and when the disk-shaped recording medium is ejected, rotated in an ejection direction to eject the disk-shaped recording medium; and a lift section provided with a rotation axis supported at a tip end portion of the transfer arm rotatably in a direction substantially orthogonal to a main surface of the disk-shaped recording medium, and from the rotation axis, an abutting piece abuts against the disk-shaped recording medium on a front side surface in the insertion direction inserted in the apparatus body. A support piece supports a lower surface portion of the disk-shape recording medium.

Disk transfer mechanism and disk recording and/or reproduction apparatus

A disk drive device includes a device main body in which a disk slot for inserting and removing a disk-like recording medium is provided, a disk holding unit that rotatably holds the disk-like recording medium, a main chassis that supports the disk holding unit and a base unit, an arm unit rotatably supported on one or the other side in a plane parallel to the disk-like recording medium, an urging arm that urges the disk-like recording medium, a first centering member that supports the side of the disk-like recording medium, and a second centering member that supports the side of the disk-like recording medium. The first centering member and the second centering member are regulated in positions to support the side of the disk-like recording medium. The first centering member and the second centering member support the disk-like recording medium in a centering position.

Disk drive device and centering members therefor

A recording medium driving device which records information in or reproduces information from the recording medium, includes a device body in which a recording medium is inserted and from which the recording medium is removed, a conveying mechanism that conveys the recording medium in a loading direction and an eject direction, a mounting section on which the recording medium is mounted, a conveyance arm that moves according to movement of the recording medium in the loading direction and the eject direction and conveys the recording medium, and a driving mechanism that has a driving source for imparting a driving force for moving the conveyance arm. The conveyance arm includes a contact section that brought into contact with the recording medium and an urging member that urges the contact section in the eject direction of the recording medium.

Disk conveying apparatus

A disk recording-reproducing apparatus ensures a large transport distance of a tray which moves a disk-shaped recording medium between an ejecting position and a recording-reproducing position while decreasing a dimension in the transport direction. A drive section () is built into a tray () which can be extracted from and retracted into an external chassis () and moves a disk-shaped recording medium between the ejecting position and the recording-reproducing position. A pinion () comprises an output end of the drive section () and rolls on a rack () of a chucking slider () to self-propel the tray (). After the tray () completely moves to the recording-reproducing apparatus side, an output from the drive section () of the tray () is used to move the chucking slider () to the ejecting direction of the tray (). Then, a cam groove () provided on the chucking slider () is used to raise a base unit ().

Disc type recording/reproduction device

A disc type recording and/or reproducing apparatus automatically performs the opening and closing of a shutter provided on a cartridge housing an optical disc in its case, and prevents the above-mentioned opening and closing mechanism from affecting the cartridge after an end of loading. When a DVR cartridge () is drawn into a recording and reproducing position by means of a tray (), a shutter opening and closing mechanism () arranged on the side of the apparatus is relatively moved with regard to the cartridge (). Thereby, shutter plates () of the cartridge () are opened or closed. Then, after the shutter plates () are completely released, the shutter opening and closing mechanism () is retracted by means of a cam () to be away from the cartridge ().

Disc type recording and/or reproducing apparatus

In a disc cartridge, the shutter opening/closing operation is to be performed reliably. To this end, the distal ends of a first engagement memberand a second engagement memberprovided to a baseare pivotally movable in a direction along a lateral surface of a housing, in addition to being movable in a direction perpendicular to the lateral surface of the housing. The state of engagement of the first engagement memberand the second engagement member, provided to the base, with a first mating engagement sectionand with a second mating engagement section, provided to an inner rotor, facing outwards from one lateral surface of the housing, when the baseperforms relative movement along the lateral surface of the housing, may be maintained for prolonged time, while the load applied to the distal ends during engagement and disengagement may be reduced.

Shutter closing mechanism and disc driving apparatus

A disk drive apparatus includes a casing having an upper plate; and a tray. The upper plate includes an arm having an attracted member fixed thereto. When the tray moves from a protruding position to a recording-and-playback position, since engagements of the arm and the tray are engaged with each other, the main body of the arm swings, and the attracted member serves as a chucking position facing a chucked portion of the disk-shaped recording medium placed on the tray. When the tray moves from the recording-and-playback position to the protruding position, since the engagement of the arm is detached from the engagement of the tray, the main body of the arm swings, and the attracted member serves as a retracting position retracting above the chucked portion of the disk-shaped recording medium.

Disk drive apparatus

Disc recording and/or reproduction apparatus

Disclosed is a disk recording and reproduction apparatus for recording and/or reproduction of optical disks of multiple different formats impossible to record or reproduce with a single pickup. A disk recording and reproduction apparatus containing a base unit () with two separate optical pickups () and () corresponding to two different format types and installed around the center of a turntable () for rotating a disk.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hideaki Tsutsumi