Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Hidetoshi Yamasaki

Masae Murata

Akira Yamanaka

Yasukazu Yomogita

Manabu Taguchi

Yukio Noya

Naoki Sibuya

An auto player technique is provided in a recording/reproducing apparatus storing a plurality of disks, wherein size of the apparatus can be reduced in height and width and positioning accuracy can be increased. A pair of tray stockers are disposed right and left. A lifter transporting the tray in a vertical direction is disposed behind the tray stockers. The lifter includes a tray extracting mechanism selectively extracting disks from the tray stockers. The tray extracting mechanism simultaneously engages with two trays disposed at the same height of the right and left tray stockers when extracting trays. A recording/reproducing device is disposed below the lifter. A drive mechanism engages with the recording/reproducing device to shift it in a right and left direction. A lock mechanism is provided to engage with the recording/reproducing device when the drive mechanism is disengaged from the recording/reproducing device.

Recording/reproducing apparatus including an auto changer for a

A disk magazine for use with an audio and a video instrument of the type using disks and accommodating a stack of disks therein includes generally rectangular trays each of which is bodily removable from a casing of the magazine through an opening, which is formed only through the front end of the casing. Each tray is guided by horizontally aligned ones of tray guides which are arranged in steps on the inner periphery of each of opposite side walls of the casing with respect to an intended direction of tray insertion. Whether or not the tray is inserted in a correct position into the casing is checked to prevent the tray from being loaded in a position other than the correct one.

Disk magazine

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Atsugi, Japan

Hidetoshi Yamasaki