Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Hirofumi Furukawa

Shinichi Maeda

Ichiro Kawamura

Yoshiyuki Hashimoto

Yoshiaki Nakatsuka

Hidehiko Ota

Toshio Yoshimatsu

Mariko Fukuyama, By

A disk loading apparatus may include a first retaining device that is arranged in a slot for a disk to be inserted and thereby retains the outer edge of the disk so as to permit it to pass through the slot. A transferring device transfers the disk retained by the first retaining device to a predetermined position. A second retaining device is arranged in the interior from the slot and thereby retains the outer edge of the disk retained by the first retaining device and transferred by the transferring device. A rotating device rotates the disk at the predetermined position. Also, each of the first and second retaining devices has a contact section for contacting with the outer edge, upper surface, and lower surface of the disk in a slidable manner.

Disk loading apparatus in recording and reproducing apparatus

The present invention has an object to provide a recording and reproducing device which can be used both for a cartridge disk (6) and for a cartridge-less disk (3) and reduced in size and weight, and which is capable of aligning a cartridge-less disk (3). A disk holder (14) adapted to set a cartridge disk (6) therein is provided on one and the other sides thereof with positioning means adapted to abut against a cartridge-less disk (3) set in the disk holder (14) to prevent it from moving to the innermost region R of the disk holder (14) and align it in a position corresponding to a rotational driving device (9), said positioning means being in the form of a CD stopper (20) and a step (30) formed in a shutter opener lever (19), thereby supporting and aligning the disk (3).

Recording and reproducing device

A recording and reproducing apparatus using high density recording disk, such as optical disk. The recording and reproducing device of this invention can accommodated both disk and disk cartridges of a plurality of differing sizes. Because this invention can accommodate both disk and disk cartridges, a single device that can both record and reproduce information to or from a high density disk is achieved.

Disk recording and reproducing apparatus

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Katano, Japan

Hirofumi Furukawa