Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Hirokuni Hagita

Takahiro Sato

Yuuichi Kuze

Takuto Yamazaki

Masanori Ohnishi

Tatsuro Nishi

Yasue Chihara

Akihito Yoshimi

Daichi Tamaki

A recording and reproducing apparatus of this disclosure includes, reader writerwhich acquires magazine identifying information and capacity information from RF tagprovided with magazine, information storage unitwhich stores contents information recorded on optical discsand the magazine identifying information and the capacity information acquired by the information acquiring unit, information comparing unitwhich compares the capacity information acquired by reader writerand the capacity information stored in information storage unit. When two pieces of the capacity information compared by information comparing unitmatch, the contents information stored in information storage unitis displayed on display unit. When two pieces of the capacity information compared by information comparing unitare different, the contents information is read out from optical discsby controlling drive, and the read-out contents information is displayed on display unit

Recording and reproducing apparatus

An optical disc device according to the present invention performs, in parallel, a first control to convey a first tray in the first optical disc drive group from the disc replacing position to the recording and reproducing position, and a second control to convey a second tray in the second optical disc drive groupR from the recording and reproducing position to the disc replacing position. The second tray is opposed to the first tray.

Optical disc device including a carrier for holding optical discs in a stacked state

A disc device supplies a disc to each of a plurality of disc drives. The disc device includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs being stacked in such a stacked state, which separates one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray ejected from an arbitrary one of the disc drives, and which places the separated disc on the tray. The carrier includes a plurality of claw portions holding the inner circumferential portion of the bottommost disc out of the plurality of discs, and a disc press pressing the topmost disc out of the plurality of discs so as to be in parallel to the disc placing face of the tray.

Disc device having a carrier for retaining a plurality of discs in a stacked state

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Osaka, Japan

Hirokuni Hagita