Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Hiromi Nakanishi

Masahiro Nakamura

Hiroyuki Nakazato

An optical disk apparatus is provided with an outer casing, a tray, a disk driving motor, holding claws, and bosses. The tray is movable in and out of the interior of the outer casing. An optical disk, which is either uncovered or contained in a cartridge, is placed on the tray for information processing. The disk driving motor, located inside the outer casing, rotates the optical disk when the optical disk is placed thereon and conveyed into the outer casing while being held on the tray. The holding claws are provided on the tray. When the outer casing is stood and the optical disk is uncovered, the holding claws hold the optical disk. The bosses retreat the holding claws in a direction away from the optical disk only when the optical disk held by the holding claws is fitted on the optical disk driving motor.

Optical disk apparatus for preventing damage to an optical disk

A disc player for playing compact audio discs includes a plurality of horizontally spaced disc compartments each including a disc tray for holding a disc horizontally and a disc playback module horizontally movable between and alignable with the disc compartments for playing the discs held in the disc trays. Each disc tray is independently extendable from or retractable into its respective disc compartment for loading and unloading discs in the disc compartment.

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiromi Nakanishi