Sony Corporation

Sony Optiarc Inc.

Hisashi Negoro

Hideaki Tsutsumi

Manabu Obata

Yoichiro Mitsumoto

Zensaku Mitsuji

Mitsunori Matsumura

Keiji Jitsukawa

Morihiro Murata

Tomoyasu Takaoka

Shunsuke Nirei

Yusuke Hirano

Mitsuru Iba

A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate.

Disc drive apparatus and electronic apparatus

A disk drive unit advantageously prevents dust from adhering to a pickup. The disk drive unit has a housing and a tray. The tray reciprocates between a retracted position and a projected position. A first pickup and a second pickup have a spindle motor located therebetween. The tray has a first cutout and a second cutout. A cover is provided to cover the top of the second pickup in its retreated position. The cover has a cover piece, which is disposed in a front portion of the cover that is positioned on the upstream side relative to the rotational direction of a disk-shaped recording medium such that it is movable in a direction parallel to the direction in which the second pickup moves, and urged in the projecting direction.

Disk drive unit

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

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

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Chiba, Japan

Hisashi Negoro