Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Jun Chiba

Takashi Nakai

Shinkichi Sasaki

Harutaka Sekiya

A door opening-and-closing mechanism of a recording/reproducing apparatus including a door axially supported at the back side of a front face plate so as to be capable of opening and closing an opening, and a lock member for preventing free rotational movement of the door. The lock member includes a supporting shaft rotatably supported at the back side of the front face plate, lock portions which engage and disengage the door, and a portion to be pushed that projects into the opening, which are formed into an integral structure. The portion to be pushed is pushed by a disk cartridge being inserted in order to disengage the lock portions and the door from each other.

Door opening-and-closing mechanism of recording/reproducing apparatus

A head transport mechanism for reciprocating a carriage in a radial direction of a disc using a linear motor as a drive source is disclosed. In the head transport mechanism, cylindrical projections are formed on a support plate, threads are cut on the inner surfaces of the projections, and cutouts are formed in the distal ends of bottom yokes. The cutouts are brought into contact with the outer peripheral surfaces of the projections so as to locate the bottom yoke. In addition, protrusions protruding outward from superposed portions of the bottom yokes and top yokes in a longitudinal and/or lateral direction of the bottom yokes are formed in at least one end of each of the bottom yokes so that the top yokes can be assembled with the protrusions pressed when assembling the head transport mechanism.

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Miyagi-ken, Japan

Jun Chiba