Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Pioneer Corporation

Ken Okamura

Yuji Ikedo

Yusuke Akama

Hideo Ito

Takahiro Okajima

Yoshitake Shimada

Takashi Nakai

Tomohiro Mizuno

Kuniya Satomi

Ryuji Tsukagoshi

Hidenori Takeda

A disk player which can insert and extract a disk, while a disk is being played, into and out of a compact body. During a movement in which one of disk trays is being moved from a disk standby position to a disk playing position, the disk comes into engagement with a disk playing means supporting mechanism to move the disk playing means in a predetermined direction.

Disk player

A disc player is provided with: a turn table ( ) for rotating an information record disc, which is placed on the turn table; a clamper ( ) for holding the information record disc between the clamper and the turn table; a chassis ( ) on which at least one of the clamper and the turn table is mounted and which has a rotation shaft ( ) parallel to a main surface of the information record disc held between the clamper and the turn table; a driving device ( ) for transmitting a driving force to the chassis so as to rotate the chassis with the rotation shaft at a rotation axis; and an optical pickup ( ) for at least reading a signal from the information record disc held between the clamper and the turn table while the disc is rotated on the turn table. A gap (W) is prepared between the rotation shaft and a bearing ( ) for the rotation shaft in a direction parallel to the main surface such that the rotation shaft has a play in the direction parallel to the main surface.

Disc player

There is provided a disc player which comprises a base section, a loading section linearly movably mounted on the base section, a rotary tray rotatably mounted on the loading section for receiving a plurality of discs, a driving motor provided in the loading section for producing a driving force, a turn table provided under the rotary tray. The disc player further includes a first operating mechanism for transmitting a driving force from the driving motor to the rotary tray, and for moving down the turn table when the rotary tray is to be rotated, a second operating mechanism for transmitting a driving force from the driving motor to said loading section to cause the loading section to linearly move with respect to said base section, a change-over for selecting an operation of the first operating mechanism or the second operating mechanism.

Single motor disc player with a Geneva mechanism

A magazine disk player for accommodating either a plurality of disks or a single disk. The disk player includes a magazine loading section for holding a magazine, disk conveyor for supplying a disk from the magazine to the turn table, and returning the disk thereinto, a magazine loading detecting device for detecting the loading of the magazine, an operating member which is movable between a first position and a second position, and which, when the magazine is loaded into the magazine loading section, is moved from the first position to the second position being engaged with the magazine, a locking member provided near the magazine loading section in such a manner that the locking member is movable between a locking position and a non-locking position, and which is engaged with the magazine to lock the latter to the magazine loading section being urged towards the locking position wherein the magazine loading detector detects the position of the locking member. In the player, the operating member is maintained engaged with the locking member to inhibit the movement of the locking member while being moved from the first position to the second position, and the inhibition of the movement of the locking member is eliminated when the operating member reaches the second position.

Magazine disk player having an improved magazine detecting feature

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Tokorozawa, Japan

Ken Okamura