Sony Corporation

Kunitaka Nerome

Kiyoshi Omori

Hiroyuki Fukuchi

Koji Natsubori

Takashi Ootsuka

Tsuyoshi Abiko

Manabu Yoshii

Tatsuya Isoda

Yoko Maruyama

A disc drive apparatus is adapted to be driven when incorporated into a host appliance provided with a see-through section and comprises a disc receiving section for receiving a disc-shaped recording medium, a disc rotary drive mechanism for driving the disc-shaped recording medium to rotate, a recording and/or reproduction mechanism for recording information signals on and/or reproducing information signals from the disc-shaped recording medium and an apparatus main body arranged in correspondence to the see-through section formed in the host appliance and provided with a see-through hole exposing part of the disc-shaped recording medium placed on the disc receiving section to the outside of the host appliance by way of the see-through section.

Disc drive apparatus and electronic appliance

Growing community of inventors

Kanagawa, Japan

Kunitaka Nerome