Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Minoru Nagata

Fuminobu Furukawa

Yoshinobu Soeda

Tsuyoshi Kakuta

Junichi Mutoh

Hideru Goto

Nobuo Jikuya

The invention provides a disc drive apparatus which is suitable for making the apparatus compact, light and thin and make it possible to automatically mount and discharge the disc. The disc drive apparatus has pick-up means and transfer means, and the transfer means has medium driving means, synchronous driving means and positioning means which is brought into contact with an outer peripheral edge of the disc. Accordingly, the disc can be transferred in a direction of a disc surface and can be positioned by the positioning means.

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Fukuoka, Japan

Minoru Nagata