Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Naoki Shimada

Hidehiro Ishii

Masuhiro Sato

Naoki Masaki

Masayori Shinohara

Osamu Hira

A compact disk player has a magazine containing a plurality of disks. Identification data, about a last disk which has been played before the stop of the playing of the disk, is detected. A memory is provided for storing the detected identification data. The last disk, data of which is stored in the memory, is played at the next time by operating a stop key.

Control system for a compact disk player

An apparatus and a method of stopping a spindle motor for rotating a composite disk in a disk player. The composite disk contains a first area having information recorded thereon at a first rotational frequency, and a second area having information recorded thereon at a second rotational frequency which is greater than the first rotational frequency. The spindle motor is stopped when a stop or eject command is instructed during or after information is read from the second area of the composite disk by moving a pickup for reproducing information recorded on the disk to the first area and supplying a counter torque brake signal to the spindle motor, thereby slowing the rotational frequency of the disk to a rotational frequency in which information can be read from the first area. A further counter torque brake signal is supplied to the spindle motor for a predetermined amount of time after the moved pickup begins to read information recorded on the first area to thereby stop the rotation of the composite disk.

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Saitama, Japan

Naoki Shimada