Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Ryuzo Abe

Hiroyuki Sugiyama

Masaki Sakurai

Kenji Yoshihara

Yasuhiro Yusa

An apparatus for detecting position of a reproducing transducer in a rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus which reproduces an information signal recorded in a rotary recording medium by a reproducing transducer which is transferred towards the radial direction of the rotary recording medium, comprises a single photo-detector having a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element, provided in a manner so as to be transferred unitarily with the reproducing transducer, a light interrupting plate provided at a fixed part of the rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus, for operating together with the photo-detector, and a position detection signal producing circuit for producing a position detection output signal according to an output of said photo-detector, to indicate that the reproducing transducer has passed a position corresponding to the outermost peripheral position and the innermost peripheral position of the recorded region in the rotary recording medium. The light interrupting plate has a configuration so as to change state between a light interrupting state and a non-interrupting state with respect to the photo-detector, as the reproducing transducer passes a position corresponding to an outermost peripheral position and an innermost peripheral position of a recorded region in the rotary recording medium.

Apparatus for detecting position of a reproducing transducer in a rotary

A reproducing apparatus is capable of performing special reproduction of information signals recorded on a rotary recording medium. The information signals are recorded in either spiral track turns or concentric tracks. The reproducing apparatus comprises a detector for generating a rotation detection signal having a frequency which varies proportionally to the rotational speed of the rotary recording medium. A special signal generator generates a special reproduction synchronizing signal and a generator generates an external control signal based on a signal which is obtained by variably controlling the frequency of the special reproduction synchronizing signal. A manual switch varies the frequency of the special reproduction synchronizing signal by controlling the control signal generator responsive to an output code signal corresponding to a position of the manual switch. The manual switch is positioned at a predetermined neutral position to produce the external control signal once every one rotation of the rotary recording medium, to repetitively reproduce the same track. The manual switch varies the frequency of the external control signal to vary, with predetermined steps, a speed of picture motion of the reproduced information signal, corresponding to positions of the manual switch.

Rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus capable of performing

A case for a disc-shaped recording medium is used in a disc-shaped recording medium reproducing apparatus. The reproducing apparatus is provided with a turntable for rotating the disc-shaped recording medium, closing member locking mechanism provided at the innermost part of the disc-shaped recording medium reproducing apparatus, and N detection switches provided at the innermost part of the reproducing apparatus and disposed asymmetrically on the left and right sides with respect to a line which passes through the center of the turntable in the disc insertion direction. The case comprises a jacket for accommodating the disc-shaped recording medium, and a closing member for closing an opening of the jacket and being locked by the locking mechanism and confront the detection switches upon the disc-shaped recording medium being loaded into the reproducing apparatus. The closing member has cutout desired areas symmetrical on the left and right sides each of which consists of N desired sections where cutouts for discrimination are to be formed. The cutout desired sections for discrimination at symmetrical positions on the left and right side are brought into confront the same detection switch out of the N detection switch when the closing member is reversed up and down together with the jacket and the disc-shaped recording medium. One cutout desired section out of the pair of cutout desired sections symmetrical on the left and right sides has a cutout or a non-cutout for discriminating peculiality of a first side of the disc-shaped recording medium, and the other cutout desired section having a cutout or a non-cutout for discriminating peculiality of a second side of the disc-shaped recording medium.

Case for a disc-shaped recording medium

A rotary recording medium reproducing apparatus for reproducing a rotary recording medium in which an information signal consisting of a plurality of program contents and an address signal for discriminating a program number of the information signal are recorded, comprises a reproducing device for reproducing the information signal and the address signal from the rotary recording medium, a detection circuit for detecting the address signal from signals reproduced by the reproducing device, a setting circuit for setting a program number of a program which is to be reproduced after performing an automatic searching operation, a transferring device for transferring the reproducing means towards forward and backward directions on the rotary recording medium, and a comparator for comparing the program number set in the setting circuit with a program number of a program of the information signal being reproduced by the reproducing device, and producing and supplying a search signal to the transferring device so that the reproducing device is transferred towards a direction such that the two program numbers coincide. The comparator produces a signal to initiate reproduction of a predetermined mode from the beginning of the program whose program number is set in the setting circuit when the above two program numbers coincide with each other.

A state indicating device in a reproducing apparatus for reproducing a rotary recording medium recorded with signals which has been accommodated within a case, where the case has a space for accommodating the rotary recording medium, a jacket having an opening through which the rotary recording medium can enter or leave, and a lid plate inserted through the opening of the jacket to close the opening, and the reproducing apparatus has an inserting opening through which the case is inserted, a turntable for rotating the rotary recording medium, a lid plate locking mechanism and a rotary recording medium clamping mechanism respectively provided at the innermost part of the reproducing apparatus opposite to the inserting opening with respect to the turntable, a lowering and raising mechanism for lowering and raising the rotary recording medium between a position clamped by the clamping mechanism and a position on the turntable, reproducing device for reproducing recorded signals from the rotary recording medium, and a transferring mechanism for transferring the reproducing device over the rotary recording medium, the state indicating device comprises a first display for indicating a state possible for inserting the case into the reproducing apparatus, a second display for indicating a reproduction stand-by state in which the rotary recording medium is placed onto the turntable within the reproducing apparatus, a third display for indicating a reproducing state in which the rotary recording medium is being reproduced by the reproducing means, a fourth display for indicating a state possible for recovering the rotary recording medium outside of the reproducing apparatus, by inserting an empty jacket into the reproducing apparatus to accommodate the rotary recording medium within the jacket, and a detecting and driving circuit for detecting states of the reproducing apparatus and selectively driving displays of the first through fourth displays.

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Yokohama, Japan

Ryuzo Abe