Pioneer Corporation

Shigekazu Wada

Tohru Kanegae

Yasumitsu Suzuki

Kouichi Yaeguchi

Hiroshi Takemoto

A front-loading disk player includes a player assembly for playing a disk having been carried thereto; a front panel positioned in front of said player assembly and having a slot for receiving therein either one of a bare disk and a cartridge disk holding a recording disk therein; a cover section for blocking said slot having a through hole; and a lock unit for locking an operation of opening said slot. The lock unit includes a locking assembly for fixing the cover section at a position to close the slot and an unlocking rivet provided into the through hole. The unlocking rivet is configured to move in a same direction in which the cartridge disk is inserted in the slot so as to cause the locking assembly to be released from the cover section.

Front-loading disk player

A front-loading disk player is provided which can pull either a bare disk or a disk mounted in a cartridge into a housing so as to perform an operation of reproducing information thereon. A first carrier unit is moveable from a carrier path of the cartridge disk in association with a carrier of the cartridge disk by a second carrier unit. A cover section has a second slot for only the bare disk therein. The first carrier unit includes a transfer unit for transferring the bare disk, and a holding unit provided on the transfer unit for holding the bare disk on the transfer unit.

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Tsurugashima, Japan

Shigekazu Wada