Sony Corporation

Shinji Nagasaka

Takeshi Suzuki

Yoshinori Shimizu

Nobuyuki Aoki

Takashi Tajiri

Shigeho Ogawa

Hiromasa Watanabe

Provided are: a turn table for storing a disk shaped recording medium Dn to be vertically placed; a disk drive unit disposed at the center part of the table, the disk drive unit mounting a recording medium Dn to record and/or reproduce an information signal SIN; disk carrying means for carrying the recording medium Dn between the disk drive unit and the turn table; and a control device, wherein the control device controls the turn table and disk carrying medium so as to detect whether or not the recording medium Dn is stored in the disk storage unit, judge an information recording face of the recording medium Dn removed from the disk storage unit, and based on the judgment result, mount the recording medium Dn intact on the disk drive unit or invert the recording medium Dn, thereby remounting the medium on the disk drive. In this manner, even in the case a recording medium is mounted to be oriented in opposite, a user can automatically mount the recording medium with its information recording face toward a disk drive unit without removing the recording medium from the unit.

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Chiba, Japan

Shinji Nagasaka