Kabushikikaisha Kenwood

Shoji Tomioka

Takafumi Suwa

Yosuke Haga

Takeharu Sasada

Tsutomu Imai

Teruaki Imai

Takahiro Asano

Hisanori Togawa

Yasushi Kuroda

A vehicle mount disc player having a small thickness by removing a wasteful space around a reproduction unit chassis when a disc is loaded or unloaded. The vehicle mount disc player has the reproduction unit chassis supported in a floating state by a main chassis via damper mechanisms. The reproduction unit chassis is locked so as to be shifted to a disc motor side along an axial direction of a disc motor and a turntable when the disc is loaded or unloaded.

Disc player mounted on vehicle

A transport mechanism for an optical disc cartridge capable of discharging an optical disc cartridge to a predetermined position by making a transport roller in pressure contact with the optical disc cartridge even if the cartridge is erroneously inserted. A guide arm is rotatively mounted which projects into an optical disc cartridge transport path between the transport roller and a disc insertion port. If the optical disc cartridge is inserted in a normal orientation, the guide arm is rotated by the optical disc cartridge to rotate the arm in the clockwise direction to allow the optical disc cartridge to be inserted, whereas if the optical disc cartridge is inserted in an orientation rotated by 90&deg; from the normal orientation, the transport roller is made in pressure contact with the side wall of the optical disc cartridge.

Transport mechanism for optical disc cartridge

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Sagamihara, Japan

Shoji Tomioka