Sony Corporation

Sony Optiarc Inc.

Shunsuke Nirei

Hideharu Tajima

Minoru Shimizu

Taisuke Saeki

Tomio Yamamoto

Takatoshi Yukimasa

Naohiro Netsu

Nobuyuki Takamori

Akira Kurotsuka

Keiji Jitsukawa

Tomoyasu Takaoka

Hisashi Negoro

Mitsuru Iba

A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate.

Disc drive apparatus and electronic apparatus

Transparent disc cartridge

Disc cartridge

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Tokyo, Japan

Shunsuke Nirei