Kabushikikaisha Kenwood

Sankyo Seiki Mfg. Co., Ltd

K.k. Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho

Teruaki Imai

Makoto Orii

Katsuhiko Hayashi

Takafumi Suwa

Shoji Tomioka

Takahiro Asano

Hisanori Togawa

Yasushi Kuroda

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

A governor is provided with a pulley comprising a casing, a pulley rotatably supported by the casing and a long member wound around the pulley. The pulley is rotated when the long member is pulled. A spring member is provided for urging the pulley in the direction in which the long member is wound up. A braking device is provided for braking the pulley when the long member is pulled. A long member winding up portion is formed in the pulley so that winding up diameters thereof change as the long member is being pulled out which, in turn, changes the operation of the braking device.

Governor with pulley

Herein disclosed is a continuous speed change type door check for closing a door, which comprises: a pivot pin made rotatable; a slider adapted to be linearly moved by the rotations of the pivot pin and to rotate the pivot pin when it returns; a coil spring for biasing the slider to return; a gear train for speeding up the rotations of the pivot pin; a brake connected to the gear train; and a one-way transmission clutch for operating the brake in a direction to close the door.

Mechanical door check

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Nagano, Japan

Teruaki Imai