Pioneer Electronic Corporation

Pioneer Electric Corporation

Tsutomu Miyakawa

Yuji Ikedo

Takahiro Okajima

Masahiko Miyake

Masahiro Takagi

Satoshi Sakurai

Tomoyoshi Arai

Yuji Morita

Tsuneo Shimura

Junji Yamane

Haruhiko Tanaka

A multi-disk player system including a housing, a playing mechanism provided within the housing, a magazine that is capable of accommodating a plurality of disks in an orderly manner and which is provided detachably with respect to the housing, a magazine loading detector for detecting the loading of said magazine within the housing, and a disk pickup and transport device that selects a desired disk from the magazine and transports the same to the play position. The magazine loading detector is comprised of a pair of push levers that are positioned in the deepest magazine loading area and are in engagement with the magazine, a pair of sensor switches capable of engaging with the push levers. The push levers are spaced apart from each other by the distance corresponding to the thick portion of the magazine. The system may include a disk container comprising a plurality of trays on which disks are to be placed, and the magazine for accommodating the trays. The magazine is provided with partitions that limit the vertical position of the trays. The height of the underside of each partition is set at a value equal to that of the top of the disk placed on the tray below each partition.

Multi-disk player system incorporating disk search and disk selection

A multi-disk player system comprising a housing, a playing mechanism provided within the housing, a magazine that is capable of accommodating a plurality of disks in an orderly manner and which is provided detachably with respect to the housing, a magazine loading detector for detecting the loading of said magazine within the housing, and a disk pickup and transport device that selects a desired disk from the magazine and transports the same to the play position. The magazine loading detector is comprised of a pair of push levers that are positioned in the deepest magazine loading area and are in engagement with the magazine, a pair of sensor switches capable of engaging with the push levers. The push levers are spaced apart from each other by the distance corresponding to the thick portion of the magazine. The system may include a disk container comprising a plurality of trays on which disks are to be placed, and the magazine for accommodating the trays. The magazine is provided with partitions that limit the vertical position of the trays. The height of the underside of each partition is set at a value equal to that of the top of the disk placed on the tray below each partition.

Multi-disk player system

A multidisk player comprising a housing, a playback mechanism, a magazine capable of containing a plurality of disks arranged in order, the magazine being detachably fitted in a predetermined magazine loader within the housing, a single adapter detachably fitted in the loader, the single adapter being capable of being loaded replaceably with one disk, disk carrier means for carrying the magazine and the disk in the single adapter to a playback position, and a drive unit for driving the magazine and the single adapter outwardly from the loader, the single adapter comprising a first member directly fitted in the loader, a second member for being loaded with the disk, the second member being movable within a fixed range relative to the first member and along the direction where said first member is fitted in the loader, and a drive unit for driving the second member. The first member is driven out of said loader when the second member is moved relative to the first member such that the sum of the quantity of the protrusion of the first member from the loader and that of the movement of the second member relative to the first member is slightly greater than the outer diameter of the disk.

Disk player

A multi-disk player system comprising a housing, a playing mechanism provided within the housing, a magazine that is capable of accommodating a plurality of disks in an orderly manner and which is provided detachably with respect to the housing, a magazine loading detector for detecting the loading of said magazine within the housing, and a disk pickup and transport device that selects a desired disk from the magazine and transports the same to the play position. The magazine loading detector is comprised of a pair of push levers that are positioned in the deepest magazine loading area and are in engagement with the magazine, a pair of sensor switches capable of engaging with the push levers. The push levers are spaced apart from each other by the distance corresponding to the thick portion of the magazine. The system may include a disk container comprising a plurality of trays on which disks are to be placed, and the magazine for accommodating the trays. The magazine is provided with partitions that limit the vertical position of the trays. The heights of the underside of each partition is set at a value equal to that of the top of the disk placed on the tray below each partition.

Disclosed is a disk holder adapted to be inserted and fitted into a loading means of a disk player. The disk holder supplys a disk to the disk player in response to the operation of the player. The disk holder includes a housing for holding a plurality of disks, a plurality of plate-shape trays each loading each of the disks on each principal face thereof. Each of the trays is provided ejectable from the retractable in the housing along the principal face. The disk holder further includes flexible members positioned confronting with each of the disk loading face and projecting from the principal face of neighboring tray.

An optical pickup system in which a tracking objective lens is moved by opposed magnetic coils attached to the lens along the axis of the lens and in the transverse direction across the recording tracks. A servo system on a fixed base supplies current to the movable coils by lead wires which are connected at the middle to a fixed vibration absorbing material, such as polyurethane foam.

Pickup system in optical information recording and reproducing apparatus

A disk player in which a clamping member clamps a disk against a turntable. The clamping member has two annular bosses and the turntable has one annular boss located between those of the clamping member. A projection of the clamping member has a projection that fits within a slightly larger recess in the turntable. A ball bearing in the projection moves towards the turntable and forces radially outwardly three ball bearings which then contact the side walls of the recess.

Disk player having a clamper aligned with a turntable

A front-loading record player comprises a slide base carrying thereon a turntable and movable back and forth with respect to a player cabinet; a driving cam including a front slant retainer section and a rear linear section, the linear section extending in parallel with the moving direction of said slide base and the driving cam being provided on said slide base; a guide cam including a front recess portion and a rear linear portion, the linear portion extending in parallel with the moving direction of the slide base and the guide cam being provided on the player cabinet; and a front door opening/closing drive member for opening and closing a front door of the player cabinet, the drive member being held between the driving cam and the guide cam. The front door opening/closing drive member and the front door are drivingly coupled to each other. The front door opening/closing drive member is driven back and forth and held between the front slant retainer section of the driving cam and the rear linear portion of the guide cam when the slide base is located behind a predetermined position whereas the front door opening/closing drive member is held at a standstill between the linear section of the driving cam and the recess portion of the said guide cam when the slide base is located in front of the predetermined position.

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Saitama, Japan

Tsutomu Miyakawa