Sony Corporation

Fukoku Co., Ltd.

Sony Optiarc Inc.

Yoshiteru Taka

Kazuyuki Takizawa

Tomohiro Watanabe

Toru Hama

Takayuki Ishibashi

Takeshi Koizumi

Tomoki Kawabata

Takuya Goto

Munetake Ebihara

Hiroto Kawaguchi

Hiroshi Mizuno

Akira Ebisui

Tomoko Katsuhara

Taizo Nishimura

Takashi Itaya

Kiyoaki Tsuji

Takushi Matsushita

Hisao Takahashi

Norio Iwabuchi

Keiichi Nakamura

Tatsuya Nakazawa

Kazuyuki Kumeda

Machiko Endo

Yukio Sakakibara

An input device includes a pressure-sensitive sensor including a first sensing unit and a second sensing unit, and a pressing unit that is disposed on the pressure-sensitive sensor and undergoes buckling deformation. A bottom of the pressing unit is disposed on the first sensing unit, and a top of the pressing unit is disposed on the second sensing unit.

Input device, operation device, and electronic apparatus

Provided are an input device and an electronic apparatus each including capacitive elements and being capable of allowing a plurality of information items to be separately input by simple operations. The input device includes: a capacitive element; a conductor that can be electrostatically coupled to the capacitive element; an operation portion that allows a load to be applied to the conductor; and a retaining portion that retains the conductor apart from the capacitive element. The retaining portion is capable of displacing the conductor with respect to the capacitive element in a stepwise manner in accordance with the load that is applied to the conductor through intermediation of the operation portion, and is capable of retaining the conductor at a plurality of positions with respect to the capacitive element.

Input device and electronic apparatus

An input device includes a casing having a recess in its inner surface, and a pressure-sensitive sensor disposed in the recess. The pressure-sensitive sensor is fixed in the recess so that a sensing surface of the pressure-sensitive sensor and a bottom surface of the recess are in contact with each other.

Input device and electrical apparatus

A disk drive device includes: a device body having a front surface that forms a disk insertion and ejection opening; a pair of arms supported at proximal end portions thereof pivotally from the front surface of the device body to a downstream side in a disk insertion direction; transport rollers respectively rotatably supported at distal ends of the arms and transporting the disk to an inside or outside of the device body by being brought into contact with a side surface of a disk; an urging member urging the arms so that the transport rollers supported respectively by the arms approach each other; and a transport roller rotation mechanism driving at least one of the transport rollers, supported respectively by the arms, for rotation, wherein the arms synchronously pivot the transport rollers in such a manner that the pivotally supported proximal end portions are coupled to each other.

Disk drive device and electronic apparatus

In an on-vehicle disc player having a disc elevator () for making a plurality of trays () each having a CD placed on it stacked one over another in the vertical direction move in the stacking direction, there is provided plate springs (e) for pressing an inserted CD at both sides of the tray (). Further, there is provided separating cams () for forming spaces at both side of the tray () having a CD to be reproduced, by the movement in the fore-and-aft direction. Holding means for holding and rotating the CD are inserted to the spaces formed by the separating cams () to hold the CD. Thereafter, by pushing down the plate springs (e) which has pushed and caught the CD in the tray () by means of peripheral portions (x) of lower faces of upper stage entering portions (j) of the separating cams (), the CD is released and the tray () is pushed down to be separated from the CD. This enables the reproduction at the same position as the supporting position, and thereby it becomes possible to make the apparatus small in size.

Recording and/or reproducing device for disks

An in-vehicle player which is mounted in a dashboard in a passenger room of a vehicle comprises: an outer housing to be assembled in a mount space provided in the dashboard; a device body contained in the outer housing; and a cushion member interposed between the outer housing and two side surfaces of the device body, wherein the cushion member is made of viscous elastic material, the cushion member has an end surface which is substantially parallel to a shearing direction thereof and stuck to a mount surface of the device body by viscosity thereof, and the cushion member has another end surface which is substantially parallel to the shearing direction and stuck to a mount surface of the outer housing by viscosity thereof, thereby to attach the cushion member to be elastically deformable in the shearing direction between the outer housing and the two side surfaces of the device body.

In-vehicle player

A disc recording and/or reproducing device includes a disc compartment that has a plurality of disc mounts placed one upon another, on which discs are mounted. The device also includes a recording and/or reproducing mechanism for selectively recording and/or reproducing a disc mounted on one of the plurality of disc mounts. An injection mechanism is included for ejecting the disc mounted on the disc mount. A control mechanism is included that moves along a line substantially perpendicular to the placing direction and is configured to start the recording and/or reproducing mechanism when in a first position and start the ejection mechanism when reaching a second position on another side of the line.

Disk recording and/or reproducing device with starting and ejection control means

A pair of pins is arranged on the left and right of each of a plurality of trays placed vertically movably so as to protrude laterally, whereas separating cams are arranged on both sides of the trays in a protrudable and withdrawable way. The separating cams are formed with four first separating control parts for moving upward the pins of the selected tray and the tray(s) thereabove, four second separating control parts for moving upward only the pins of the tray(s) above the selected tray , and four third separating control parts each for engaging with only a pair of pins of the selected tray . Movement of the separating cam forms spaces above and below the selected tray to hold a disc on the selected tray from above and below for reproduction on the spot.

In an on-vehicle disc player having a disc elevator ( ) for making a plurality of trays ( ) each having a CD placed on it stacked one over another in the vertical direction move in the stacking direction, there is provided plate springs ( ) for pressing an inserted CD at both sides of the tray ( ). Further, there is provided separating cams ( ) for forming spaces at both side of the tray ( ) having a CD to be reproduced, by the movement in the fore-and-aft direction. Holding means for holding and rotating the CD are inserted to the spaces formed by the separating cams ( ) to hold the CD. Thereafter, by pushing down the plate springs ( ) which has pushed and caught the CD in the tray ( ) by means of peripheral portions ( ) of lower faces of upper stage entering portions ( ) of the separating cams ( ), the CD is released and the tray ( ) is pushed down to be separated from the CD. This enables the reproduction at the same position as the supporting position, and thereby it becomes possible to make the apparatus small in size.

In place of a conventional tray, a pair of mounting stages is arranged as a disc holding device, wherein six pairs of mounting stages are vertically movably placed one upon another by arranging guide supports through guide holes of the pair of mounting stages for mounting a disc thereon. Spring bearings are arranged on the uppermost mounting stages , inside which received are the lower ends of coil springs enclosing spring guides arranged between a top plate and a bottom plate, achieving reduced size and weight of the disc holding device for mounting discs thereon.

Disc holding device and disc recording and/or reproducing device including disc mounting mechanisms and bias mechanisms for biasing a disc towards the mounting mechanisms

In an on-vehicle disc player having a disc elevator ( ) for making a plurality of disc carrying devices each having a CD placed on it stacked one over another, for example, in the vertical direction move in the stacking direction and a holding device ( ) for holding and rotationally driving a CD, the disc player is provided with an inner slider ( ) which moves in a direction (plane direction of a disc) perpendicular to the direction of stacking the disc carrying devices and makes the disc elevator ( ) and the holding device ( ) move in the stacking direction, a separating cam ( ) which separates the stacked disc carrying devices to form a specified space, and an outer slider ( ) which is coupled to the separating cam ( ) and moves in a plane direction of a disc is provided.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Yoshiteru Taka