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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1988
Filed:
Aug. 08, 1986
Youichi Yamazaki, Saitama, JP;
Kimihiro Yoshitake, Saitama, JP;
Shogo Takeuchi, Saitama, JP;
Akira Takahashi, Saitama, JP;
Nobumitsu Tomita, Saitama, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A multi-disk player is disclosed which comprises a housing, a play-back means provided with a turntable and disposed in said housing, a magazine arranged to be demountably mounted in said housing at a predetermined mounting portion and for accommodating and arranging a plurality of disks one by one, a disk conveying mechanism for selecting desired ones of said disks in said magazine one by one, and for conveying the selected disks onto said disk carrying surface one by one from said magazine and conveying into said magazine one by one from said disk carrying surface, and a clamp mechanism for clamping the disk conveyed on said turntable. The clamp mechanism includes a pressing member arranged to come into contact with one surface of the disk mounted on the turntable at the other surface of the disk to perform a disk clamping operation in cooperation with the turntable, and a support arm arranged to be movable relative to the turntable between a clamping position and a non-clamping position and for rotatably supporting the pressing member. The supporting arm is movable along a plane parallel to the disk carrying surface.