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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1988
Keiji Uehara, Iruma, JP;
Teac Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A clamping mechanism for clamping a carriage of an information recording/reproducing apparatus recording and/or reproducing an information signal on and from a disk-shaped rotary recording medium accommodated in a cartridge comprises a clamping device provided movably on the body of the recording/reproducing apparatus between a clamped state in which the clamping device is engaged with the carriage so that the cartridge is fixed to the clamping device and a released state in which the clamping member is disengaged from the carriage so that the cartridge is free to move relative to the clamping device, and an actuation device provided movably on the body of the recording/reproducing apparatus between a first state and a second state such that the actuation device urges the clamping device to the clamped state when the actuation device is in the first state and the actuation device urges the clamping device to the released state when the actuation device is in the second state.