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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 1991
Filed:
May. 13, 1988
Akira Bessho, Tokorozawa, JP;
Youichi Konno, Tokorozawa, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus for playing a disc rotatably stored in a flat protective cartridge has guide pins slidably fitted in guide holes for guiding a holding member that holds the cartridge loaded in a housing toward a turntable. The cartridge can be transferred from a loading/unloading slot toward the turntable with high accuracy. With the arrangement in which the holding member is guided by the guide pins and the guide holes, the apparatus is small in size and the holding member is moved smoothly with a high accuracy thereby to perform smooth loading the cartridge-stored disc while keeping accurate alignment of the disc against the spindle of the turn-table.