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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 1993
Filed:
May. 29, 1992
Sei Onishi, Saitama, JP;
Atsushi Kurosawa, Saitama, JP;
Kiyoshi Morikawa, Saitama, JP;
Kaoru Takemasa, Saitama, JP;
Kiyohito Kajihara, Saitama, JP;
Osamu Kitazawa, Saitama, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A CD player has a magazine containing a plurality of trays each of which mounts a CD, and a moving device for moving one of the CDs between the magazine and a playback position. The starting of the operation of the moving device for moving the CD from the playback position to the magazine is detected and a CD start signal is produced. When the CD does not arrive to the magazine after a predetermined time from the production of the CD start signal, the CD is returned to the the playback position and moved from the playback position to the magazine again.