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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1993
Filed:
Feb. 12, 1992
Yuji Ikedo, Tokorozawa, JP;
Katsumi Sawada, Tokorozawa, JP;
Hitoshi Ueno, Tokorozawa, JP;
Yasuyuki Tashiro, Tokorozawa, JP;
Keiichi Takagi, Tokorozawa, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A front loading disc player for automatically delivering a disc onto a turntable and playing back the disc includes a disc delivery mechanism for delivering the disc. The disc delivery mechanisms has two trays for carrying respective discs, juxtaposed in a direction substantially normal to the disc carrying surface of the turntable and movable into a projected position out of the player housing and a retracted position in the player housing, and a guide and driver means for guiding and moving the trays into the playback position, the retracted position, and the projected position. While one of the trays is in the playback position, the other tray is positioned in either the stored position or the projected position. While the disc delivered by one of the trays onto the turntable is being played back, therefore, the disc on the other tray can be replaced with a new disc, so that a number of discs can successively be played back.