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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 02, 1996
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1993
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disc changer player comprises a disc loading unit into which there is loaded a disc accommodating magazine in which a plurality of discs are accommodated in a stacked condition, a translating chassis having a disc reproducing operation mechanism mounted thereon and translating in a stacking direction of the discs relative to the disc loading portion, a selecting operation member for selecting a desired disc by controlling a translation of the translating chassis, and an eject mechanism for ejecting the disc accommodating magazine from the disc loading unit, wherein the disc accommodating magazine is ejected by controlling operation of the eject mechanism by the selecting operation member. Further, the disc changer player comprises a pair of opposing chassis, a plurality of feed screw shafts supporting the pair of opposing chassis, and a gear member through which the translating chassis is translated by a rotation of the plurality of feed screw shafts, wherein the gear member that is meshed with at least one feed screw shaft engages the translating chassis so that the gear member can be meshed with the feed screw shaft and the movable gear member is translated in accordance with an operation of the disc reproducing operation mechanism so as to be strongly meshed with the feed screw shaft.