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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 1996
Filed:
Mar. 01, 1994
Yuichiro Hisatomi, Tokyo, JP;
Nakamichi Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disk player has a magazine for storing disks and a disk transport mechanism transporting a selected disk between four positions including an eject position, a load position, a playback position, and a store position which lie in a single plane. The selected disk is carried upon a tray from the eject position to the load position where the selected disk is partially removed from the tray to the playback position above a disk reader. The magazine accepts a plurality of disks. A magazine driving mechanism provides relative movement between the magazine and a plane of transport of the disk transport mechanism permitting a selected disk to be inserted or removed from the magazine at the store position. A disk clamping mechanism moves the disk reader relative to a clamp assembly in order to clamp the selected disk to a turntable. Both the disk clamping mechanism and the magazine driving mechanism are driven from a common drive source. An output of the common drive source is switched by the disk transport mechanism via a planetary gear assembly.