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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1996
Filed:
May. 20, 1994
Canon Denshi Kabushiki Kaisha, Saitama, JP;
Abstract
A disc drive device includes a base, a rotary member rotatably supported on the base and a first chucking mechanism for holding a first kind of disc-shaped recording medium while coinciding a rotational center of the first kind of recording medium with a rotational center of the rotary member. The first chucking mechanism is arranged at one end of the rotary member. A second chucking mechanism holds a second kind of disc-shaped recording medium different from the first kind of recording medium with respect to size or disc formatting while coinciding a rotational center of the second kind of recording medium with a rotational center of the rotary member. The second chucking mechanism is arranged at the other end of the rotary member. A driving mechanism is mounted on the base for driving the rotary member.