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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1997
Filed:
May. 10, 1996
Akihisa Inatani, Kanagawa, JP;
Shuichi Nagano, Kanagawa, JP;
Kanji Mita, Tokyo, JP;
Shuji Minami, Kanagawa, JP;
Haruyuki Tamura, Tokyo, JP;
Tsutomu Watanabe, Ibaragi, JP;
Akira Katsuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Masami Ishikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Taiji Noshitani, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for discs including a housing unit housing a large number of discs, a recording and/or reproducing unit on which one of the discs held within a large number of disc holders provided in the housing unit is selectively loaded and a transporting mechanism for transporting the disc held within a pre-set one of the holders of the housing unit to the recording and/or reproducing unit. In the course of transporting the disc, the disc transporting mechanism detects whether or not the disc is held in the holder. The housing unit include a plurality of the holders for radially holding the discs with the disc surfaces being erected upright. The disc held in the holder is transported by the transporting mechanism in the upstanding position as far as the disc reproducing unit and there loaded. The recording and/or reproducing apparatus for disc-shaped recording media has a group designating unit for designating the information of a desired one of the recording media housed within the housing unit and the air information recorded on such desired disc-shaped recording medium and grouping the designated information for classing the large number of the recording media into several groups.