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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 13, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369 4414 ; 369 47 ; 369 32 ;
Abstract
A disc player includes: a plurality of guide devices arranged radiately in radial directions of a disc from a rotary axis of the disc. Each of the guide devices includes two parallel shafts vertically arranged for supporting at least one pickup device in a manner slidable in the radial direction. The vertical positions of the parallel shafts of one of the guide devices are different from the vertical positions of the parallel shafts of the guide device neighboring to the one guide device so that the parallel shafts substantially vertically aligned at inner end portions of the shafts on the side of the rotary axis.