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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 29, 1994
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A shock absorber for a disc recorder/player, the shock absorber including a rubber tubular member mounted between the recorder/player's driving unit and the recorder/player's casing and having at least a pair of wall sections and a hollow section, and a compression spring interposed within the hollow section, the wall sections being arrayed along a first axial direction corresponding to the direction of movement of the recorder/player, with the direction of movement of an object lens of an optical pickup being a second axial direction and a direction interconnecting the driving unit and the casing being a third axial direction, the hollow section being formed along the second axial direction and the compression spring being arrayed so that the direction of the longitudinal axis thereof is aligned with the third axial direction.