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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1997
Kiyoshi Morikawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Yoshihumi Nakayama, Saitama-ken, JP;
Jun Togashi, Saitama-ken, JP;
Hiroshi Akiyama, Saitama-ken, JP;
Nobuo Ishida, Saitama-ken, JP;
Tomomichi Kimura, Saitama-ken, JP;
Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Takashi Ota, Saitama-ken, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A casing of a device has a pair of vertical side walls, and a plurality of vertically arranged optical discs. Each side wall has a vertical guide slit. A disc player has two pins projected from opposite sides. Elevation plates are horizontally slidably mounted on the vertical side walls at outsides thereof. Each of the elevation plates has a V-shaped guide slit comprising an upper diagonal slit and a lower diagonal slit. Each pin is slidably engaged with vertical guide slit and with the V-shaped guide slit so that disc player is held at a vertical position. The elevation plates are driven in a horizontal direction which is changed to an opposite direction at a joint between the upper diagonal slit and the lower diagonal slit. Thus, each of the pins is moved along the vertical guide slit and the V-shaped guide slit, so that the disc player is carried to a position corresponding an optical disc.