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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1997
Yamaha Corporation, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Abstract
A movable guide for receiving a caddy is provided movably in the loading and unloading directions on a main chassis. The movable guide is moved by a drive mechanism from an eject position to a disk drive position. An arrangement is made so that by an action of front and rear guide pins engaged in front and rear cam slits of the main chassis, when the movable guide is at the eject position, a turntable of a traverse unit disposed below the main chassis is spaced by a predetermined distance from a disk and, as the movable guide is moved in the loading direction, approaches gradually to the disk and, when the movable guide reaches the disk drive position, the turntable is attracted to the disk. The turntable approaches the disk upwardly relatively from beneath the disk and is attracted smoothly to the disk by a series of continuous operation.