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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 07, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yoshihisa Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Nakamichi Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B / ; G11B / ; G11B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
369192 ; 369 752 ; 369 771 ;
Abstract
A disk transfer mechanism in a disk player is sloped upward toward the front of the disk player to align a disk transfer plane passing approximately through the center of a disk insertion opening. The slope of the disk transfer plane avoids interference between the disk playback mechanism and electronic components in the vicinity of the front or rear of the disk player. In addition, the slope of the disk transfer plane improves the clearances of a stocker, and thereby enables storage and playback of a maximum number of disks within a predetermined envelope.