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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yusuke Kurokawa, Tokyo, JP;
Akeshi Shitamichi, Tokyo, JP;
Eiji Shinohara, Kawasaki, JP;
Kunio Kido, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Tanashin Denki Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/704 ; G11B 3/302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/704 ; G11B 3/302 ;
Abstract
This invention provides a disc player in which a disc can be taken out readily and without possibility for the disc to fall out when unloading the disc. A Transfer apparatus pushes back a disc located in a playing portion up to a position, at which the center hole of the disc at least partly projects from a disc insertion slot. An elastic holding mechanism elastically holds a portion of the disc, having been pushed back, on the outer side of a recording area from the opposite sides of the disc, thus preventing the falling-out of the disc.