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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1999
Yoshihiro Seshime, Saitama-ken, JP;
Yuji Ikedo, Saitama-ken, JP;
Masashi Kurosawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Masamitsu Ohkawara, Saitama-ken, JP;
Yoshihiro Ichikawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Yuji Morita, Saitama-ken, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disk player has a disk cartridge for being loaded thereon, and accommodating a disk-type recording medium. The disk cartridge has a shutter arranged thereon, for performing slide-opening/closing in order to expose an information surface of the disk-type recording medium. The disk player is comprised of a carrier mechanism for carrying the disk cartridge to an information regenerating location and an information recording location, and a shutter sliding mechanism for slide-opening/closing the shutter. The shutter assumes an intermediate position of sliding when the disk cartridge is located at one of the information regenerating location and the information recording location, and assumes a terminal position of sliding when the shutter is located at the other one of the locations. The disk player also includes a. driving mechanism comprised of an engaging element and an engaged element which is separated from the engaging element when the information recording mechanism is not driven.