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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 20, 1999
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus of a disc-shaped recording medium includes a main body portion, a shutter mechanism, a drive mechanism, an elevation mechanism and an eject mechanism. The main body portion has an opening portion through which a disc-shaped recording medium is inserted or ejected. The shutter mechanism opens and closes the opening portion. The shutter mechanism is provided on the main body portion to be freely movable and closes the opening portion under a state that the disc-shaped recording medium is completely inserted into the main body portion. The drive mechanism rotatably drivers the disc-shaped recording medium. The elevator mechanism is moved up and down in an interlocking manner with a movement of the shutter mechanism. The elevator mechanism mounts the recording medium on the drive mechanism when the shutter mechanism is moved to a position to close the opening portion, while makes the disc-shaped recording medium apart from the drive mechanism when the shutter mechanism is moved to a position to open said opening portion. The eject mechanism ejects the recording medium from the opening portion. The eject mechanism ejects the disc-shaped recording medium made apart from the drive mechanism by the elevator mechanism from the opening portion when the shutter mechanism is moved from the position to close the opening portion to the portion to open the opening portion.