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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 02, 1999
Yoshihiro Ichikawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Masamitsu Ohkawara, Saitama-ken, JP;
Pioneer Electronic Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disc player has a cartridge holder formed with an opening for loading a disc cartridge containing an optical disc through the opening. The disc cartridge has a slidingly opening shutter to expose an information recording surface of the optical disc contained in the cartridge, so as to permit information recording or reproducing. The disc player includes a disc cartridge loading system for transporting the disc cartridge in the same direction that the shutter moves on the disc cartridge. The disc player also includes a guide plate provided on the inner side of the opening within the disc player for guiding the disc cartridge when the disc cartridge is being transported into or out from the disc player through the opening. In particular, the guide plate has an inclined edge portion formed into a slope gradually inclined in an insertion and removal direction of the disc cartridge.