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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2002
Akihiro Fukasawa, Kyoto, JP;
Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A main chassis supports a tray that carries a disk and slides between a disk-discharging position and a disk-loading position. A drive gear meshes with a first rack formed in the tray to move the tray between the disk-discharging position and disk-discharging position. The tray is in cam engagement with the cam slider such that when the tray reaches a position close to the disk-loading position, the tray causes a second rack formed in the cam slider to move into meshing engagement with the drive gear. When the cam slider is driven to move, a guide groove formed in the cam slider guides the disk-reproducing unit such that the disk-reproducing unit starts moving to the disk-reproducing position only after the cam slider is meshing engagement with the drive gear such that the pitch circle of the drive gear is tangent to the pitch line of the second rack.