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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2001
Christian Hopf, Wetzlar, DE;
Norbert Kunze, Diez, DE;
Stefan Mueller, Wetzlar, DE;
Horst Rumpf, Herborn, DE;
Cornelius Wouters, Kuringen, BE;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to a device in a deck for playing information discs ( ), which preferably have been provided or can be provided with digital information, the information disc ( ) being rotated, in the operating condition, about its center by a drive motor ( ) and magnetically cooperating material parts ( ) being present, which are offset radially with respect to the axis of rotation ( ) and in the direction thereof parallel with respect to one another and of which one part ( ) is disposed on the base plate ( ) which carries the motor ( ) and of which the other part ( ) is disposed on the disc support ( ) which is moved by the motor shaft ( ), one of the material parts ( ) being a ring-shaped permanent magnet, at least one of the two magnetically cooperating material parts ( ) being arranged eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation ( ) and both material parts ( ) are ring-shaped, the directions of the lines of field not being changed during rotation.