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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2005
Filed:
May. 08, 2003
Yuichi Kimikawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Nobutaka Kawakita, Saitama-ken, JP;
Takeshi Matsumoto, Saitama-ken, JP;
Katsunori Tamamura, Saitama-ken, JP;
Takao Yoshida, Saitama-ken, JP;
Yasuhiro Shinkai, Saitama-ken, JP;
Yuichi Kimikawa, Saitama-ken, JP;
Nobutaka Kawakita, Saitama-ken, JP;
Takeshi Matsumoto, Saitama-ken, JP;
Katsunori Tamamura, Saitama-ken, JP;
Takao Yoshida, Saitama-ken, JP;
Yasuhiro Shinkai, Saitama-ken, JP;
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
During an ejecting or unloading operation of an information recording medium by a conveying roller, if detection signals are output from detecting sensors indicating that the object being ejected or unloaded has already been discharged from an insertion hole although it has not, then the insertion hole is closed by the door. If, for some reasons, the door fails to close the insertion hole within a predetermined time, the conveying roller performs a forcible ejecting operation, whereby the object left inside is forcibly ejected to the outside. Thus, ejection or unloading of a medium is carried out without failure.