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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2009
Atsushi Nishioka, Shiojiri, JP;
Koji Kawasaki, Suwa, JP;
Atsushi Nishioka, Shiojiri, JP;
Koji Kawasaki, Suwa, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A path mechanism and an information processing device having the path mechanism can guide disc media to a predetermined position without the data recording area of the disc being affected. The path mechanism has a stacker traythat forms a guide paththrough which media M having an annular data recording area can move by sliding. The stacker trayhas a pair of guide surfacesandthat support an outside circumference part of the media M slidably in the direction of media M travel. The guide surfacesandare formed to a width W that is less than the width A of the non-data-recording area Y rendered on the outside circumference side of the annular data recording area on the data recording surface of the media M.