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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
May. 01, 2012
Takeharu Takasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Naofumi Goto, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeharu Takasawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Takeshi Kubo, Kanagawa, JP;
Naofumi Goto, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Suzuki, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A disk transportation device includes a pair of rotation arms that are rotatable respectively about a fulcrum shaft extending in the same direction as the axial direction of a center shaft of a disk-shaped recording medium in both sides thereof that pinch the transportation passage of the disk-shaped recording medium transported between a disk changer and a disk drive device; and four transportation rollers of which two at a time are rotatably supported on the pair of rotation arms respectively, wherein the four transportation rollers contact the outer peripheral surface of the disk-shaped recording medium respectively and the pair of rotation arms are rotated in opposite directions to each other in a state where one of the transportation rollers at a time is supported at the pair of the rotation arms respectively contact the outer peripheral surface of the disk-shaped recording medium.