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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2013
Kenji Tagami, Tokyo, JP;
Masashi Kubota, Tokyo, JP;
Hisaya Niizawa, Tokyo, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To develop optical discs stored while being stacked and to load them to a plurality of recording/reproducing devices simultaneously. Trays for mounting optical discs are stacked to configure an optical disc transportation body, and the portions being exposed without overlapping when the stacked trays are viewed from the stacking direction are utilized as tray operation portions for handling. Supporting portions abutting against the tray operation portions inherent to respective trays in one to one correspondence are fixed with an interval in the vertical direction to the frames configuring a tray distributing/holding portion. The tray operation portion of each tray is held by the supporting portion at each position by moving the optical disc transportation body downward along the frames, and intervals corresponding to the arrangement pitch of recording/reproducing devices are formed between respective trays.