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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
May. 28, 2013
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Yasue Chihara, Osaka, JP;
Takuto Yamazaki, Nara, JP;
Tatsuro Nishi, Osaka, JP;
Hirokuni Hagita, Osaka, JP;
Takahiro Sato, Osaka, JP;
Masanori Ohnishi, Osaka, JP;
Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A disc device supplies a disc to each of a plurality of disc drives. The disc device includes a carrier which retains a plurality of discs being stacked in such a stacked state, which separates one disc from the retained plurality of discs above a tray ejected from an arbitrary one of the disc drives, and which places the separated disc on the tray. The carrier includes a plurality of claw portions holding the inner circumferential portion of the bottommost disc out of the plurality of discs, and a disc press pressing the topmost disc out of the plurality of discs so as to be in parallel to the disc placing face of the tray.