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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2014
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Norikatsu Yoshida, Hyogo, JP;
Tatsuro Nish, Osaka, JP;
Hitoshi Higaki, Osaka, JP;
Yuji Ariyoshi, Osaka, JP;
Masanori Ohnishi, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A disc device according to the present disclosure includes a plurality of magazines each having a tray that stores a plurality of discs, a plurality of disc drives that performs recording or reproducing of information on or from a disc, respectively, a picker that draws out the magazine tray from one magazine selected from the plurality of magazines and that conveys the magazine tray to a position near the plurality of disc drives, and a disc separating and supplying device that, at the position near the disc drives, holds the plurality of discs stored in the magazine tray, that separates at least one disc from the held plurality of discs, and that supplies the separated disc to the disc drive.