Optical disc device
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKyoji Kasuga
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Abstract
An optical disc device is provided with a tray for mounting a disc or a cartridge thereon, a chassis that is laid out under the tray, and a top plate that is laid out above the tray. The optical disc device comprises two types of holding mechanisms that form either a single disc mounting space or a cartridge mounting space according to a shape of a single disc or a cartridge to be mounted in the tray, and hold the single disc or the cartridge in the respective mounting space.
Claims7
An optical disc device for recording and reproducing information on and from a single disc or a cartridge housing a disc, either of which is mounted on a mounting surface of a tray and loaded therewith into a body of the optical disc device, the optical disc device comprising:
- a holding mechanism that forms either a single disc mounting space or a cartridge mounting space according to a shape of a single disc or a cartridge to be mounted in the tray, and holds the single disc or the cartridge in the respective mounting space,
- wherein the holding mechanism can pivot around a predetermined supporting point in a direction of a face of the single disc or the cartridge to be mounted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.