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US 4,734,814 AGranted
Plural disk cartridge arrangement
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsToyomi Fujino, Norio Hasegawa
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Abstract
In a disk cartridge for charging therein a plurality of disks so that the disks are stacked therein, slide tabs for removing a desired disk are slidably provided along disk discharge and charge directions, and click engaging portions for temporarily locking the slide tabs at a predetermined positions along a sliding direction are offset by a predetermined amount along the sliding direction between the stages so as not to be aligned vertically along disk storage stages, thereby reducing a load of a drive mechanism for aligning the slide tabs at the side of the apparatus body.
Claims5
A disk cartridge comprising:
- a disk cartridge body for charging therein a plurality of disks so that the disks are stacked by shelf-like partitions;
- biasing means, provided inside the disk cartridge body, for biasing the disk to be stored in a storage direction;
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- a plurality of slide members, each having a projecting portion projecting outwardly from a side surface of said disk cartridge body and a push portion for pushing the stored disk in a discharging direction, and slidably provided along discharge and storage directions of the stored disk, for discharging or charging the disk to be stored against a biasing force of said biasing means upon operation of said projecting portion,
- wherein click locking engaging portions each consisting of an engaging portion provided to either of said disk cartridge body or said slide member and an corresponding engaging portion provided to the other are formed at a position where said slide member is temporarily locked at the disk storage position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.