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US 4,788,677 AGranted
Disk support mechanism in a player
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorsYuji Ikedo, Kenichi Takahashi
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Abstract
A support mechanism for a disk player in which a turntable is supported on a metal plate which is screwed to a resin plate. A carriage carrying an optical pickup and its drive are mounted on the resin plate between the two plates but the carriage is guided by the metal plate. The optical pickup tracks the disk through an opening in the metal plate.
Claims6
A disk player comprising:
- a support mechanism including a first plate-like support member with an opening in a main surface thereof;
- a turntable mounted on said first support member for bearing and rotating a disk on a disk carrying surface adjacent said opening;
- guiding means provided on said first support member and including a linear sliding member and holding means;
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- a carriage which carries optical pickup means including an objective lens for causing a spotlight to impinge onto a recording surface of a disk and which slides on said sliding member and is guided by said guiding means in a moving direction substantially parallel to said disk carrying surface of said turntable, said carriage being held against said first support member by said holding means on a first side of said carriage with respect to said linear sliding member so as to be guided by said guiding means, said objective lens being disposed on a second side of said carriage opposite said first side with respect to said linear sliding member and being disposed adjacent said opening of said first support member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.