Magazine holder in a CD player
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorsKaoru Takemasa, Atsushi Kurosawa, Sei Onishi, Kiyohito Kajihara, Osamu Kitazawa, Kiyoshi Morikawa
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Abstract
A CD player has a magazine containing a plurality of trays each of which mounts a CD, and a magazine holder. The magazine holder has an inlet for inserting the magazine. An upper and a lower edges of the inlet has an upwardly inclined guide portion and a downwardly inclined guide portion, respectively.
Claims2
A magazine holder in a CD player having a magazine containing a plurality of trays for mounting each of a plurality of CD's respectively, each of the trays being pivotally mounted on a shaft provided at a corner of a front side of the magazine so that each tray is rotated about an axis of said shaft and moved form the magazine holder to a playback position while passing through an opening formed on the front side and a lateral side adjacent the front side and opposite to said shaft, the magazine holder having an inlet for inserting the magazine, comprising:
- the magazine having upper and lower projections on a front side thereof at a position opposite to the shaft;
- an upwardly inclined guide portion and a first downwardly inclined guide portion formed on an upper edge and a lower edge of the inlet;
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- a second downwardly inclined guide portion formed on the lower edge of the inlet a position located inwardly of the first downwardly inclined guide portion and corresponding to a position of the lower projection of the magazine relative to the width of said inlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.