System for recovering a CD in a CD player having a magazine containing a plurality of disks
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorsSei Onishi, Atsushi Kurosawa, Kiyoshi Morikawa, Kaoru Takemasa, Kiyohito Kajihara, Osamu Kitazawa
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Abstract
A CD player has a magazine containing a plurality of trays each of which mounts a CD, and a moving device for moving one of the CDs between the magazine and a playback position. The starting of the operation of the moving device for moving the CD from the playback position to the magazine is detected and a CD start signal is produced. When the CD does not arrive to the magazine after a predetermined time from the production of the CD start signal, the CD is returned to the the playback position and moved from the playback position to the magazine again.
Claims3
A system for recovering a CD in a CD player having a magazine containing a plurality of trays each of which mounts the CD, and a moving device for moving one of the trays between the magazine and a playback position, said moving device having a rotating member, and a link mechanism cooperating with the rotating member for moving the tray between the magazine and the playback position, comprising:
- actuating means provided on said rotating member;
- a switch operated by said actuating means,
- said actuating means actuating said switch to produce a first signal when said tray is located in said magazine and said switch also produces said first signal when said tray is at said playback position, and to produce a second signal when said rotating member starts to rotate to release the CD from a clamping position;
- control means responsive to said first and second signals for reversely rotating said rotating member for returning the tray to an initial position when a subsequent first signal is not supplied thereto after a predetermined time from the production of the second signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.