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US 6,388,980 B2Granted
Disc drive
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsHisao Otani, Akihiro Miyazaki
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Abstract
A disc transport member whose width for mounting of a disc is smaller than the diameter of the disc is inserted into and removed from a drive main body while being mounted with the disc. A disc protection member is provided, so as to face the disc, on an edge of the disc transport member or a region close thereto on a side where the disc that is mounted on the disc transport member projects.
Claims7
A disc drive comprising:
- a lead screw for moving a carriage having pickup means for performing recording and/or reproduction on a disc-shaped recording medium in a radial direction of the disc-shaped recording medium;
- a motor for driving the lead screw via a transmission mechanism;
- a one-piece unit base mounted with the motor and the transmission mechanism, for supporting a first end of the lead screw in a detachable manner;
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- a lead screw detachment member attached to the unit base in a detachable manner, for supporting a second end of the lead screw in a detachable manner.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.