Disc player having an improved disc cartridge loading system
AssigneePioneer Electronic Corporation
InventorsMasamitsu Ohkawara, Yoshihiro Ichikawa, Yuji Morita, Yoshihiro Seshime, Masashi Kurosawa
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Abstract
A disk player has a structure capable of mounting on a turntable a disc-shaped recording medium contained within a cartridge. Such disc player comprises a cartridge transporting system capable of transporting the cartridge in a direction generally parallel to a sliding direction of a shutter of the cartridge; and a pivotable chassis on which the turntable is mounted, said chassis being pivotable by a chassis driving system so as to enable said disc-shaped recording medium to be mounted on the turntable, with its pivoting axis being generally parallel to a transporting direction for transporting the cartridge.
Claims10
A disc player having a structure which mounts on a turntable a disc-shaped recording medium contained within a cartridge, said disc player comprising:
- a cartridge transporting system which transports the cartridge in a direction generally parallel to a sliding direction of a shutter of the cartridge;
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- a pivotable chassis on which the turntable is mounted, said chassis being pivotable by a chassis driving system so as to enable said disc-shaped recording medium to be mounted on the turntable, with the pivoting axis of the chassis being generally parallel to a transporting direction for transporting the cartridge;
- wherein the cartridge transporting system and the pivotable chassis are all driven with the use of a single driving source;
- wherein the cartridge transporting system has a carrier which engages the cartridge and transports the cartridge in a predetermined manner;
- the chassis driving system has a driving member which engages the pivotable chassis so as to enable the pivotable chassis to pivot in a predetermined manner within the cartridge holder, wherein the carrier and the driving member are all engageable with a single gear driven by the single driving source.
A disc player having a structure which mounts on a turntable a disc-shaped recording medium contained within a cartridge, said disc player comprising:
- a cartridge transporting system which transports the cartridge in a direction generally parallel to a sliding direction of a shutter of the cartridge;
- and
- a pivotable chassis on which the turntable and an optical pickup are mounted, said chassis being pivotable by a chassis driving system so as to enable said disc-shaped recording medium to be mounted on the turntable, with its pivoting axis being generally parallel to a transporting direction for transporting the cartridge,
- wherein said pivoting axis is located on one side of the center line of the cartridge moving in its transportation direction and adjacent to the shutter of the cartridge.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.