Disk apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorGorou Naoki
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Abstract
Provided are a tray 2 for mounting a cartridge 101 that houses a disk and has an aperture for exposing an information layer and a shutter 101a for opening/closing the aperture, a conveyor for conveying the tray 2, an opener 13 having an engaging member and opening/closing the shutter 101a, and guiding members 14, 15, 16 arranged to engage with the opener 13 and interlocked with a conveyance operation of the tray 2 so that engagement position with an engaging member of the opener 13 changes, wherein the guiding members 14, 15, 16 are arranged opposing the face for mounting the cartridge 101. Thereby, there is no need for providing to the upper part of the cartridge 101 a system for opening/closing the shutter 101a, and thus a space below the tray 2 can be used effectively, resulting in downsizing of the apparatus.
Claims6
A disk apparatus comprising a tray for mounting a disk having an information layer and a position controller for controlling the position of the disk;
- the position controller comprising a wall face for controlling the position of the disk in a main face direction, a rotation member having a rotational axis arranged at a position indented from the main face of the tray and extending in a substantial radial direction of the disk mounted on the tray, a plurality of elements connected via the rotation member, and a biasing member for applying a force to the plural elements in a direction for floating the disk from the tray main face;
- the position controller further comprises an extending portion, the extending portion extends toward the center of the disk mounted on the tray main face with respect to the wall face, and the extending portion overlaps a part of the main face of the disk in a state in which the disk is in contact with the wall face.
A disk apparatus comprising a tray for mounting plural kinds of disks having information layers and different from each other in outer diameter, and a position controller for controlling the positions of the disks;
- the position controller comprising a first wall face for controlling the position of a first disk in a main face direction, a rotation member having a rotational axis arranged at a position indented from the main face of the tray and extending in the substantial radial direction of the first disk mounted on the tray, a plurality of elements connected via the rotation member, and a biasing member for applying a force to the plural elements in a direction for floating the first disk from the tray main face;
- the tray comprises a second wall face for controlling the position of a second disk in the main face direction, where the second disk is smaller than the first disk in the outer diameter;
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- the position controller extends toward the center of the second disk mounted on the tray main face with respect to the second wall face, and a part of the position controller and a part of the main face of the second disk overlap each other in a state in which the second disk is in contact with the second wall face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.