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US 7,010,799 B2Granted
Recording and/or reproducing apparatus
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsRyosuke Anno, Kazuhito Kurita, Tokio Kanada, Mikinori Matsuda, Tadami Nakamura
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Abstract
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a holder for holding an inserted recording medium, a recording and/or reproducing section for performing recording on or reproduction from the recording medium, a chassis in which the recording and/or reproducing section is provided, and a loading mechanism for moving the holder and the chassis closer to each other when the recording medium is inserted in the holder.
Claims14
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus comprising:
- a holder disposed at a predetermined distance from an upper surface of a housing to hold an inserted recording medium;
- a recording and/or reproducing section configured to perform recording on or reproduction from the recording medium;
- a chassis which is disposed at a predetermined distance from a lower surface of the housing and in which the recording and/or reproducing section is provided;
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- a loading mechanism that moves the holder and the chassis closer to each other in a first direction by separating the holder from the upper surface of the housing and separating the chassis from the lower surface of the housing, a clearance between the upper surface and the holder faced with the upper surface is smaller than a clearance between the lower surface and the chassis faced with the lower surface, when the recording medium is inserted in the holder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.