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US 7,454,768 B2Granted
Disk carrying mechanism and disk player
AssigneePioneer Corporation
InventorsAkira Yasaki, Shigeru Kojima, Norio Matsuda, Hideki Kinoshita, Hitoshi Yamazaki, Jun Togashi, Yasuhiro Shinkai
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Abstract
Provided is a disk carrying mechanism, in which a guide member (32) is installed on a disk guide block (41) and the disk guide block (41) with the guide member (32) being disposed on an opposite side of a roller (31) with a carrying route therebetween. The guide member (32) is formed as a ridge extending in a direction orthogonal to a direction of a carrying route and inclined from a center part to a peripheral edge part of a disk so that its height can be increased.
Claims8
A disk carrying mechanism, comprising:
- a roller which carries a disk along a carrying route by coming into contact with a front surface or a back surface of the disk inserted from an outside;
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- disk guide blocks installed so that the disk guide blocks are movable in a direction crossing the carrying route, wherein
- the disk guide blocks have guide members which are arranged to oppose to the roller with the carrying route therebetween, and which come into contact with the disk being carried along the carrying route to maintain the disk in the carrying route, and
- the guide members are formed as ridges extending in a direction crossing the carrying route and inclined so that the ridges are increased in height from a central portion toward side portions of the carrying route.
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A disk player, comprising:
- a disk carrying mechanism including:
- a roller which carries a disk along a carrying route by coming into contact with a front surface or a back surface of the disk inserted from an outside:
- and disk guide blocks installed so that the disk guide blocks are movable in a direction crossing the carrying route, wherein
- the disk guide blocks have guide members which are arranged to oppose to the roller with the carrying route therebetween, and which come into contact with the disk being carried along the carrying route to maintain the disk in the carrying route, and
- the guide members are formed as ridges extending in a direction crossing the carrying route and inclined so that the ridges are increased in height from a central portion toward side portions of the carrying route.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.