Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Dynamic mechanism subsystem – Specific detail of storage medium support or motion production
Patent
1987-03-02
1989-02-28
Levy, Stuart S.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Dynamic mechanism subsystem
Specific detail of storage medium support or motion production
369 752, G11B 2504
Patent
active
048092550
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention concerns a device for securing a compact disk to an upright player, with a means of mounting the disk and a means of preventing it from dropping out.
Upright compact-disk players are generally inexpensive embodiments without costly disk accommodations or compartments. The disks are forced against a turntable and accordingly centered by means of a pressure-application lever in this simple and economical design. When the user disengages the aforesaid mechanism in order to remove the disk, it can readily slide off center and drop out unless carefully handled. One reason for this is that the disk does not stop instantaneously subject to a stop pulse when the lever is disengaged. A falling compact disk can not only be damaged but can cause injuries.
To reliably secure the compact disk to the turntable, the pressure-application mechanism is usually provided with a permanent magnet that functions in conjunction with a soft-iron turntable.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The object of the invention is accordingly to design a device for securing the damage-sensitive compact disks to upright players and to prevent them from dropping out and falling while being loaded or replaced.
In accordance with the present invention, the forward edge of the centering component is beveled in accordance with the invention and provided with a groove in front of the rear centering diameter. The forward wall of the groove is steeply slanted, its rear wall shallowly slanted, and its base somewhat wider than the thickest available compact disk. This provides a practical means of easily and reliably inserting the disk and allows the pressure-application lever as it engages to employ its pressure-application mechanism to force the disk over the bevel and into the centering position with no risk of damage. When the lever is disengaged, the disk slides into the groove, whence it can be safely removed. The front of the improved centering component with its safety groove simultaneously functions as a means of centering the pressure-application lever or mechanism and can be designed to prevent damage to the disk.
One embodiment of the invention will now be described with reference to the drawing.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING
FIG. 1 is a side view of the disengaged pressure-application lever along with a sectional side view of the compact disk, centering component, and turntable; and
FIG. 2 is a sectional side view of the engaged pressure-application lever with the pressure-application mechanism in the playing position.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
The illustration by way of example in FIGS. 1 and 2 of a device for securing a compact disk is intentionally simplified and reduced to the components essential to the invention. FIG. 1 illustrates a pressure-application lever 4, which rotates around a point 6, in the stop-mode position. A compact disk 1 is suspended in a groove in a centering component 2. The disk rests on component 2, which is mounted on a shaft 8. The groove functions as a means of mounting a freshly inserted disk as well as a means of preventing it from falling while it is being changed. The base of the groove is wide enough, approximately 1.5 mm, to loosely accommodate the disk, which is about 1.2 mm thick. When the play mode is activated, a spring 7 pivots pressure-application lever 4 (as will be evident from FIG. 2) along with a pressure-application mechanism 5, which is inserted inside it in such a way that it can move therein, around a point 6 of rotation, forcing compact disk 1 out of the groove over its slanting rear wall and into the desired centered position on centering component 2. Pressure-application mechanism 5 consists of a permanent magnet. It operates in conjunction with a turntable 3 that is made out of a weakly magnetic material, reliably securing the disk. It turns out to be practical for the forward edge of centering component 2 to bevel approximately 45.degree. so that pressure-application mechanism 5 can readily slip over it. Since the rear wall o
REFERENCES:
patent: 4562566 (1985-12-01), Eisemann
Deutsche Thomson-Brandt GmbH
duBois Steven M.
Fogiel Max
Levy Stuart S.
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