Disc playback device

Details Disc playback device Disc playback device

1988-07-27

1992-08-25

Shoop, Jr., William M.

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

With particular cabinet structure

With mechanism to place disc on a turntable

369 772, 369271, 360 9906, G11B 3302

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051425238

ABSTRACT:
The disc playback device is capable of playing back a disc such as a Compact Disc housed in its disc case without handling the disc with hands. The disc playback device comprises a loading mechanism having rollers which abut against both surfaces of a disc case and have rotational axes in the direction perpendicular to the direction of insertion of the disc case so as to take a disc housed in the disc case in or out of a loading section, the disc case being opened or closed pivoting about the base portion thereof, a clamping mechanism equipped with clamping members for clamping the disc case by inserting or releasing the clamping members into or from holes formed on both sides of the disc case, an opening/closing mechanism which opens and closes the disc case by holding the disc case on the base portion thereof with the rollers of the loading mechanism and inclining the rotational axes, a pressing/releasing mechanism having a pressing member which can fix or release the disc by pressing a catch provided at the center of the disc case, the pressing member being provided on a moving member movable between the loading section and a playback section, a holding mechanism provided on the moving member which houses the disc in the disc case and takes it out from the case, and the playback mechanism provided in the playback section which plays back the disc which has been transferred by the holding mechanism.

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patent: 4866693 (1989-09-01), Odawara et al.
patent: 4926410 (1990-05-01), Suzuki et al.

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