Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Dynamic mechanism subsystem – Access of multiple storage elements
Patent
1994-03-01
1996-04-16
Levy, Stuart S.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Dynamic mechanism subsystem
Access of multiple storage elements
362 36, G11B 1722
Patent
active
055089941
ABSTRACT:
A disk player has a magazine for storing disks on carriages and a disk transport mechanism transporting a selected disk between four positions including an eject position, a load position, a playback position, and a store position which lie in a single plane. The selected disk is carried upon a carriage from the magazine to the load position where the selected disk is partially removed from the magazine to the playback position above a disk reader. An alignment mechanism provides relative movement between the magazine and a plane of transport of the disk transport mechanism permitting a selected disk to be inserted or removed from the magazine at the store position. The disk reader is positioned to read the selected disk while overlapping disks stored in the magazine resulting in a smaller disk player size. The magazine pivotally holds the carriages in a stacked arrangement with prongs engaging recesses in the carriages. The magazine also holds a carriage for accepting disks of two sizes. A separator mechanism pivots apart carriages in the magazine to allow sufficient clearance for removal and insertion of a selected carriage. The separator mechanism also has a stopping protrusion which serves as a keeper to hold a carriage below the selected carriage in the magazine during withdrawal of the selected carriage.
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Hisatomi Yuichiro
Nakamichi Niro N.
Catan Mark
Froebrich Alfred W.
Giordana Adriana
Levy Stuart S.
Morrison Thomas R.
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