Dynamic information storage or retrieval – Information location or remote operator actuated control – Selective addressing of storage medium
Patent
1986-03-07
1988-03-08
Stephan, Steven L.
Dynamic information storage or retrieval
Information location or remote operator actuated control
Selective addressing of storage medium
369 39, G11B 1728, G11B 548
Patent
active
047302917
ABSTRACT:
A multi-disk player system comprising a housing, a playing mechanism provided within the housing, a magazine that is capable of accommodating a plurality of disks in an orderly manner and which is provided detachably with respect to the housing, a magazine loading detector for detecting the loading of said magazine within the housing, and a disk pickup and transport device that selects a desired disk from the magazine and transports the same to the play position. The magazine loading detector is comprised of a pair of push levers that are positioned in the deepest magazine loading area and are in engagement with the magazine, a pair of sensor switches capable of engaging with the push levers. The push levers are spaced apart from each other by the distance corresponding to the thick portion of the magazine. The system may include a disk container comprising a plurality of trays on which disks are to be placed, and the magazine for accommodating the trays. The magazine is provided with partitions that limit the vertical position of the trays. The height of the underside of each partition is set at a value equal to that of the top of the disk placed on the tray below each partition.
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Now, The Compact Disc Jukebox, Sales brochure from Pioneer.
Ikedo Yuji
Miyakawa Tsutomu
Miyake Masahiko
Okajima Takahiro
Pioneer Electronic Corporation
Stephan Steven L.
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