Recording and/or reproducing device for disks

Abstract

In an on-vehicle disc player having a disc elevator (22) for making a plurality of trays (2) each having a CD placed on it stacked one over another in the vertical direction move in the stacking direction, there is provided plate springs (2e) for pressing an inserted CD at both sides of the tray (2). Further, there is provided separating cams (82) for forming spaces at both side of the tray (2) having a CD to be reproduced, by the movement in the fore-and-aft direction. Holding means for holding and rotating the CD are inserted to the spaces formed by the separating cams (82) to hold the CD. Thereafter, by pushing down the plate springs (2e) which has pushed and caught the CD in the tray (2) by means of peripheral portions (82x) of lower faces of upper stage entering portions (82j) of the separating cams (82), the CD is released and the tray (2) is pushed down to be separated from the CD. This enables the reproduction at the same position as the supporting position, and thereby it becomes possible to make the apparatus small in size.

Description

[0001]More than one reissue application has been filed for the reissue of U.S. Pat. No. 6,724,713. The reissue applications are present reissue continuation application and application Ser. No. 11 / 984,087 (Continuation reissue application), filed Nov. 13, 2007.<?insert-end id="INS-S-00001" ?>TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to a disc recording and / or reproducing apparatus for storing in it and recording and / or reproducing a plurality of discs.BACKGROUND ART[0003]As a disc recording and / or reproducing apparatus equipped on a vehicle for the purpose of playing a sound, there is a disc player. Such a disc player employs a method of storing a plurality of discs, for example, compact discs (hereinafter referred to as CDs) in a magazine and replacing a plurality of CDs in one magazine together at a time. Since it is made large-sized due to this arrangement, its main body portion is stored in a trunk, while only portions necessary for operation are installed in a pa...

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Benefits of technology

[0009]It is an object of the present invention to provide a disc recording and / or reproducing apparatus simplified in composition and made small in size.

Problems solved by technology

However, since CDs cannot be replaced when a vehicle is traveling, it is necessary to stop the vehicle and open the trunk for the replacement, and this is troublesome.

Therefore, it has been an important problem to make an on-vehicle disc player small-sized.

However, since the on-vehicle disc player must store in it a plurality of CDs and contain components related to control of the respective mechanisms for performing many operations such as insertion, ejection, reproducing (recording) and the like of a CD, it has been difficult to make the whole apparatus small-sized.

Therefore, there has been a problem that the apparatus becomes large by a dimension D for the clearance 400.

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