Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack
Recording and/or reproducing apparatus including a cartridge loading device
 The invention provides an information recording/reproducing apparatus having a device for loading a cartridge internally holding an information recording medium, an opposing member directly facing the information recording medium at least in a recording mode, and a device for transferring the opposing member. When inserting the cartridge into the information recording/reproducing apparatus, the cartridge loading device transfers the cartridge at least in the direction of the thickness of the cartridge, and then the transfer device transfers the opposing member positioned outside an extended space in the direction of the thickness of the cartridge to a position at which the opposing member directly faces the information recording medium inside the extended space in the direction of the thickness of the cartridge. 
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
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G11B G11B
inventional inventional
Makoto Yoshikazu Satoshi
Fujita Gotoh Kikuya