Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Front-loading disk player with separate first and second carrier units
A front-loading disk player is provided which can pull either a bare disk or a disk mounted in a cartridge into a housing so as to perform an operation of reproducing information thereon. A first carrier unit is moveable from a carrier path of the cartridge disk in association with a carrier of the cartridge disk by a second carrier unit. A cover section has a second slot for only the bare disk therein. The first carrier unit includes a transfer unit for transferring the bare disk, and a holding unit provided on the transfer unit for holding the bare disk on the transfer unit.
Pioneer Corporation
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G11B G11B
inventional inventional
Kouichi Shigekazu Yasumitsu Tohru Hiroshi
Yaeguchi Wada Suzuki Kanegae Takemoto