JPH06259866A - Disk reproducing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simplify the structure by moving the front ends of upper carriages in an approximately vertical direction to the moving direction of the carriages and inclining the upper carriages to a selected carriage with a carriage supporting means as a fulcrum. CONSTITUTION:The upper carriages 59 above the drawn carriage 59 are supported with their rear ends by a carriage guide 51 provided in a stocker. Then, the carriages 59 lifted by a carriage lifter 140 are inclined to the carrier 58 on the lowermost stage. Consequently, a front end part between the carriages closely provided in a laminated pattern is formed with a prescribed space, so that the carriages are efficiently prevented from abutting against each other due to wobbling of disk surfaces, etc. A stopper 141 is brought into contact with an engagement protrusion of the carriage 58 positioned below the drawn carriage 59, and this position is locked. By this method, reproduction is performed without drawing out all the carriages 59 mounting the disks to be reproduced from the stocker capable of housing seven carriages.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a disc reproducing apparatus having a changer function capable of selectively reproducing a plurality of discs, and particularly, at a disc storing position in the device, a desired disc is pulled out from a stocker and a stocker. The present invention relates to a disc reproducing apparatus having a mechanism for expanding the distance between discs when the discs are housed in a disc.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to reduce the size of a stocker for storing a plurality of disks, a disk reproducing apparatus having a stocker in which the upper and lower surfaces of a disk are closely contacted with the upper and lower surfaces of the adjacent carriages is known. JP 63
Reference is made to -293756. In this conventional example, when a selected one of the plurality of carriages is drawn out, a mechanism is provided which moves a carriage located above the drawn-out carriage and forms a required space between the drawn-out carriage and the drawn-out carriage. There is.

[0003]

However, in the conventional example in which the carriage located above the drawer carriage is horizontally moved, the convex portion provided on the drawer carriage is displaced from the concave portion of the upper carriage to move the carriage upward. Since it is moved, the carriage cannot be pulled out smoothly. Other horizontal movement mechanisms are also conceivable, but they have the drawback of complicating the structure.

[0004]

DISCLOSURE OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, the present invention provides a disc reproducing means which is movable relative to a disc at a reproducing position in order to reproduce the disc, and a disc on one side thereof. A plurality of carriages having a mounting portion for mounting the plurality of carriages, and a stocker for accommodating the plurality of carriages in a stacked state in close contact with each other without spacing so that the rotation axes of the disks mounted on the respective carriages are coaxial.
Carriage moving means for pulling out the carriage from the stocker with the front end of the carriage as a head so that the selected carriage among the plurality of carriages can be moved from the stocker to the reproduction position, and the carriage support for supporting the rear portion of the carriage. And a carriage interval forming means that abuts on the upper carriage that is in close contact with one surface of the selected carriage when the selected carriage moves from the stocker to the reproduction position.

The disc reproducing means in the present invention is
The playback position of the disc is set to a position where it overlaps with another disc stored in the stocker without pulling out all the discs from the stocker.

Further, in the carriage according to the present invention, a concave portion having a required depth is formed at the rear end of the other surface which faces one surface, and the carriage supporting means faces the concave portion when the carriage is stored in the stocker. A plurality of protrusions formed to be thinner than the depth of the recesses that can be inserted into the space formed between the carriage and one surface of the carriage.

[0007]

The front end of the upper carriage is moved in a direction substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the carriage so that a required space is formed between the front end of the carriage and the upper carriage with the carriage supporting means as a fulcrum for the selected carriage. Incline.

[0008]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the device of the present invention will be described below. In order to help the description of this embodiment, the schematic operation of the disc player to which the present invention is applied will be described below with reference to FIGS.
This will be described with reference to FIGS. 25 and 26. In FIG. 23, a stocker 50 capable of stacking and accommodating seven carriages on which discs are placed is located at the bottom, and a carriage 58 is a stocker 5.
The ejection position is shown in which the tray 20 is pulled out from 0 and stored in the tray 20, and the tray 20 is located outside the disc player.

The tray 20 is provided with two flanges 76, and when the carriage 58 is located inside the tray 20, the height of the mounting recess 162 of the carriage 58 is so as to make up for the notch 161 of the carriage 58. Is formed at the same level as and is formed so as to project. The end surface of the flange 76 is formed so as to be continuous with the outer peripheral end of the 8-cm disk mounting recess 166. Reference numeral 200 denotes an optical mechanism for reproducing a disc, which includes a turntable 202 and a pickup 203.

At the eject position shown in FIG. 23,
Since the notch 161 is formed large in the carriage on which the disc is placed, it becomes unstable when the disc is placed. However, since the flange 20 is formed on the tray 20 so as to be continuous with the mounting concave portion 76 of the carriage 58, the support of the disc at the eject position becomes more reliable.

The tray 20 is moved from the eject position shown in FIG. 23 to the roll shown in FIG. 24 by the tray moving mechanism described later.
It is moved to the dead position. After the 12 cm disk 201 is placed on the carriage 58 and the tray 20 is brought to the load position, the carriage 58 is moved from the position shown in FIG. 24 to the position shown in FIG. 25 by the shuttle 28 constituting a carriage moving mechanism described later. The tray 20 is pulled out to the reproduction position shown and moved to the right in the drawing. At this position, the optical mechanism 200 reproduces the disc 201.

At this reproducing position, the disk 201 housed in the stocker 50 and the disk 201 reproduced by the optical mechanism 200 are planarly overlapped to reduce the size of the player. Have contributed. The position where the pickup 203, which constitutes the optical mechanism 200, moves in the radial direction of the disc 201 and moves to the outermost position is indicated by a dotted line. Note that the flange 76 and the carriage 58 are separated from each other at this reproduction position.

When the disk 201 is to be stored in the stocker 50, the carriage 58 moves the carriage 58 further to the right in the figure and brings it to the stock position shown in FIG. The stocker 50 is movable in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the drawing, and after moving to a position corresponding to the selected desired disk 201, the carriage 28 moves the stocker 50 onto the stocker 50 by the carriage moving mechanism. And is moved to the reproduction position shown in FIG.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 25, the disc 201 and the stocker 50 at the reproducing position are arranged.
The optical mechanism 200 must be placed in a non-overlapping position because the discs stored in the optical disc are placed in an overlapping manner. Therefore, in this embodiment, the pickup 203 is arranged so as to move in parallel with the moving direction of the tray 20 with the turntable 202 as the center and in the direction opposite to the overwrap portion.

However, as shown by the dotted line in FIG. 25, when the pickup 203 moves to the outermost peripheral position of the disc 201, a part of the pickup 203 is located outside the range occupied by the disc 201. Therefore, when the pickup 203 is configured to move in this direction, it is necessary to increase the distance from the end of the accommodated disc to the front end of the tray 20, and the protrusion amount when the tray 20 is ejected becomes large. It has the drawback.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, the tray 2 is used.
From the 0 load position, further mount the carriage 58 on the tray.
The position moved in the play direction is the playback position. Thereby, the length of the front portion of the tray 20 can be shortened.

5 to 16 which are developed views of respective parts in the disk player to which the device of the present invention is applied.
The configuration of each part will be described below.

<Chassis> As shown in FIG. 5, the main chassis 10 includes a right side chassis 82 and a left side chassis 84.
Is attached. The top chassis 30 is attached to the main chassis 10 and the side chassis 82, 84, and the chassis 10, 30, 82, 84 form a box-shaped chassis. Further, a bottom chassis 11 is attached to the lower surface of the main chassis 10. Top chassis 3
0 is provided with a well-known clamper mechanism 190 for holding a disc between it and a turntable of an optical mechanism 200 which will be described later, and this clamper mechanism is shown in FIG.

<< Supporting Mechanism of Optical Mechanism >> Turntable
The supporting mechanism of the optical mechanism 200 including the pickup 203 including the bull 202, the laser and the objective lens will be described with reference to FIG. Optical mechanism 200
Is fixed to a mechanical base 182, and a total of four mechanical bases 182 are provided at each end, and a rubber which will be described later functions as a damper for preventing unnecessary vibration from being transmitted to the optical mechanism 200. A damper base 180 provided before and after the optical mechanism 200 via a ring 183.
Is attached to.

Base brackets 187 are attached to the left and right ends of the damper base 180 on the front side, and base pins 188 are attached to the base brackets 187. The base pin 188 is pivotally supported by a U-shaped mechanical base arm 181 mounted on the main chassis 10. Therefore, the optical mechanism 200 is rotatably supported with the base pin 188 as a fulcrum. Also, the damper base 1 on the rear side
A pin 186 is provided at 80 and is connected to a movement mechanism of an optical mechanism described later.

<< Damper Mechanism of Optical Mechanism >> The front and rear damper bases 180 are integrated by four mechanical shafts 184. Here, the damper mechanism on the rear side will be described with reference to FIG. A circular opening 194 is formed in the damper base 180, and the opening end 171 projects to the mechanical base 182 side,
It is bent and formed. The central hole of the rubber ring 183 is fixed by the head of a screw 185 screwed to the mechanical base 182. The outer circumference of the rubber ring 183 is
The damper base 180 is fitted into the bent portion of the open end 171. Therefore, as shown, the rubber ring 1
83 is forcibly formed into a conical shape, and functions as a suspension for the optical mechanism 200 mounted on the mechanical base 182.

<Carriage> The CD player of the present embodiment can accommodate seven discs therein, and mounts each disc to move the stock position, the reproduction position, the load position and the eject position. Of the 7 carriages that move,
The carriage 58 accommodated in the lowermost stage of the stocker 50 will be described with reference to FIG. 9 showing its plan view and right side view and FIG. 10 showing its perspective view. A circular notch 160 is formed in the center of the outer shape of the carriage 58, and a fan-shaped notch 161 is formed continuously with the notch 160 at an angle of about 90 degrees. ing. Further, on the upper surface of the carriage 58, a mounting recess 162 which serves as a guide when mounting a 12 cm disc, and a second mounting which is formed in the mounting recess 162 and serves as a guide when mounting an 8 cm disc A recess 166 is formed. Further, in order to form the mounting concave portion 166, the bulging portion 168 is formed on the lower surface of the carriage 58 corresponding to the mounting concave portion 166.

Further, a notch portion 163 is provided on the side end surface of the carriage 58, with which a shuttle 28, which will be described later, for driving the carriage 58 is engaged. Further, the carriage spring 54 is locked on the side end surface where the cutout portion 163 is formed so as to prevent unnecessary movement within the stocker 50 when the carriage 58 is stacked and stored in a stocker 50 in a close state described later. Is formed with a cutout portion 164. Further, on this side end surface, an engaging protrusion 167 having a triangular cross section is formed, with which a carriage lifter 140, which will be described later, for engaging with the front end of the carriage 58 is engaged. At the rear end of the back surface of the carriage 58, two recesses 165 are formed so that the thickness of the carriage 59 is partially reduced.

The carriage 58 has guide protrusions 55 formed on both sides of the upper surface of the carriage 58 and guide recesses (not shown) formed on the lower side of the carriage 58.
Is formed in the moving direction of the carriage and functions as a guide when the carriage is pulled out from the state where the carriage is stacked on the stocker 50.

The carriage 59 accommodated in the sixth stage from the top of the stocker 50 has first to sixth outer shapes.
Although it is almost the same as the carriage 59, the mounting recess 162 only is formed so that only a 12 cm disk can be mounted. Along with this, a protrusion on the lower surface corresponding to the 8 cm disk mounting recess formed on the carriage 58 is not formed.

<Stocker> A stocker capable of accommodating a total of seven sheets, with the carriage 58 at the bottom and the carriage 59 at the sixth from the top, will be described below with reference to FIG. The stocker 50, which is movable by an up-and-down moving mechanism described later, includes a carriage 58 that is stacked and stored on the stocker 50.
Two stocker guides 53 that support the bottom surface side of the lowermost carriage 58 of the 59 are attached to each side end of the bottom plate. Further, two comb-shaped carriage guides 51 are attached to the respective side end portions of the stocker 50 at the inner portion thereof.

The comb-shaped protruding portion formed on the carriage guide 51 is configured to be loosely fitted in the space defined by the recess 165 when the carriages 58 and 59 are stacked. A carriage spring 54 integrally formed with seven leaf springs is attached to the side surface of the stocker 50. The tip end of each leaf spring engages with the notch 164 formed in the carriages 58 and 59. The carriages 58 and 59 to hold them in the stocker 50.

An upper shaft 83 and a lower shaft 88 are provided on each side surface of the stocker 50.
The lower shaft 88 is inserted into the stepped cam groove 15 formed in the stocker cam plate 14 shown in FIG. The stocker cam plates 14 are attached to both side surfaces of the cam base chassis 13, and the long holes 18 formed in the cam base chassis 13 are connected to the cam guide pins 12 set up in the bottom chassis 11 shown in FIG. It is inserted and supported for parallel movement. A rack 17 is formed on the cam base chassis 13 and is meshed with a gear 115 of a moving mechanism for driving the cam base chassis 13, which will be described later.

Cam groove 15 of stocker cam plate 14
The lower shaft 88 penetrating through is inserted into the long holes 70 formed in the left and right side chassis 82 and 84 shown in FIGS. 5 and 15, and the upper shaft 83 is also inserted into the long holes 71 formed in the left and right side chassis. By being inserted, the stocker 50 can move up and down in parallel with the left and right side chassis 82, 84. Therefore, when the cam base chassis 13 moves along the elongated hole 18 by the moving mechanism described later, the cam groove 15 of the stocker cam plate 14 is moved.
The stocker 50 moves up and down by the action of.

<< Tray >> The above-mentioned carriage 5 is provided therein.
A tray 20 for accommodating any one of Nos. 8 and 59, which can be moved between an eject position protruding to the outside of the player and a loading position located in the player will be described below with reference to FIG. explain. Tray 20 is Tray Top Plate 2
The left tray plate 35 and the right tray plate are provided on both side edges of
It is configured by attaching the boot 34. A tray bridge plate 33 having a U-shaped cross section is attached so as to connect the left and right tray plates 34 and 35 to each other.

Guide rails 37 are formed on the left and right tray plates 34 and 35, respectively, in the tray moving direction. A rack 38 is formed on the lower surface of the guide rail 37 of the right tray plate 34 and meshes with the gear 29 of the tray moving mechanism. Reference numeral 60 denotes a shuttle lock lever 60 for locking a shuttle 28, which will be described later, for moving the carriage so that the carriage housed inside does not move with respect to the tray, and is pivotally supported 77 on the right tray plate 34. ing. Carriage rails 78 are formed on the left and right tray plates 34 and 35, respectively, to support the lower end of the carriage 58 or 59 inserted into the tray 20.

As shown in FIG. 15, the left side chassis 84
Is attached to an L-shaped first tray guide plate 41, and an L-shaped second tray guide plate 48 is attached to the first tray guide plate 41. . Here, the first and second tray guide plates
The guide rail 37 formed on the left tray plate 35 is inserted into the U-shaped groove formed by the ports 41 and 48. Similarly, the right side chassis 8 shown in FIG.
The first and second tray guide plates 40 and 46 are attached to the tray 2, and the tray guide plate 4
The right tray plate is placed in the guide groove formed by 0 and 46.
A guide rail 37 formed on the support 34 is inserted. Therefore, the tray 20 can be moved linearly.

<< Tray / Carriage Moving Mechanism >> Next, a moving mechanism for moving the tray 20 and the carriages 58 and 59 will be described with reference to FIG. A pulley 27 is fixed to the rotary shaft of a motor 230 that is attached to the right side chassis 82 and is a drive source that drives the tray 20 and the carriage 58 or 59. The pulley 27 holds the rubber belt 31. The reduction gear 26 pivotally supported by the right side chassis 82 is rotated via the shaft. The reduction gear 26 meshes with a gear 29, and the gear 29 meshes with a rack 38 formed on the right tray plate 34.

A gear 39 having a small diameter is integrally formed with the gear 29, and the gear 39 has a right side chassis 82.
It is located on the back side through the hole 95 formed in the.
The gear 39 meshes with a change gear 42 described later.

The gear 29 drives the shuttle gear 23 pivotally supported by the right side chassis 82 via the reversing gear 25.
The shuttle gear 23 moves the shuttle 28 by being meshed with a rack formed on the shuttle 28. The shuttle 28 is sandwiched between shuttle guide plates 22 and 24 attached to the right side chassis 82, and a protrusion formed on the shuttle guide plate 22 fits into a guide groove of the shuttle 28, whereby the shuttle 28 Is being guided. An arm 69 is formed on the shuttle 28 and engages with the notch 163 formed on one of the carriages 58 and 59 described above to move the engaged carriage.

The shuttle gear 23 is provided with a cam groove 52, and the pin 151 provided on the tray stopper 150 is engaged with the cam groove 52. Tray stopper 1
The elongated hole 152 formed in the shaft 50 is loosely fitted to the shaft 130 of the shuttle gear 23 that is planted in the side chassis 82. A projection 57 is provided at the tip of the tray stopper 150 so that it can be engaged with a recess 65 provided in the right tray plate 34 shown in FIG. The pin 151 of the tray stopper 150 is formed on the first tray guide plate 40 and is inserted into a guide groove 49 having a bent portion at a right angle in the middle.

The right side chassis 82 has a carriage stopper 8 arranged so that a slot is formed in the middle thereof.
6, 87 are provided so that the carriages other than the carriage pulled out by the shuttle 28 do not move.
It is formed in the carriage shown in FIG. 9 and is inserted into a notch 163 that engages with the shuttle 28.

<< Carriage Interval Forming Mechanism >> In the present embodiment, the carriages are housed on the stocker 50 in a stacked state in which the carriages are closely attached to each other. In other words, the upper surface of the carriage is in contact with the lower surface of the upper carriage. Therefore, in order to smoothly move the carriage when pulling out any carriage from the stocker 50 and when returning any carriage onto the stocker 50, a carriage opening mechanism for moving the carriage above the carriage to be moved upward The configuration will be described below with reference to FIG.

A cam groove 72 is formed in a change gear 42 which is driven by a gear 39 having a small diameter and which is provided integrally with a gear 29 which is rotationally driven by a motor 230. -A pin 45 attached to the port 43 is fitted. Change plate 43
Slotted holes 80 and 81 are formed in the hole, and the pins 80 and 81 attached to the right side chassis 82 are loosely inserted so that they can slide with respect to the right side chassis 82.

The change plate 43 is provided with a carriage lifter 140 having a substantially circular cross section and a stopper 141 having a slanted front end. One of the carriages which the carriage lifter 140 tries to pull out. The carriage contacts the lower inclined surface of the triangular protrusion 167 of the upper carriage, and moves the contacted carriage upward. The stopper 141 comes into contact with the protrusion 167 of the carriage one sheet below the carriage to be pulled out when the carriage lifter 140 comes into contact with the protrusion 167 of the carriage and moves the carriage upward, except for the carriage other than the carriage to be pulled out. The carriage is fixed so that it does not move.

<< Optical Mechanism and Stocker Movement Mechanism >> In this embodiment, one motor is used as both the optical mechanism 200 and the drive source for the stocker 50.
This is because the optical mechanism 200 moves and the disk 20 moves.
This can be achieved because the operation of clamping 1 and the operation of moving the stocker 50 to select the required disk are not performed at the same time, and the configuration will be described below with reference to FIG.

A pulley 92 is fixed to a rotary shaft of a motor 231 serving as a drive source fixed to the bottom chassis 11, and drives the worm gear 111 via a rubber belt 32. The worm gear 111 is a well-known planetary gear mechanism 100 including a sun gear, an orbital gear, etc. via a reduction gear 112.
Of the input gear 116.

Here, the planetary gear mechanism 110 includes first and second output gears 117 and 119. When the rotation of the first output gear 117 is blocked, the second output gear 119 rotates. When the rotation of the second output gear 119 is blocked, the first output gear 117 rotates.

The first output gear 117 is meshed with the rack 17 formed on the cam base chassis 13 through the reduction gear 115, so that the stocker cam plate 1 is formed.
Move 5 Therefore, the stocker 50 can be moved up and down so as to select a desired disk.

The second output gear 119 is the reduction gear 11
It meshes with the cam gear 110 through the gear No. 4. Cam gear 110
A cam groove 101 is formed in the cam groove 101.
The pin 186 provided on the rear damper base 180 shown in FIG. Therefore, the rotation of the cam gear 110 causes the optical mechanism 200 to move to the base spin 1
Rotate with 88 as a fulcrum.

In order to select the output of the planetary gear mechanism 100,
Change arm 4 pivotally attached to the bottom chassis 11
4 are provided. This change arm 44 has a first
To third arms 61 to 63 are provided, and the first to third arms 61 to 63 are provided.
The arm 61 is pivotally supported by the change plate 43 to rotate the change arm 44 in response to the movement of the change plate 43. Further, the second arm 62 has a rubber as a friction member attached to the tip thereof, and this rubber is the first output gear of the planetary gear mechanism 100 as the change arm 44 rotates counterclockwise. It is pressed against a reduction gear 115 meshing with 117. In this case, the motor 23
The rotational force of 1 is transmitted to the second output gear 119 to rotate the optical mechanism 200.

A rubber is attached to the tip of the third arm 63, and this rubber is pressed against the second output gear 119 of the planetary gear mechanism 100 as the change arm 44 rotates clockwise. To be done. In this case, the rotational force of the motor 231 is transmitted to the first output gear 117 and moves the stocker 50 up and down.

The operation of the above structure will be described below with reference to FIGS. 17 to 22. The operation will be described below in correspondence with FIGS. 1 to 4 which are schematic operation diagrams described at the beginning of the present embodiment. Organize the diagram. Eject position (Fig. 1) ... Fig. 17, Fig. 21, Fig. 25 Load position (Fig. 2) ... Fig. 18, Fig. 22, Fig. 26 Playback position (Fig. 3) ... Fig. 19, Fig. 23, 27, 33, 34, 35, 38, 37, 39 Stock position (FIG. 4) ... FIG. 20, FIG. 24, FIG. 28, FIG. 29, FIG. 30, FIG. 31, FIG. 32, FIG. 38

<< Operation of Tray Moving Mechanism >> The operation of the tray moving mechanism will be described below with reference to FIGS. In FIG. 17, the tray 20 accommodating the carriage 58 on which the disc is placed is in the eject position protruding outside the apparatus, and in this state, the end of the rack 38 provided on the right tray plate 34 constituting the tray 20. The part and the gear 29 are meshed with each other. Here, when the motor 230 rotates counterclockwise in the figure, the gear 29 rotates clockwise through the belt 31 and the reduction gear 26 to move the tray 20 to the right in the figure, which is the load position direction. To move.

When the tray 20 is brought to the load position shown in FIG. 18, the gear 29 is located at the left end portion 64 of the rack 38, and the movement of the tray 20 causes the gear 29 and the rack 3 to move.
The connection with 8 is automatically disconnected. The left end 64
Is formed so that the height of the tooth portion gradually decreases. However, in this position, the gear 29 and the rack 3
8 is only a short distance away from each other, and when the tray 20 moves due to vibration or the like, the gear 29 and the rack 38 come into contact with each other. In order to prevent this, the protrusion 57 formed at the tip of the tray stopper 150 engages with the recess 65 of the right tray plate 34, and the right tray plate 34 is further moved in the right direction in the drawing. The gear 29 and the rack 38 are configured to be reliably separated from each other, and the operation will be described below.

Cam groove 52 formed in shuttle gear 23
The first and second changing portions 66 and 67 whose diameter changes with respect to the rotation direction of the shuttle gear 23 are formed in the. When the shuttle gear 23 rotates clockwise from the position shown in FIG. 17, the pin 151 of the tray stopper 150 is first positioned at the first changing portion 66, and acts to separate the pin 151 from the shaft 130 of the shuttle gear 23. At this time, the tray stopper 150 moves the tray guide plate 40.
5 up to the right-angled bent portion of the guide groove 49 formed on the
7, the protrusion 57 is moved so as to approach the right tray plate 34.

When the shuttle gear 23 continues to rotate clockwise, the pin 151 is positioned at the second changing portion 67 of the cam groove 52. At this time, the cam portion 67 acts to further separate the pin 151 from the shaft 130 of the shuttle gear 23, but the action of the guide groove 49 causes the projection portion 57 to move to the right in the figure while moving the right tray plate. Close to 34. The tray stopper 150 is moving at the load position of the tray 20 shown in FIG.
Has been inserted into the concave portion 65, but has not yet given its driving force to the right tray plate 34.

Since the motor 230 is also used as a drive source of the shuttle 28 that moves the carriage 58, the carriage 58 that is still in the tray 20 even after the tray 20 is brought to the load position is used. It is continuously rotated to move to the playback position. With this rotation, the shuttle gear 23 further rotates in the clockwise direction, and the protrusion 57 of the tray stopper 150 engages with the recess 65 of the right tray plate 34. As a result, the right tray plate 34 is moved to the right from the position shown in FIG. 18, and brought to the reproduction position shown in FIG. 19 where the gear 29 and the rack 38 are surely disengaged from each other.

Even if the shuttle gear 23 continues to rotate to move the carriage from the reproduction position to the stock position, the pin 151 does not move due to the concentric circle portion of the cam groove 52. Therefore, the tray stopper 150 does not change from the position of the stock position shown in FIG. 20 to the position of the reproduction position shown in FIG. 19, and the tray stopper 150 is located between the reproduction position shown in FIG. 19 and the stock position shown in FIG.
Acts as a locking mechanism to lock the.

In this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, since the disc 201 at the reproducing position and the discs stored in the stocker 50 are arranged in an overlapping manner, the optical mechanism 200 is overlaid. It must be placed in a non-burlap position. Therefore, in this embodiment, the pickup 203 is arranged so as to move in parallel with the moving direction of the tray 20.

However, as shown by the dotted line in FIG.
When the pickup 203 moves to the outermost position of the disc 201, a part of the pickup 203 moves to the disc 2
It is located outside the range occupied by 01. Therefore, when the pickup 203 is configured to move in this direction, it is necessary to increase the distance from the end of the accommodated disc to the front end of the tray 20, and the protrusion amount when the tray 20 is ejected becomes large. It has the drawback.

On the other hand, in this embodiment, the tray 2 is used.
From the 0 load position, further mount the carriage 58 on the tray.
The position moved in the play direction is the playback position. Thereby, the length of the front portion of the tray 20 can be shortened.

<< Operation of Carriage Moving Mechanism >> Shuttle 2
8 is a notch portion 16 formed on the side surface of the carriage 58.
The carriage 58, which is engaged with the tray 3 and brought from the eject position to the load position by the tray 20, is moved from the tray 20 to the reproducing position, and the carriage 58 is located in the stocker 50 from the reproducing position. The carriage 58 is driven to between the stock positions,
This will be described with reference to FIGS. 21, 22, 23 and 24.

The motor 230 which is the drive source of the shuttle 28
Is also used as a drive source for the tray 20. As shown in FIG. 21, when the tray 20 is in the eject position, the rack 58 of the shuttle 28 does not mesh with the shuttle gear 23. Further, in this eject position, the tray 20
A shuttle lock 60 pivotally supported on the tray locks the shuttle 28, and the tray 20 and the shuttle 28 are integrated.

As shown in FIG. 22, when the tray 20 is brought to the load position, the rack 68 of the shuttle 28 is shown.
Meshes with shuttle gear 23. At this position, the shuttle lock 60 is rotated by a mechanism (not shown) to be in the disengaged state with the shuttle 28, and the shuttle 28 is movable from the tray 20.

Since the carriage 58 housed in the tray 20 is brought to the reproduction position, the motor 230 which is rotated counterclockwise to drive the tray 20 to the load position is continuously rotated counterclockwise. The shuttle gear 23 moves the shuttle 28 to the right in the drawing, and moves the carriage 58 engaged with the arm 69 of the shuttle 28 to the reproduction position shown in FIG.

When the carriage 58 is further brought to the stock position, the motor 230 further rotates counterclockwise and the shuttle 28 is moved to the stock position shown in FIG.

<< Description of Operation of Carriage Interval Forming Mechanism >> The operation of the carriage interval forming mechanism will be described with reference to FIGS. 25, 26, and 27.
And FIG. 28. 25 shows the tray 20 at the eject position, FIG. 26 shows the tray 20 at the load position, and FIG.
7 is a reproduction position, and FIG. 28 is a carriage interval forming mechanism when the carriage 58 is at a stock position where it is stored in the stocker.

25 from the eject position shown in FIG. 25 to the reproducing position shown in FIG. 27, the pin 45 of the change plate 43 is located in the concentric circle portion of the cam groove 72 provided in the change gear 42. Change play
The position of g.43 does not change. At these positions, as shown in FIG. 37, which shows other carriages located in the stocker 50 when the carriage is pulled out from the stocker 50 and brought to the reproduction position, as shown in FIG.
The carriage lifter 140 of the change plate 43 is engaged with a triangular engagement protrusion 167 formed on the side surface of the carriage above the carriage pulled out from the stocker 50 among the carriages stored therein. There is. As a result, the carriage above the pulled out carriage is lifted.

In this state, the carriage 59 above the pulled-out carriage 59 is supported by the carriage guide 51 provided on the stocker 50 at the rear end thereof, and the carriage lifter 140 with respect to the lowermost carriage 58. The carriage 59 lifted by is in a tilted state. Therefore, as shown in the drawing, a required space is formed at the front end portions between the carriages that are closely stacked. Note that FIG.
The carriage lifter 140 and the stopper 14
For the description of No. 1, the second carriage 59 from the bottom among the seven carriages is illustrated as being pulled out from the stocker 50.

The stopper 141 is an engaging projection 16 of the carriage 58 located below the pulled-out carriage 59.
It contacts 7 and locks its position. The carriage stoppers 86 and 87 provided on the right side chassis 82 are inserted into the cutout portions 163 with which the shuttles 28 formed on the carriages 58 and 59 are engaged, and similarly, the carriage stoppers in the stocker 50. This is to prevent unnecessary movement of 58 and 59. Also, the carriage stopper 8
A carriage 59 pulled out from the stocker 50 is located in a slot 89 formed between the carriage 6 and the carriage 87.

When the motor 230 rotates counterclockwise in order to store the carriage 58 in the stocker from the reproduction position, the cam groove 72 causes the change plate 43 to face the moving direction of the carriage 58 in FIG. At the stock position where the carriage 58 is moved to the left and brought into the stocker 50, the change plate 43
Is brought to the position of FIG.

At this position, the change plate 4
As shown in FIG. 38, the carriage lifter 140 provided in No. 3 is disengaged from the engagement protrusion 167 of the carriage 58, and lifts the carriage 58. Also,
In this stock position, the arm 6 of the shuttle 28 is
9 is located in a slot 89 formed between the carriage stoppers 86 and 87.

As described above, the moving mechanism of the tray 20, the moving mechanism of the carriage 58 or 59, and the carriage interval forming mechanism share the motor 230, which is the driving source thereof. The movement of the tray 20 from the eject position to the load position, the movement of the carriage from the load position to the stock position, and the operation of the carriage interval forming mechanism at the stock position are all in one direction of the motor. It is continuously performed by rotation. Therefore, it is more advantageous in terms of cost than the one using a dedicated motor for each.

<< Description of Operation of Stocker Moving Mechanism >> As described above, when the pulled out carriage 58 is housed in the stocker 50, one of the seven carriages 58 and 59 is selected. In response to, the motor 231 shown in FIG. 29 is used to move the stocker 50 up and down.
Starts to rotate. The rotation force of the motor 231 is the rubber belt 3
2. The input gear 116 of the planetary gear mechanism 100 is rotated via the worm gear 111 and the reduction gear 112.

Since the change plate 43 is moving leftward in the figure, the change arm 44 connected to the change plate 43 is rotated clockwise about the shaft 127. The rubber attached to the tip of the third arm 63 serves as the second output gear 119 of the planetary gear mechanism 100.
Being pressed against. As a result, the rotational force of the motor 231 is changed to the first output gear 117, the reduction gear 115, the rack 17
The cam base chassis 13 is moved in the right direction in the figure along the elongated hole 18 via.

In the position shown in FIG. 29, the stocker 5
As shown in FIG. 30, 0 has been moved to the uppermost position. When the cam base chassis 13 moves from this position to the right in the figure, the stocker 50 is guided by the long holes 70, 71 by the cam groove 15 formed in the stocker cam plate 14 attached to the cam base chassis 13. Be moved downwards.

FIG. 31 shows the state where the cam base chassis 13 has moved to the rightmost, and the stocker 50 corresponding to this position.
The position of is shown in FIG. In the state shown in FIG. 32,
Among the carriages 58 and 59 accommodated in the stocker 50, the carriage 59 located at the uppermost stage can be pulled out.

<< Explanation of Operation of Moving Mechanism of Optical Mechanism >>
When the motor 230 rotates clockwise to pull out the uppermost carriage 59 and the shuttle 28 moves from the stock position shown in FIG. 24 to the reproduction position shown in FIG.
The change plate 43 in the stock position shown in FIG.
By moving to the right as shown in FIG. 7, the change arm 44 connected to the change plate 43 is moved to the position shown in FIG.
It is rotated counterclockwise from the position shown in FIG. 9 to the position shown in FIG.

At this position, the change arm 44
The rubber provided at the tip of the second arm 62 is pressed against the outer circumference of the reduction gear 115, whereby the rotational force of the motor 231 can be transmitted to the second output gear 119 of the planetary gear mechanism 100. To be done. When the motor 231 rotates in this state, the cam gear 110 is rotated counterclockwise through the reduction gear 114 from the position shown in FIG. 33 to the position shown in FIG.

By this rotation, the damper base 1 which supports the optical mechanism 200 by the rubber ring 183.
As a result of the pin 186 provided at 80 being raised by the cam groove 101, the optical mechanism 200 at the lowered position as shown in FIG. 34 is pivotally supported by the mechanical base arm 181 to the raised position shown in FIG. 36. Move around.

As a result, the disk 201 placed on the carriage 59 is lifted from the carriage 59 by the turntable 202 constituting the optical mechanism 200, and the clamper 190 supported on the top chassis 30 as shown in FIG. The disc 201 is sandwiched between the turntable 202 and the turntable 202, and the disc 201 is rotated by the turntable 202. Also, pickup 2
03 moves to the left and right in FIG.
1 is irradiated with laser light to reproduce the information recorded on the disc 201.

In this reproduction, as shown in FIG. 39 which is a sectional view of an essential part at the reproduction position, the carriage 59 on which the disk 201 to be reproduced is placed is placed in the stocker 5.
It is done without pulling everything from 0. Particularly, the peripheral portion of the disk 201 lifted from the carriage 59 by the turntable 202 is located at the carriage lifter 1
Positioned in the space with a space provided by 40, the contact of the disk 201 with the carriage due to surface wobbling or the like is effectively prevented. Note that in FIG. 39, as in FIG. 37, the second carriage 59 from the bottom among the seven carriages is illustrated as being pulled out from the stocker 50. Further, a state where the pickup 203 has moved to the outermost peripheral position of the disc 201 is shown by a dotted line.

When the disc 201 being reproduced is ejected to the outside of the player, the operation opposite to the above description may be performed. That is, by rotating the motor 231 as shown in FIG.
5. After lowering the optical mechanism 200 at the position shown in FIG. 36 to the position shown in FIG. 33 and FIG.
22 from the position shown in FIG.
The carriage 5 in the tray 20.
Insert 9. Further, the motor 230 is rotated and the tray 20 is moved from the position shown in FIG. 18 to the position shown in FIG. 17 to the eject position.

Further, the present invention is not limited to the above-mentioned embodiment, and for example, a carriage guide for supporting the rear portion of the carriage may be arranged behind the side surface of the carriage to support the carriage, It can take various forms.

[0081]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the carriage on which the disc to be reproduced is placed is pulled out from the stocker, the front end of the carriage located above the carriage is placed in a direction substantially perpendicular to the recording surface of the disc. Since the tilted state is obtained by moving the structure, the structure can be simplified as compared with the case where the entire carriage is horizontally moved.

When the present invention is applied to a disc reproducing apparatus for reproducing a disc in a state where the disc is partially overlapped with the disc in the stocker without pulling out the disc from the stocker, the disc to be reproduced and the portion above the disc are reproduced. The distance between the carriage and the carriage can be reliably obtained at least in the overlap portion.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a disc player in an eject position.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view of a disc player in a load position.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a disc player at a reproducing position.

FIG. 4 is a schematic view of a disc player in a stock position.

FIG. 5 is a development view of the chassis.

FIG. 6 is a perspective view showing a clamper mechanism.

FIG. 7 is a development view showing a support mechanism of an optical mechanism.

FIG. 8 is a sectional view of a main part of the damper.

FIG. 9 is a top view and a right side view of the carriage.

FIG. 10 is a perspective view of a carriage.

FIG. 11 is a development view of a stocker.

FIG. 12 is a development view of a cambase chassis.

FIG. 13 is a development view of the tray.

FIG. 14 is a development view of a tray moving mechanism, a carriage moving mechanism, and a carriage gap forming mechanism.

FIG. 15 is a development view showing the left side chassis.

FIG. 16 is a development view showing an optical mechanism moving mechanism and a stocker moving mechanism.

FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a tray moving mechanism at an eject position.

FIG. 18 is a view showing the tray moving mechanism in the load position.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a tray moving mechanism at a reproduction position.

FIG. 20 is a view showing a tray moving mechanism at a stock position.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a carriage moving mechanism at an eject position.

FIG. 22 is a view showing the carriage moving mechanism at the load position.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing a carriage moving mechanism at a reproduction position.

FIG. 24 is a view showing a carriage moving mechanism at a stock position.

FIG. 25 is a view showing a carriage gap forming mechanism at an eject position.

FIG. 26 is a view showing a carriage gap forming mechanism at a load position.

FIG. 27 is a view showing a carriage gap forming mechanism at a reproduction position.

FIG. 28 is a view showing a carriage gap forming mechanism at a stock position.

FIG. 29 is a view showing a stocker moving mechanism when the stocker is at the highest position.

FIG. 30 is a view showing the stocker in the highest position.

FIG. 31 is a view showing a stocker moving mechanism when the stocker is at the lowest position.

FIG. 32 is a view showing the stocker in the lowest position.

FIG. 33 is a view showing the optical mechanism moving mechanism when the optical mechanism is at the lowered position.

FIG. 34 shows the optical mechanism in the lowered position.

FIG. 35 is a view showing the optical mechanism moving mechanism when the optical mechanism is at the raised position.

FIG. 36 is a view showing the optical mechanism in a raised position.

FIG. 37 is a view showing a carriage interval forming means at a reproduction position.

FIG. 38 is a view showing the carriage gap forming means at the stock position.

FIG. 39 is a main-portion cross-sectional view showing the disc and the stocker during disc playback.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Main Chassis 11 Bottom Chassis 14 Stocker Cam Plate 20 Tray 23 Shuttle Gear 28 Shuttle 42 Change Cam 43 Change Plate 44 Change Arm 50 Stocker 58 Carriage 59 Carriage 68 Rack 100 Planetary Gear Mechanism 140 Carriage Lifter 141 Stopper 183 Rubber Ring 200 Optical Mechanism 201 Disc 202 Turntable 203 Pickup 230 Motor 231 Motor

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A disc reproducing means, which is movable relative to the disc at a reproducing position for reproducing the disc, and a plurality of carriages having a mounting portion for mounting the disc on one surface thereof. A stocker for accommodating the plurality of carriages in a stacked state in close contact with each other without a gap so that the rotation axes of the disks mounted on the respective carriages are coaxial; and a carriage selected from the plurality of carriages, A carriage moving unit that pulls out the carriage from the stocker with the front end of the carriage as a head so as to be movable from the stocker to the reproduction position; and a carriage supporting unit that is provided in the stocker and supports a rear portion of the carriage, When the selected carriage moves from the stocker to the playback position, the selected carriage is Abutting an upper carriage that is in close contact with the one surface of the carriage, and moving the front end of the upper carriage in a direction substantially perpendicular to the moving direction of the carriage so that a required space is formed with the upper carriage at the front end of the carriage, A disc reproducing apparatus comprising: a carriage gap forming means for inclining the upper carriage with respect to the selected carriage with the carriage supporting means as a fulcrum. 2. The disc reproducing means is movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to the recording surface of the disc with respect to the disc brought to the reproducing position, and the reproducing position of the disc is the entire disc from the stocker. 2. The disk reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the disk reproducing apparatus is located at a position where it overlaps with another disk stored in the stocker without being pulled out. 3. The carriage has a concave portion having a required depth formed at a rear end of the other surface facing the one surface, and the carriage supporting means has the concave portion when the carriage is stored in the stocker. 2. The disc reproducing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a plurality of protrusions formed thinner than the depth of the recesses that can be inserted into a space formed between the surface of the carriage and the one surface of the carriage opposed thereto.