JPH0676522A - Magazine for cartridge disks - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To simply draw out a cartridge housed in the magazine into a player and to reproduce it accordingly. CONSTITUTION:The cartridge 1 is formed with drawing cavities 3a and 3b to enable the cartridge to be drawn out when the magazine 2 housing plural cartridges 1 arranged in parallel is inserted into the player, and the cartridges 1 are housed in the magazine 2 under the state of exposing these drawing cavities 3a and 3b to the outside. By this constitution, the cartridge 1 can easily be drawn out of the magazine 2, and the cartridge 1 can be set in a disk reproducing position accordingly.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cartridge disc magazine, for example, a player for storing a plurality of cartridge discs for accommodating discs on which information is optically recorded and selecting one of them to reproduce. For magazines for cartridge discs.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art When a plurality of conventional discs are accommodated and set in a player, one of the accommodated discs is selected and taken out to accommodate a plurality of discs set in the player. In a magazine, it contains bare discs not housed in a case or cartridge.

On the other hand, like a floppy disk in which a magnetic disk has recently been housed in a cartridge, information is recorded by an optical method and the disk is housed in a cartridge in which a recording / reproducing window hole is closed by a shutter. A cartridge disc called a mini disc has been announced, and in a magazine that stores a plurality of this cartridges in parallel, it is not possible to directly pull out the disc from the magazine like a conventional disc magazine. .

[0004]

On the other hand, in a magazine in which the cartridges containing the disks are stored in parallel, when the magazine is set in the player, the cartridge needs a means for pulling out from the magazine. However, there is a problem with this ejecting means in that the magazine in which a plurality of cartridges are stored in parallel must be in a state in which the ejecting means of the player can be engaged with the ejecting means of the cartridge.

The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems, and provides means for pulling out the cartridge from the magazine storing the cartridge as described above and setting it in the player. It is an object of the present invention to store cartridges of No. 1, and select one of them to supply a magazine for a cartridge disc that can be set to a player.

[0006]

The present invention is characterized in that a plurality of cartridges for accommodating a disk and having a pair of drawer recesses can be stored in parallel while the drawer recesses are exposed to the insertion port side of the cartridge. Is.

[0007]

In the cartridge disc magazine according to the present invention, the magazine is constructed so that the drawer recess of the cartridge is exposed to the outside of the storage opening side for storing the cartridge in the magazine. You can grab the cartridge and pull the cartridge out of the magazine to set the cartridge at the disc playback position.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. 1 to 5 are views showing a magazine for cartridge disks according to the present invention. First, the configuration will be described.
In FIG. 1, reference numeral 2 is a cartridge disk magazine according to the present invention.
Has cartridges 1 arranged in parallel, has a gap between the cartridges, and has a shelf 2a for partitioning which can be freely taken in and out. A window 1 for a pickup that records and reproduces information on the disc to read a signal is usually closed by a slidable shutter 1a provided in the cartridge 1 in the cartridge 1 that contains the disc.

The cartridge 1 is formed with pull-out recesses 3a and 3b on both left and right sides in the direction of insertion into the magazine 2, and a locking groove 5 which is locked by a locking pawl 4 of the magazine 2 is pulled out. It is provided adjacent to 3a and 3b.

Further, the cartridge 1 is provided with a subject indication 6 on the end face opposite to the direction of insertion into the magazine 2 for displaying the contents of information recorded on the disc accommodated in the cartridge 1. A transparent plate 8 is formed on the side of the magazine 2 opposite to the insertion opening side of the cartridge 1 so that the subject display 6 of the cartridge 1 stored in the magazine 2 can be seen.

A magazine 2 for storing the cartridge 1
Are arranged so that the cartridges 1 are arranged in parallel in the up and down direction so that the planes overlap and are formed between the cartridges 1 so that they can be stored.

Further, on the right and left side surfaces of the magazine 2, there are provided locking claws 4 which engage with the locking grooves 5 of the cartridge 1 inserted in each of the divided stages, and as shown in FIG. The inner surface side of the locking claw 4 is formed into an inclined surface 4a that inclines to the back side,
The cartridge 1 is locked by the locking claw 4 of the locking groove 5.
When the cartridge 1 is pulled out, the engaging claws 4 escape so that the cartridge 1 can be pulled out freely.

Next, the operation will be described. In the present invention, the magazine 2 storing the cartridge 1 in this way
Is inserted into the player A through the insertion opening 7 of the player A, the pull-out recesses 3a and 3b of the cartridge 1 are located on the inner side of the player A, and when the pull-out means in the player A grips this, It does not slip from the withdrawal means, so that the cartridge 1 can be withdrawn and set in the play position.

According to the present invention, when the magazine 2 storing the plurality of cartridges 1 containing the discs as described above is inserted into the player A, 1 is selected from the magazines and the pull-out depressions 3a and 3b are formed in the player. The pull-out means of A can grab and pull out and set this at the playback position of player A. Moreover, the mechanism for pulling out the cartridge 1 from the magazine 2 can be made extremely simple.

[0015]

As described above, according to the present invention,
The cartridge that contains the disk is provided with a drawer recess, and the magazine that stores this cartridge is stored so that the drawer recess is exposed at the cartridge insertion side of the magazine. It is possible to pull out the cartridge by grasping the pull-out recess.

Therefore, a magazine for storing a plurality of cartridges is inserted into the player, and an arbitrary cartridge is selected and set at the reproducing position of the player as a cartridge disk magazine of the auto loading device of the player. It is possible to pull out this from the magazine by making a selection.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of a magazine for cartridge disks according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a cartridge used in the embodiment shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view showing a state where the magazine shown in FIG. 1 is inserted into a player.

FIG. 4 is a plan view of a main part showing a locked state of the cartridge and the magazine shown in FIG.

[Explanation of symbols]

 A player 1 cartridge 2 cartridge disc magazine 3a, 3b drawer recess

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A magazine for a cartridge disc, wherein a plurality of cartridges for accommodating a disc and having a pair of pull-out recesses can be stored in parallel in a state in which the pull-out recesses are exposed to the insertion port side of the cartridge.