JPH0210507B2 - - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a disc loading mechanism for a so-called audio disc player that performs optical PCM recording. A guide member that slopes away from the center of the disk as it moves away from the disk placement surface is provided on the disk placement surface of the tray that is transferred between the insertion position and the disk playback position. The guide member is positioned at the center of the disk mounting surface by abutting the lower end, and simultaneously moves away from the outer periphery of the disk when the disk mounting surface moves away from the disk at the disc playback position.

Conventionally, known disc loading mechanisms for autoloading record players include those that transport the disc by sandwiching it between rollers, and those that clamp the center hole of the disc and suspend it. It was large and complex.

Therefore, in order to improve the above-mentioned drawbacks of the conventional device, the present invention supports a tray on which an inserted disc is placed so as to be movable between the disc insertion position and the disc playback position, and , the disk is rotated in a state where it is only slightly separated from the disk mounting surface of the tray.

An object of the present invention is to provide such a disk loading mechanism that can accurately position the tray at the center of the disk mounting surface, and that does not require a special drive mechanism to move the tray away from the disk during playback. The objective is to obtain a simple positioning mechanism with a simple structure.

Embodiments of the invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows its appearance, and the front panel of the player cabinet 1 is provided with operation switches and a slit into which a disk 20 is inserted.

FIG. 2 is a plan view and a front view of the internal mechanism, which includes a phono motor 7, a pick-up 11 that moves linearly in the radial direction of the disk,
It consists of a tray 2 that transfers a disk inserted through a slit onto a phono motor 7 and its drive mechanism.

The tray 2 is supported so as to be rotatable in the horizontal direction and slidable in the vertical direction by a rotation shaft 14 provided at the left end thereof and a support shaft 31 fixed to a bent portion on the upper side of the tray support base 4. There is.

The rotating shaft 14 of the tray 2 has a disk insertion position where the disk inserted through the slit is placed on the tray 2, and a position where the disk is fixed to the rotating shaft of the phono motor 7 (only the periphery of the center hole of the disk is supported). The disc is located approximately to the left of the center of the disc playback position where the disc is clamped to a small turntable 15 for playback.

On the top surface of the tray 2, there are three tapered guide pins 2, as shown in Figure 4 A and B.
b, 2c, and 2d are provided, and the disk inserted through the slit is positioned by coming into contact with the thick portion of the base.

As shown in Figure C, when the tray descends and separates from the disk during performance, the disk moves to the narrow part at the tip of the guide pin and comes out of contact with the guide pin.

A front/back discriminating element 12 is provided near the guide pin 2b for optically detecting whether the recording surface is correctly facing downward.

Further, an insertion completion detection element 13 is provided near the guide pin 2c to optically detect that the inserted disk is correctly positioned.

Three brake pads 30 made of felt, rubber, etc. are provided on the upper surface of the tray 2 to prevent damage and displacement of the disk and to act as a brake when stopped.

The effectiveness of the brake is adjusted by appropriately selecting the number and size of the brake pads (they may be spread over the entire disk mounting surface).

A clamper support plate 3 is fixed at a predetermined interval above the tray 2, and a clamper 8 for clamping the disc to the turntable 15 during performance is loosely supported at the center of the plate (see FIG. 3).

As shown in FIG. 5, the rotation shaft 1 of the tray 2
The drive cam 5, which the lower end of 4 abuts, is connected to the slide plate 1.
The tray 2 is supported so as to be movable in the front-rear direction along the guide grooves 16a of No. 6, and the tray 2 is moved in the up-down direction by this movement.

A drive pin 2c protruding from the surface of the tray 2 engages with a guide groove 6a of a guide plate 6 (see FIG. 7) fixed to the drive cam 5, and the movement of the guide plate causes the tray 2 to move horizontally. Rotate.

As shown in FIG. 6, the drive cam 5 (and guide plate 6) is driven by a motor 10 via a worm gear 9, a main gear 17, and a wire 22, and is driven by a motor 10 through a worm gear 9, a main gear 17, and a wire 22, and limit switches 19a and 1.
9b determines its stopping position.

Next, while referring to Figure 5 A, B and C,
The operation will be explained.

When the disk 20 is inserted through the slit provided on the front panel, the disk 20 slides along the top surface of the tray 2 and connects to the three guide pins 2b, 2.
c and 2d.

When the insertion completion detection element 13 detects that it is correctly positioned, the drive motor 10 is started,
The drive cam 5 and the guide plate 6 move backward,
Tray 2 rotates counterclockwise (when viewed from above).

At the position where the tray 2 has rotated a little, the front/back discrimination element 12 operates, and if the recording surface of the disc is correctly facing down, the loading operation continues; however, if the recording surface is facing upward, the loading operation continues. The drive motor 10 is reversed to return the tray 2 to the insertion position.

Tray 2 rotates to the playing position and the disc 20
When the center of the tray 2 comes to the axis of the phono motor 7, the tray 2 stops rotating, and when the drive cam 5 moves further backward, the rotating shaft 14 descends along the inclined surface of the cam surface 5a, and the disc 20 is moved. turntable 15
lower to the top.

The clamper 8 or the turntable 15 clamps the disk 20 by the magnets built into them, and the tray 2 further descends and separates from the disk 20 (see Figure 4 C).The clamper 8 moves a little away from the clamper support plate 3 and becomes free. It is now ready to rotate.

Then, the drive cam 5 switches the limit switch 19a.
is turned on to stop the drive motor 10, start the phono motor 7, and start automatic performance.

During the performance, press the eject switch on the front panel or press the pick-up 11
When the phono motor 7 reaches the outer periphery of the disk 20 and the performance ends, the power to the phono motor 7 is turned off and the pickup 11 is reset.

Next, when the drive motor 10 starts rotating in the opposite direction to that during loading and the drive cam 5 moves forward to raise the tray 2, the disk clamp is released and the disk comes into contact with the brake pad 30 and stops.

Furthermore, the guide plate 6 moves forward and the tray 2
Rotate clockwise, and all operations stop at the disk insertion position.

In addition, in the above embodiment, three tapered guide pins are used as positioning members, but
It is not limited to such a shape, but in short,
It only needs to have a guide part that moves away from the center of the disk as it moves away from the disk mounting surface, so various modifications are possible, such as providing a cylindrical pin that is inclined outward, or providing a cam with an inclined surface. In addition, it is sufficient that the number of positioning members is two.

Further, the horizontal movement of the tray does not necessarily have to be rotational movement, and may be moved linearly using rails, for example.

As explained above, in the disk loading mechanism of the present invention, when the disk is inserted, the outer circumference of the disk comes into contact with the inclined guide member and is guided to the center of the disk mounting surface. It is possible to accurately position the disc at the center of the disc mounting surface, and since the movement of the disc mounting surface away from the disc at the playback position also causes the guide member to separate from the outer periphery of the disc, the guide member can be moved away from the disc. It does not require a special drive mechanism to separate it from the body, has an extremely simple structure, and has a unique effect of high operational reliability.

The loading mechanism of the present invention can be used not only in the audio disc player of the above embodiment, but also in any player that uses a disc-shaped record carrier such as a video disc or a record disc.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of the invention, FIG. 2 is a plan view and front view of its internal mechanism, FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the tray, and FIG. 4 is a position of the disk and guide pin. FIG. 5 is a plan view and a side view showing the operation of the tray, and A, B, and C in the same figure represent the start of loading, the completion of tray rotation, and the completion of loading, respectively. FIG. 6 is a plan view of the tray drive mechanism, and FIG. 7 is a perspective view of the drive cam and guide plate. 2...Tray, 2b, 2c and 2d...Guide pin.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A disk mounting surface on which an inserted disk is placed, which moves horizontally between the disk insertion position and the disk playback position, and which moves relative to the turntable at the disk playback position, and a disk playback position. and a turntable that supports and rotates the disk, the disk mounting surface moves relative to the turntable at the disk playback position, and further moves relative to the turntable after placing the disk on the turntable. In a disk loading mechanism in which the disk mounting surface moves away from the disk, there is a mechanism at the outer periphery of the disk on the disk mounting surface that tilts away from the center of the disk as it moves away from the disk mounting surface. A guide member is provided, and when the disc is placed on the disk placement surface, the outer periphery of the disk comes into contact with the lower end of the guide member and is positioned at the center of the disk placement surface. A disk loading mechanism characterized in that when a placing surface moves relative to a turntable and further moves relatively after placing the disk on the turntable, a guide member separates from the outer periphery of the disk.