JPS6282548A - Disk device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To eject completely a disk with simple constitution by turning an operating matter while the finger touches a support member attached fixedly to a guide member and the operating matter attached freely turnably to said guide member. CONSTITUTION:When a disk cartridge 3 is ejected out of the main body of a disk device 1, the finger touches are given to the knobs 32 and 33 set at the front of the device 1. Both knobs are pressed inside with each other. Thus a rotary lever 34 attached with the knob 33 is turned toward an arrow head direction therefore, a movable member 12 which is always energized to the front side by coil springs 25 and 25 is moved back against the force of both springs. Thus a disk holding member 16 of a disk holding means 11 moves up and at the same time a lock mechanism 31 is released. At the same time, a shutter opening/closing mechanism 18 of the means 11 is actuated. Then the cartridge 3 is ejected as if an end part of the cartridge 3 protruded through a loading/unloading port 4 with a shutter 17 kept closed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Technical Field of the Invention] The present invention relates to an improvement in a disc device that reproduces at least information by mounting a disc on a disc mounting table for rotating a disc, such as an optical disc.

[Technical background of the invention and its problems]

Conventionally, in this type of disk device, when ejecting a disk inside the device main body, the method was to press a push button on the front of the device main body, or to rotate a knob on the front of the device main body to the left or right. It is used.

However, with these methods, when pressing a push button or turning a knob, there is always a
There is no problem if the device body can be directly fixed to something, as there will be a force trying to move it in either direction.
When providing some kind of shock-absorbing means between the device main body and the fixing base, there is a problem in that the shock-absorbing means is adversely affected.

[Purpose of the invention]

The present invention has been made based on the above circumstances, and its purpose is to have a simple structure, but to avoid applying any force to the fixed part of the device when ejecting the disk from the device main body. The object of the present invention is to provide a disc device that can reliably eject a disc without any problems.

[Summary of the invention]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a disk device for at least reproducing information by mounting a disk on a disk mounting table for rotating the disk, including a disk holding means for holding the disk, and a disk holding means for holding the disk. a movable member that displaces the disc in a direction in which the disc approaches and separates from the disc mounting table; a guide member that guides the movable member and the disc holding means; a guide member that is rotatably attached to the guide member; The configuration includes an operating body that displaces the movable member in a predetermined direction so as to displace the disk holding means by rotational movement, and this operating support member, and are fixedly attached to the same guide member! By rotating the operating body with your finger on the supporting member and the rotatably mounted operating body, the force applied to the operating body is canceled out so that it does not act on the fixed part of the device. This is what I did.

(Embodiments of the invention) Hereinafter, one embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

Reference numeral 1 in FIG. 1 is the main body of the disk device, and at the upper front of the device main body 1 is a disk cartridge insertion/ejection opening 4 into which a disk cartridge 3 containing a disk 2 is inserted/removed.
A light emitting element 5a is formed at the upper right portion of the disk cartridge insertion/ejection opening 4 to display statuses such as the power-on state and the mounting state of the disk cartridge 3.

5b is placed.

Further, an insertion guide 6 is provided protruding along the lower edge of the opening of the disk cartridge insertion/ejection opening 4, and the inserted disk cartridge 3 is inserted into the main body of the apparatus under the insertion guide 6. An operating section 7 for discharging the liquid to the outside is provided.

Furthermore, as shown in FIGS. 2 to 4, the device main body 1 houses a disk recording/reproducing unit 9 (detailed explanation will be omitted as it is well known) having a disk mounting table 8. In addition, this disc recording/playback unit 9
On the top side, there is a disk 2 housed in a disk cartridge 3 inserted from the disk cartridge insertion/removal port 4.
A disk cartridge holding unit 10, which is used to attach and detach the disk cartridge to and from the disk mounting table 8, is housed therein.

As shown exploded in FIG. 2, the disk cartridge holding unit 10 includes a disk holding means 11 for holding a disk cartridge 2 containing the disk 3, and a disk holding means 11 for holding the disk 3 on a disk mounting table 8. A movable member 12 that is displaced in a direction toward and away from the
, this movable member 12 and the disk holding means 11
a guide member 13 that guides the disk; an operating body 14 that is rotatably attached to the guide member 13 and that, through its rotational movement, displaces the movable member 12 in a predetermined direction to displace the disk holding means 11; Near this operating body 14,
And, it is opposite to the guide member 13 described above.

The disk holding means 11 includes a holding member 16 having disk cartridge supports 16a, 16a on both sides of the lower surface.
and a shutter opening/closing mechanism 18 that is incorporated into the holding member 16 and opens the shutter 17 that closes the disk exposure opening of the disk cartridge 2 as the disk cartridge 2 is inserted.

Further, the guide member 13 is attached to a first guide frame 20 attached along the negative side of the upper surface of the disc recording/reproducing unit 9, and along the other side of the upper surface and the front end of the upper surface of the disc recording/reproducing unit 9. The movable member 12 is located between the side frames 208.21a of both guide frames 20.21 of the movable member 12.

A pair of guide bins 22 and 22 are provided protruding from the outer wall surfaces of the side frames 12a and 12b formed along both side edges of the movable member 12, respectively. These guide bins 22... are connected to both the guide frames 20, 21.
side frame 20a.

The movable member 12 is engaged with the guide holes 23 and 23, which are elongated holes that are elongated in the lateral direction, formed in each of the 2 Ma, and the movable member 12 is movable only in the front-back direction along the side frames 20a and 21a. It has become.

Furthermore, the side frame 20 of the guide frame 20.21
a, 21ae and the side frame 12a of the movable member 12
, 12b are formed with spring hooks 24, respectively, and coil springs 25, 25 are wound around them. The movable member 12 is always urged in the forward direction, that is, so that the vertical piece 26 formed on the front end frame portion 12C of the movable member 12 comes into contact with the end surface of the front frame portion 21C of the guide frame 21. .

Also, the side frame 20a of the guide frame 20.21
, 21a are formed with guide holes 27, 27, which are elongated holes that are elongated in the vertical direction, and side frames 12a, 12b of the movable member 12 are formed with cam holes 28 in the shape of a cylindrical shape. 28 are formed respectively.

Guide bins 30.30 protruding from both side walls of the holding member 16 of the disk holding means 11 are connected to the cam holes 28.28 and the elongated holes which are elongated in the vertical direction. The guide holes 27 and 27 are successively passed through.

Therefore, the holding member 16 of the disk holding means 11 is movable only in the vertical direction along the guide holes 27 and 27, which are elongated holes that are elongated in the vertical direction.
2 to the upper limit position, and the movable member 1
2 toward the front, it is configured to be displaced to the lower limit position.

Further, a locking mechanism 31 is disposed near the guide frame 20, and can be fixed in a state in which the disc holding member 16 is at the lower limit position, that is, in a state in which the disc 2 is mounted on the disc mounting table 8. There is.

Further, a knob 3 is provided on the front frame portion 21c of the second guide frame 21.
A projection piece 21d having a tip 2 attached to the tip thereof is integrally formed and constitutes the finger support member 15.

Further, a rotary lever 34 having a knob 33 attached to its tip is rotatably attached to the front frame portion 21G via a support shaft 35, and constitutes the operating body 14. and,
The finger support member 15 and the operating body 14 constitute an operating section 7 for ejecting the inserted disk cartridge 2 out of the main body 1 of the apparatus.

When the disk cartridge 3 is inserted, the movable member 12 is located on the front side as shown in FIG. 3, the holding member 16 of the disk holding means 11 is at the lower limit position, and the locking mechanism 31. On the other hand, the shutter 17 is opened by the shutter opening/closing mechanism 18, and the disk 2
is mounted on the disc mounting table 8 of the disc recording/reproducing unit 9, and information processing is performed in this state.

In addition, when ejecting the disk cartridge 3 to the outside of the apparatus main body 1, a knob 32 disposed on the front of the apparatus main body 1 is used.
The user places his/her fingers on the knob 33 and applies inward force to each other, thereby rotating the rotating lever 34 to which the knob 33 is attached in the direction of the arrow as shown in FIG. 4. As a result, coil spring 2
5 and 25, the movable member 12 is displaced backward against the urging force, and this movement causes the disk holding member 16 of the disk holding means 11 to rise, and at the same time, the locking mechanism 31 is released. At the same time, the shutter opening/closing mechanism 18 of the disc holding means 11 operates. And disk cartridge 3 is shutter 1
When the disk cartridge 7 is closed, the disk cartridge is ejected so that one end thereof protrudes from the disk cartridge insertion/ejection opening 4. The operator pulls out the disk cartridge 3 by pinching the portion protruding from the disk cartridge insertion/ejection opening 4.

In this way, when ejecting the disk cartridge 3 to the outside of the apparatus main body 1, the protrusion 2 attached to the same guide frame 21
1d and the knob 33 that is integrated with the rotating lever 34 and apply force inward to each other, the force applied to these operating bodies is applied to the fixed part of the device, i.e. , will not be transmitted to the disk recording/reproducing unit 9 integrated with the main body 1 of the apparatus.

Although the above-mentioned embodiment has been described using a disk cartridge 3 in which the disk 2 is housed in the cartridge, the present invention is not limited to this, and may be applied to a device in which the disk 2 is directly inserted or removed. good. Further, the device is not limited to one for recording and reproducing the disc 2, but may be for only reproducing.

In addition, it goes without saying that the present invention can be modified in various ways without departing from the gist of the invention.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the present invention provides a disc device that plays back at least information by mounting a disc on a disc mounting table for rotating the disc, including disc holding means for holding the disc; a movable member that displaces the disk holding means in a direction in which the disk approaches and leaves the disk mounting table; a guide member that guides the movable member and the disk holding means; a movable member that is rotatable with respect to the guide member; The operating body includes an operating body that is attached to the operating body and displaces the movable member in a predetermined direction in order to displace the disk holding means by its rotation, and the operating member, and is fixedly attached to the same guide member. By rotating the operating body with your fingers hooked on the n supporting member and the rotatably mounted operating body, the force applied to the operating body is prevented from acting on the fixed part of the Ha main body. They are designed to cancel each other out.Thus, although the configuration is simple, the disc can be reliably ejected without applying any force to the fixed parts of the device when ejecting the disc from the device main body. This has the advantage of being able to provide a disk device.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

The drawings show one embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 1 is an external perspective view, FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view schematically showing the internal mechanism, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the state when a disk cartridge is installed. FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view showing the state when the disk cartridge is ejected. DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1... Apparatus body, 2... Disk, 7... Operating unit, 11... Disk holding means, 12... Movable member,
13... Guide member, 14... Operating body, 15...
Finger support member. Applicant's agent Patent attorney Takehiko Suzue Figure 2

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A disk device for at least reproducing information by mounting a disk on a disk mounting table for rotating the disk, comprising a disk holding means for holding the disk, and a disk holding means for holding the disk. a movable member that is moved toward and away from the mounting table; a guide member that guides the movable member and the disc holding means; and a guide member that is rotatably attached to the guide member, and the disc is It is characterized by comprising an operating body that displaces the movable member in a predetermined direction in order to displace the holding means, and a supporting member fixedly provided near the operating body and with respect to the guide member. disk device.