The invention provides a removable retain apparatus for a disc within a disc player. When the disc player of the type is disposed horizontally and the retainer is not needed any more, the user may easily disassembly the removable retainer. The disc player has a tray within which a cavity is provided to accommodate the disc and the cavity defines a circumference along which a plurality of grooves on the tray and each corresponding removable retain apparatus is provided. The removable retain apparatus includes a disc holder, a pivot pin and a elastic device. The pivot pin has a cap portion and a root portion. The disc holder has a predetermined thickness and has a shaft inserted within one corresponding groove located along the circumference defined by the cavity. The shaft has a first slot running through the thickness of the disc holder and a second slot disposed at a predetermined angle with respect to the first slot. The elastic device is disposed within the groove and has a channel allowing passage of the root portion of the pivot pin. After assembly, the pivot pin is inserted through and into the channel of the elastic device and the first slot of the shaft with the cap portion of the pivot pin pressing the elastic means. The root portion engages within the second slot.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a disk device that can use disks of different diameter sizes and can be used in a vertical orientation. A disk tray (31) that makes up the disk drive has holding members (37) which hold a disk inserted in depressions (32, 33) from outside its surface. The holding members (37) are construed so as to be able to move along guide grooves (35, 36). By moving holding members (37) to fit the diameter size of the disk that is to be inserted in the depressions (32, 33) the lower part of the disk can be held by the holding members (37) even if the disk device is used in vertical orientation.
Disclosed is a disk adapter for receiving a disk-type recording medium on an inner circumference side thereof, comprising: a main plate portion having a substantially arcuate shape of a central angle of 180.degree. or more; and a supporting portion formed on a half circumference side of the inner circumference of the main plate portion for supporting the disk-type recording medium mounted on the disk adapter. Consequently, mounting and removing operations of a disk-type recording medium onto and from the disk adapter are very simple.
A disk device is provided with a disk tray having a detachable guide member, which guides an optical disk between a depression and claws provided thereon. When an optical disk is to be mounted within a disk device in the vertical orientation, the optical disk can automatically be guided between depression and claws by moving the disk along the guide member. In addition, because the guide member is detachable, it can be attached if the disk device is to be used in vertical orientation and removed if it is to be used in horizontal orientation.
In a tray loading type storage medium drive apparatus, a plurality of circular recesses for accommodating a plurality of kinds of circular storage media having different diameters to each other are coaxially formed on a tray. A plurality of movable claw pieces are provided along an outer periphery of an outermost one of the circular recesses. The movable claw pieces are capable of partly protruding over each of the circular recesses.
This invention discloses a compact disc receptacle for containing different sized compact discs. The compact disc receptacle comprises a base having at least a positioning hole seat, and at least a positioning members corresponding to the positioning hole seats. Each positioning member comprises a pivot section for placing into each positioning hole seat respectively, and a positioning wall standing on the pivot section. Each positioning wall have a plurality of positioning edges that can be adapted for setting different sized compact discs by selectively pivoting the positioning members relatively to the compact disc seats.
