Patent ID: 6335914
Filing Date: 2002-01-01
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
An optical disc device, comprisinga traverse base disposed on a device body, said traverse base including an optical pickup that records a signal on an optical disc or that reproduces a signal recorded thereon and a feed motor that displaces said optical pickup forward and backward from an inner circumferential position of an optical disc to an outer circumferential position thereof via means for driving said optical pickup, and the device body includes loading means for transferring an optical disc from the exterior of the device body onto said traverse base and loading driving means for driving said loading means using said feed motor, said optical pickup driving means and said loading driving means being directly driven by said feed motor at different times, and wherein the optical pickup driving means displaces the optical pickup to an extended switching position (Y) that is closer to a center of an optical disc than a signal position range (X) on such optical disc in which signals are recorded, and wherein when said optical pickup is at the extended switching position (Y), a rotational driving force of the feed motor is switched and transmitted to the loading drive means.