Patent ID: 7234151
Filing Date: 2007-06-19
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk player comprising: a tray driving device for moving a tray placed in a casing forward/backward; and an emergency mechanism for slightly moving the tray forward by a manual operation using a thin rod, wherein: the tray driving device includes the emergency mechanism includes the touching plate of the emergency mechanism is extracted from the gear mechanism, located near the front panel of the casing and rotatably pivoted on a pivoting axis to the casing; the longitudinal width and transverse width of the thin rod contact face of the touching plate are set at the magnitudes five times larger than the external diameter of the thin rod; an arm is protruded from the touching plate so as to be opposite to a lever protruded from the end of the slide bar; a nozzle is arranged in place of the guide plate to be near the thin rod contact face of the touching plate, the nozzle being protruded concentrically to the through-hole, integrally protruded from the inner face of the front panel, the nozzle having a prescribed length; and the thin rod passed through the through-hole is guided by the nozzle so that the tip of the thin rod is brought into contact with the thin rod contact face of the touching plate, and by pushing in the touching plate about the pivoting axis, the slide bar is slid in the prescribed direction through the arm and lever, thereby slightly moving the tray forward.