Patent ID: 6940787
Filing Date: 2005-09-06
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk changer, comprising: a rotatable tray configured to rotate on a chassis and having a plurality of accommodation portions arranged in a ring-like configuration to accommodate a plurality of disk-type recording media therein such that major faces of said disk-type recording media oppose each other; a tray rotating mechanism configured to rotate said rotatable tray; a first recording and/or reproduction section configured to record and/or reproduce an information signal onto and/or from one of the disk-type recording media; a second recording and/or reproduction section configured to record and/or reproduce an information signal onto and/or from one of the disk-type recording media; a first disk takeout mechanism configured to take out one of the disk-type recording media accommodated in said accommodation portions of said rotatable tray and transport the disk-type recording medium to said first recording and/or reproduction section and to take out the disk-type recording medium from said first recording and/or reproduction section and transport the disk-type recording medium to one of said accommodation portions; a second disk takeout mechanism configured to take out one of the disk-type recording media accommodated in said accommodation portions of said rotatable tray and transport the disk-type recording medium to said second recording and/or reproduction section and to take out the disk-type recording medium from said second recording and/or reproduction section and transport the disk-type recording medium to one of said accommodation portions; an address detection section configured to detect an address of the accommodating portions of the rotatable tray; and a disk detection section configured to detect whether one of the disk-type recording media is disposed in the accommodating portion corresponding to the address, wherein the first and second recording and/or reproduction sections are disposed apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the rotatable tray, and the address detection section and the disk detection section are disposed opposite each another at a position corresponding to a position of one of the accommodating portions positioned between the first and second recording and/or reproducing sections along the circumferential direction of the rotatable tray.