Patent ID: 6169719
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A car-mounted disc/tape player comprising a disc player including a pick-up for playing back data recorded on a disc and a disc drive motor for rotating the disc, a tape player for playing back data recorded on a tape in a compact tape cassette and including a tape drive motor having a greater axial dimension than the disc drive motor, and a cabinet having a substantially rectangular shape capable of being accommodated in a predetermined accommodation space in a car, the disc player and the tape player being assembled in the cabinet; said cabinet having a front operation board having a disc insertion slot for inserting the disc with the recording surface thereof down into the disc player and a cassette insertion slot for inserting the compact tape cassette with the tape surface thereof directed to the right, viewing toward the operating board, into the tape player; said disc insertion slot and the cassette insertion slot being disposed one above another with a width center of the disc insertion slot in the width thereof set to a position leftwardly of a width center of the cassette insertion slot in the width thereof in the operating board, viewing toward the operating board, and with the disc insertion slot set at an upper position than that of the cassette insertion slot; said disc drive motor being disposed forwardly of the tape drive motor and with its bottom surface set to a level below the top surface of the tape drive motor; and the direction of a line connecting the width center of the disc insertion slot and the center of the disc drive motor being set to be coincident with the direction of the disc insertion.