Patent ID: 6442122
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A disc loading apparatus comprising:a frame member having a disc insertion opening formed therein; an opening lid movably mounted to said frame member for movement between a closed position covering said disc insertion opening and an open position allowing a disc to be inserted through said disc insertion opening along a disc passage path; wherein said opening lid has two longitudinal ends, first and second longitudinally extending sides, and first and second faces opposite each other, each of said first and second faces being defined between said first and second longitudinally extending sides, one of said first and second faces facing said disc insertion opening when said opening lid is in said closed position and the other of said first and second faces facing away from said disc insertion opening when said opening lid is in said closed position; wherein said first longitudinally extending side of said opening lid is sloped from each of said longitudinal ends of said opening lid toward a center portion of said first longitudinally extending side in a direction toward said second longitudinally extending side of said opening lid; wherein said opening lid is positioned relative to said disc insertion opening such that, with said opening lid in said closed position, upon insertion of the disc into said disc insertion opening along the disc passage path, the disc contacts against said one of said first and second faces of said opening lid at a contact location, pushes said opening lid from said closed position toward said open position and then slides against said first longitudinally extending side of said opening lid such that said opening lid contacts the disc only with point contact or line contact between said first longitudinally extending side of said opening lid and a peripheral edge of the disc.