Patent ID: 8146114
Filing Date: 2012-03-27
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A disk playback device that carries a disk loaded therein onto a turntable attached on a playback deck with a carrier roller to clamp the disk against the turntable with a clamp member, and that moves a lock member locking the playback deck with a lever member to unlock the playback deck, the lever member receiving the conveyance force of the carried disk to be rotated upon abutting against the outer periphery of the disk at the moment of clamping, wherein the clamp member has a boss shaft and a pin provided at different positions on a face thereof opposed to the turntable; wherein the lever member is formed of a flat plate, and has: a disk-detecting end against which the outer periphery of the carried disk abuts; a tip portion located on the side opposite from the disk-detecting end and abutting against the lock member; an arcuate hole located on the disk-detecting end side thereof, receiving the pin inserted therein, and having a cutaway groove positioned at the inner peripheral edge of the large diameter side thereof; and a long hole located on the tip portion side thereof, receiving the boss shaft inserted therein, and extending in a direction radial to the arcuate hole; the disk playback device further including an urging member being spanned between the lever member and the clamp member, and generating an urging force substantially parallel to the long hole to rotate the lever member about the boss shaft as a fulcrum in the opposite direction to a carrying direction of the disk; and wherein the lever member is, when the lever member has the conveyance force of the disk having abutted against the disk-detecting end exerted thereon, rotated in the carrying direction of the disk against the urging force of the urging member; thereby, the tip portion moves the lock member in the direction in which the lock by the lock member is released, the lever member is, when the lock member is moved off the tip portion before long, guided by the boss shaft inserted in the long hole to be moved by the urging force of the urging member; thereby, the disk-detecting end is moved off the disk clamped against the turntable, and also the pin fits into the cutaway groove of the arcuate hole to position the lever member.