Patent ID: 7234151

Claim:
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 a gear mechanism provided on a front portion of the casing oppositely to a rack provided on a lower surface of the tray, a slide bar arranged, on the front portion of the casing, slidably in a transverse direction orthogonal to the direction of moving the tray forward/backward, a guide pin projecting from the slide bar and fitting in a guide groove formed in the lower surface of the tray, and a tooth portion formed integrally to the slide bar so as to be engageable/disengageable with the gear mechanism, wherein the gear mechanism is driven on the basis of an unloading signal so that the slide bar is slid through the tooth portion engaged with the gear mechanism in a prescribed direction, and by pushing a slanted inner face of the guide groove using the guide pin, the tray is slightly moved forward so that the rack is engaged with the gear mechanism and the tooth portion is disengaged from the gear portion, thereby moving the tray forward through driving of the gear mechanism; the emergency mechanism includes a touching plate incorporated in the gear mechanism, a through-hole made, oppositely to the touching plate, in a front panel of the casing, and a guide plate extending from the vicinity of the through-hole to the touching plate, wherein a thin rod passed through the through-hole is guided by the guide plate so that the thin rod is brought into contact with a thin rod contact face of the touching plate, and by pushing in the touching plate, the slide bar is slid in the prescribed direction through the gear mechanism and tooth portion, thereby slightly moving the tray forward; 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.