Patent ID: 6990675

Claim:
A recording medium playback device comprising: a recording medium accommodation unit for accommodating a plurality of recording mediums in a stacked array; a carriage chassis having at least a pickup, a turntable and a pickup moving means, said pickup moving means being adapted to move said pickup in the direction of playing back the recording medium; a moving means for moving said carriage chassis from a standby position to a position between the recording mediums accommodated in said recording medium accommodation unit to play back the recording medium; and a recording medium loading means for loading the recording medium inserted from outside into said recording medium accommodation unit; wherein when said carriage chassis is in the standby position, said pickup is situated on a vertical tangential plane which is tangent to an outer circumferential edge of the recording medium on said carriage chassis side at a point where the outer circumferential edge is intersected by a loading center line of the recording medium when the recording medium is completely loaded in said recording medium accommodation unit by said recording medium loading means, and wherein an outer circumferential edge on said carriage chassis side of said completely loaded recording medium overlaps an arc-shaped side of said pickup when said pickup is in a standby position.