Patent ID: 7810110

Claim:
A disc changer for a disc drive unit, including a disc accommodation section that accommodates a plurality of discs, the disc changer comprising: a swing arm that has a turntable for rotating a disc, which is at a waiting position when the disc changer is not operating, is swung to a position of a center hole of the disc in the disc accommodation section at a time of taking out the disc, and is swung into a reproducing position located between the waiting position and the position of the center hole of the disc at a time of reproducing content of the disc; and an auxiliary arm that supports the swing arm by being swung from a waiting position to the reproducing position of the swing arm and being engaged with a front end of the swing arm, when the swing arm is swung to the reproducing position from the position of the center hole of the disc with the disc on the turntable at which the content of the disc is to be reproduced; wherein the auxiliary arm is swung and first enters a moving track of the front end of the swing arm when the swing arm returns to the disc content reproduction position by clamping a disc on the turntable, and is engaged with the swing arm in a direction to interrupt the swing operation of the swing arm when the swing arm has come to the disc reproducing position later.