Patent ID: 6977872

Claim:
A disk changer, comprising: a rotatable tray having a plurality of accommodation portions arranged in a ring-like configuration for accommodating a plurality of disk-type recording media therein such that major faces of said disk-type recording media oppose each other; a tray rotating mechanism for rotating said rotatable tray; detection means for detecting an address of each of said accommodation portions and detecting whether or not one of the disk-type recording media is present in each of said accommodation portions; a recording and/or reproduction section for recording and/or reproducing an information signal onto and/or from one of the disk-type recording media; a disk takeout mechanism for taking out one of the disk-type recording media accommodated in said accommodation portions of said rotatable tray and transporting the disk-type recording medium to said recording and/or reproduction section and for taking out the disk-type recording medium from said recording and/or reproduction section and transporting the disk-type recording medium to one of said accommodation portions; and control means for controlling said disk takeout mechanism in accordance with a result of the detection by said detection means to transport one of the disk-type recording media from a first one of said accommodation portions to said recording and/or reproduction section and controlling said tray rotating mechanism to rotate said rotatable tray to a position at which a second one of said accommodation portions which is a destination of movement of the disk-type recording medium opposes said disk takeout mechanism and further controlling said disk takeout mechanism to transport the disk-type recording medium from said recording and/or reproduction section to the second accommodation portion.