Patent ID: 6904605

Claim:
Scanning device ( 39 ) for storage media ( 25 ) whereby several storage media ( 25 ) being housed in a container ( 1 ), a storage medium ( 25 ) being coupled to a tray ( 5 ) of the container ( 1 ), which tray ( 5 ) is removed completely from container ( 1 ) for enabling scanning of the storage medium ( 25 ), the container ( 1 ) being inserted into the scanning device ( 39 ), an optical pickup ( 45 ) of the scanning device ( 39 ) being arranged on a mechadeck ( 44 ), the mechadeck ( 44 ) being moveable towards a first slide ( 197 ) of the tray ( 5 ) in its position removed from the container ( 1 ), a disk release ring ( 96 ) being coupled to the mechadeck ( 44 ) and being moveable towards or away from the tray ( 5 ) in its removed position, the disk release ring ( 96 ) being moveable in order to actuate a disk holder ( 91 ) of the tray ( 5 ), the disk release ring ( 96 ) having the shape of an open ring and being moveable towards the same side ( 197 ) of the tray ( 5 ) as the mechadeck ( 44 ).