Abstract: An optical disc reproduction apparatus includes a main body, a display unit, a two-axis hinge, and a battery pack. The two-axis hinge has a joint member to connect the two-axis hinge to the main body. The main body has not only a hinge mounting-housing portion to attach and house the joint member of the two-axis hinge but also a housing recess to house a battery housing of the battery pack on right and left sides of the hinge mounting-housing portion on a back end. The battery pack has a U-shaped recess in a center. The recess is located in a position corresponding to the hinge mounting-housing portion in the main body and has a width larger than that of the hinge mounting-housing portion in a rightward-leftward direction.

Abstract: This fixing structure for thin housings is so formed as to disengage an engaging projecting portion and an engaging recess portion from each other by moving an intersection between a first inclined portion and an end section along the first inclined portion while deflecting at least either the engaging projecting portion or the engaging recess portion when disengaging the engaging projecting portion and the engaging recess portion from each other.

Abstract: An optical disc reproduction apparatus as an electronic apparatus comprises a display unit mounted on a main body unit via a hinge unit. The main body unit comprises a main body case and a hinge connecting portion provided in a hinge housing portion formed in the main body unit. The hinge housing portion is recessed downward from its periphery in the main body case, and has an opening facing outward from the main body case. A main body-side joint member of the hinge unit is introduced into the hinge housing portion from outside the main body case in a state where upper and lower cases of the main body case are connected to each other (state where the main body unit is already assembled). The main body-side joint member, while housed in the hinge housing portion, is connected to the hinge connecting portion.

Abstract: An optical disc reproduction apparatus includes a main body, a display unit, a two-axis hinge, and a battery pack. The two-axis hinge has a joint member to connect the two-axis hinge to the main body. The main body has not only a hinge mounting-housing portion to attach and house the joint member of the two-axis hinge but also a housing recess to house a battery housing of the battery pack on right and left sides of the hinge mounting-housing portion on a back end. The battery pack has a U-shaped recess in a center. The recess is located in a position corresponding to the hinge mounting-housing portion in the main body and has a width larger than that of the hinge mounting-housing portion in a rightward-leftward direction.

Abstract: A tray drive mechanism has a simple structure, and yet both an optical disc clamping operation and a tray opening and closing operation can be driven by one feed motor. The tray drive mechanism comprises: a feed gear and a tray drive gear that are rotated by a feed motor; a rack member to mesh with the feed gear so as to be driven in direction to inner circumference of the optical disc; a plate trigger driven by the rack member so as to slide; and a cam slider to slide in linkage with the plate trigger. When the cam slider is slided in linkage with plate trigger so as to be driven in direction by the tray drive gear meshing with a rack, a boss of the cam slider pushes a slope portion of each of cam grooves and provided in a tray, so that the tray slides to cause a rack of the tray to mesh with the tray drive gear. Thus, the tray is opened and closed by the feed motor.

Abstract: In an optical disc apparatus, a lens holding body provided with an objective lens is mounted on a base body. The base body has a screw hole and is guided by a guide shaft. An adjusting screw screwed into the screw hole has a slidable portion formed by an annular groove portion and slidably fitting with a rail portion on a chassis side. Each screw thread of a male screw of the adjusting screw is divided into two half sections along the peripheral direction thereof in a manner that a screw thread as one side section and a screw thread as the other side section are slightly deviated positionally to each other in the axial line direction. The screw threads are made in contact with the two slanted surfaces of a female screw.

Abstract: A pickup apparatus 1 is directed to an apparatus for optically reading-out information on a disk 3 arranged in a disk player, and comprises a pickup 11, an LD 13, a half mirror 15, a photo detector 17, and a pickup frame 19. The 11 is for irradiating a light on the 3 and for receiving the light reflected from the 3. The 13 is for transmitting the light to the 11. The 15 is a plate shape member for reflecting the light outputted from the 13 and for transmitting the light to the 11, that the light from the 11 permeate. The light permeating through the 15 incidents on the 17. The 11, the 13, and the 17 are fixed on the 19 at predetermined positions. A side part of the 15 is fixed to the 19 at three points by using an adhesive agent.

Abstract: This chucking apparatus 1 is an apparatus for holding a disk 5 which has been placed on a turntable 3 of a disk player, and includes a magnet 13, a chuck disk 11, a chuck arm 17, first engaging faces 13b and second engaging faces 25c. The chuck disk 11 is arranged so as to be faced with the turntable 3, and adapted to hold the magnet 13. The chuck disk 11 is a disc-like member which has a plurality of claws 25 formed around the magnet 13 which has been held and projecting toward the turntable 3, and engaging parts 25a provided at distal end portions 25a of the plurality of claws 25 to be engaged with an outer circumference of the magnet 13. The chuck arm 17 holds the chuck disk 11 rotatably. The first and the second engaging faces 13b and 25c restrict the engaging parts 25a of the claws 25 from deflecting in a direction away from the magnet.

Abstract: A disk apparatus has a chucking mechanism including a receiving member and a disk pressing member respectively provided in an upper position and a lower position with respect to a disk tray. One longitudinal end portion of a drive chassis on which the disk pressing member is disposed is attached to a frame via first buffer members. A free end of the drive chassis is joined to a movable member, which is moved up and down as the movable member is guided by a guide hole of a guide plate provided in a position opposed to the free end of the drive chassis, via a second buffer member made of vibration-proof rubber. The movable member is formed of a hollow cylindrical shaft member, and a second buffer member is interposed in a press fitted state between the shaft member and the free end of the drive chassis.

Abstract: A tray drive mechanism has a simple structure, and yet both an optical disc clamping operation and a tray opening and closing operation can be driven by one feed motor.

Abstract: A disc rotating apparatus includes a turntable for placing thereon a disc such as CD, DVD. The disc is clamped by the turntable and the disc holding frame. The holding frame is formed, at its main body, with an annular groove. The annular groove is circumferentially partitioned by a plurality of partition walls to thereby provide a plurality of accommodating portions. Each of the accommodating portions accommodates therein one or two or more steel balls. Due to rotation of the turntable or disc, each steel ball is displaced within the accommodating portion, thereby correcting for an unbalanced state wherein a center of gravity of the disc is deviated from an axis of a rotary shaft of turntable.

Abstract: A rotary tray having a plurality of disk mounting sections is pivotally supported by a central shaft arranged on a tray support face of a casing, a rim protruding from a lower face of the rotary tray is movably set on a sliding face block arranged in an outer circumferential section of the tray support face, and disk mounted on a desired disk mounting section is opposed to an optical pickup when the rotary tray is intermittently rotated by a predetermined angle, and the sliding face block is engaged in a space formed between a recess step circumferential face, which is formed along an inner edge of an outer circumferential section of the tray support face, and a support frame integrally formed in the outer circumferential section and being opposed to the recess step circumferential face.

Abstract: A turntable driving device has a spindle motor 5, a bearing 7, and a wire spring 9. The spindle motor 5 has a rotation shaft 11 which is to be coupled to the turntable 3. The bearing 7 is placed on the lateral side of the rotation shaft 11, and has a pair of inclined faces 7a that are opened in the side of the rotation shaft 11 so as to sandwich the rotation shaft 11, and that are formed to be abuttable against the rotation shaft 11. The wire spring 9 is a member for urging the bearing 7 toward the rotation shaft 11.

Abstract: In an optical disc apparatus, a lens holding body provided with an objective lens is mounted on a base body. The base body has a screw hole and is guided by a guide shaft. An adjusting screw screwed into the screw hole has a slidable portion formed by an annular groove portion and slidably fitting with a rail portion on a chassis side. Each screw thread of a male screw of the adjusting screw is divided into two half sections along the peripheral direction thereof in a manner that a screw thread as one side section and a screw thread as the other side section are slightly deviated positionally to each other in the axial line direction. The screw threads are made in contact with the two slanted surfaces of a female screw.

Abstract: Lead wires (10) are soldered at their one ends respectively to lands (120) on a wiring board (100) while the other ends of the lead wires are connected to an electrical part mounted on a movable member (200). A portion of each of the lead wires (10) is passed through a U-shaped notch (130) in the wiring board (100), and a loop portion (16), formed at another portion of each lead wire (10), is loosely fitted on a projected piece portion (140) of the wiring board (100).

Abstract: A chucking apparatus 1 includes a chuck disk 11 and a chuck arm 17. The disk 11 is a disk lockable with a turn table 3. The arm 17 has an opening 33 through which the chuck disk 11 is insertable, and a holding part 31 where the disk 11 is rotatably arranged, plural first hooks 35 projecting inwardly radially from an edge of the opening 33, and a second hook 37 provided at the edge of the opening 33 for preventing the disk 11 in the part 31 from escaping outward. The hooks 35 allow insertion of the disk 11 in the part 31 and support the disk 11 in the part 31. The second hook 37 is shaped to have rigidity against a force received when the disk 11 tends to escape from the holding part than that against a force received when the disk 11 is mounted.

Abstract: A disk apparatus has a chucking mechanism including a receiving member and a disk pressing member respectively provided in an upper position and a lower position with respect to a disk tray. One longitudinal end portion of a drive chassis on which the disk pressing member is disposed is attached to a frame via first buffer members. A free end of the drive chassis is joined to a movable member, which is moved up and down as the movable member is guided by a guide hole of a guide plate provided in a position opposed to the free end of the drive chassis, via a second buffer member made of vibration-proof rubber. The movable member is formed of a hollow cylindrical shaft member, and a second buffer member is interposed in a press fitted state between the shaft member and the free end of the drive chassis.

Abstract: A rotary tray having a plurality of disk mounting sections is pivotally supported by a central shaft arranged on a tray support face of a casing, a rim protruding from a lower face of the rotary tray is movably set on a sliding face block arranged in an outer circumferential section of the tray support face, and disk mounted on a desired disk mounting section is opposed to an optical pickup when the rotary tray is intermittently rotated by a predetermined angle, and the sliding face block is engaged in a space formed between a recess step circumferential face, which is formed along an inner edge of an outer circumferential section of the tray support face, and a support frame integrally formed in the outer circumferential section and being opposed to the recess step circumferential face.

Abstract: A vibration-preventive support device, in which an inner cylindrical body is disposed within an outer cylindrical body and a vibration absorbing body is disposed in such a manner that the two ends thereof are respectively connected to the lower end side end edge of the outer cylindrical body and the upper end side end edge of the inner cylindrical body. At this time, the outer cylindrical body, inner cylindrical body and vibration absorbing body are formed in an integrally united body by molding elastic material, that is, rubber. The vibration preventive support device is arranged such that, in a first condition, the inner cylindrical body is entirely outside a volume encompassed by the outer cylindrical body and, in a second condition, the inner cylindrical body is disposed within the encompassed volume of the outer cylindrical body.

Abstract: This chucking apparatus 1 is an apparatus for holding a disk 5 which has been placed on a turntable 3 of a disk player, and includes a magnet 13, a chuck disk 11, a chuck arm 17, first engaging faces 13b and second engaging faces 25c. The chuck disk 11 is arranged so as to be faced with the turntable 3, and adapted to hold the magnet 13. The chuck disk 11 is a disc-like member which has a plurality of claws 25 formed around the magnet 13 which has been held and projecting toward the turntable 3, and engaging parts 25a provided at distal end portions 25a of the plurality of claws 25 to be engaged with an outer circumference of the magnet 13. The chuck arm 17 holds the chuck disk 11 rotatably. The first and the second engaging faces 13b and 25c restrict the engaging parts 25a of the claws 25 from deflecting in a direction away from the magnet.