US 11,817,120 B2
Optical disc drive and electronic equipment
Kenji Hirose, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/913,337
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Mar. 18, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/011178
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/200231, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-061437 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0143516 A1, May 11, 2023
Int. Cl. G11B 17/04 (2006.01)
CPC G11B 17/0404 (2013.01) 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An optical disc drive comprising:
a member provided with an insertion port;
a spindle motor disposed behind and away from the insertion port;
a conveying roller configured to be movable between a first roller position and a second roller position, configured to contact an optical disc inserted through the insertion port and convey the optical disc toward a position of the spindle motor when the conveying roller is in the first roller position, and configured not to contact the optical disc when the conveying roller is in the second roller position;
a conveying roller operation member configured to be movable between a first operation member position and a second operation member position, configured to place the conveying roller in the first roller position when the conveying roller operation member is in the first operation member position, and configured to place the conveying roller in the second roller position when the conveying roller operation member is in the second operation member position;
a loading motor;
a first transmission mechanism configured to transmit rotation of the loading motor to the conveying roller;
a second transmission mechanism configured to transmit the rotation of the loading motor to the conveying roller operation member; and
a mechanism configured to engage with each of the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism and to distribute the rotation of the loading motor simultaneously to the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism.