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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7411793 | Optical disk device An optical disk device of the present invention has a main PC board carrying a semiconductor element and attached at the rear of a drawer to efficiently dissipate a heat generated from the semiconductor element. The drawer is formed of a material having good thermal... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7343607 | Driving mechanism of electronic instrument The driving mechanism has an instrument body formed with a recording medium inserting slot for inserting a recording medium into the instrument body. The driving mechanism moves a first operation unit and a second operation unit between a first position for covering... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342745 | Cartridge carrier A cartridge carrier has a base having a recessed plate, a top surface, and a bottom surface, an interposer board coupled to the base at the top surface, a motorized eject mechanism coupled to the interposer board and the base, a slider plate coupled to the base at t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340750 | Transmission assembly with a lock gate structure for an optical disc device for preventing pieces of an optical disc from escaping the optical disc device An optical disc device includes a budging mechanism, a transmission assembly, a disc holding down plate, and a lock gate structure. The budging mechanism is moved by mechanically interfering with the optical disc entering the working area of the optical disc device ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7315452 | Optical disk device An optical disk device of the present invention has a main PC board carrying a semiconductor element and attached at the rear of a drawer to efficiently dissipate a heat generated from the semiconductor element. The drawer is formed of a material having good thermal... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7298585 | Storage medium load and unload apparatus with an impact diverter A storage medium load and unload apparatus for diverting a storage medium insertion impact force is provided. The load and unload apparatus comprises a shuttle having a first pin with a first radius extending from a side surface of the shuttle and a protrusion havin... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295399 | Floppy disk drive A floppy disk drive includes a frame having a bottom portion and left and right walls and a casing for covering the frame. The casing includes an upper cover for covering an upper side of the frame and a lower cover for covering a lower side of the frame, in which t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7271979 | Flexible disk drive having an eject base usable as a cover In a flexible disk drive for a flexible disk, a main frame defines a receiving portion for receiving the flexible disk. The main frame has a principal surface which faces the receiving portion and extends in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257823 | Method and apparatus for preventing damage due to media faults in discs spinning at high speeds A system that prevents fragments of a disc from escaping from a drive. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the system comprises a drive and a fragment barricade affixed within the drive. The fragment barricade is positioned within the drive so as t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254821 | Dustcover device for data storage devices A dustcover device for protecting an optical disk drive (20) having a tray (22) includes a bezel (30), a dustcover member (40) and a coil spring (50) mounted to between the bezel and the dustcover member for driving the dustcover t... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7236331 | System and method to provide a ramp having a location which is transitioning from a first grade to a second grade for removing a read/write head from a media Methods to provide a ramp to remove a read/write head connected with a suspension from a media in accordance with the present invention can comprise calculating a grade of one or more surfaces having a plurality of progressively shallower grades. A transition betwee... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7233712 | Temperature-controlled flexible optical circuit for use in an erbium-doped fiber amplifier and method for fabricating the flexible optical circuit A temperature-controlled flexible optical circuit includes a length of pre-fabricated optical fiber secured to a partially flexible heater circuit for heating and maintaining the optical fiber at a substantially constant temperature. Heater circuit may also comprise... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7227718 | Front shutter attaching structure and flexible disk drive having the same A front shutter (13′) comprises arm portions (132, 133) formed at both ends of an upper side of a door member (131). While one shaft portion (136) is formed on one of the arm portions (132) through a positioning portion (134 | 06/05/2007 |
| 7164559 | Head actuator with elastic members oriented at obtuse angles relative to an arm and hard disk apparatus equipped with same A head actuator is made thinner without sacrificing its strength to thereby achieve the thinning of a hard disk apparatus. On the base end of each of two suspensions is provided a boss that protrudes in the direction of the side on which a magnetic head is provided,... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151646 | Flexible disk drive A flexible disk drive includes a case and a disk holder provided in the case. A flexible disk is mounted on the disk holder. A part of the disk holder abuts against an inner face of the case. Preferably, the part of the disk holder is a tip end portion of the disk h... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136259 | Frame structure and flexible disk drive having the same In order to provide a positioning mechanism that can be processed easily and accurately by press forming and a frame structure having the same, especially a main frame and a method of manufacturing the same, the invention provides a frame structure of the flexible d... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7123437 | Recording apparatus enabling replacement of disk cartridge A PCMCIA card type recording apparatus includes a housing having a seating section on which a disk cartridge is seated, a disk driving section disposed in the housing to rotatably drive a recording medium in the disk cartridge seated on the seating section, a record... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7104817 | Dust-proof structure for card connector in handheld electronic device A dust-proof structure (200) for an electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a case (208) having a slot (208a) aligned with a card connector (204) in the electronic device. The dust-proof structure includes a ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100174 | CD drive which will not damage an optical disk A CD drive includes an upper cover, a disk tray, a clamp, a push piece, and a guiding rod. The upper cover includes a guiding track and the disk tray is installed below the upper cover in a slidable manner. Additionally, the clamp is installed on the upper cover in ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7088643 | Magneto optical disc drive having insertion restricting and locking portions A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing signals on and/or from a recording medium includes a recording and/or reproducing portion for recording and/or reproducing signals on and/or from the recording medium, a carrying portion for c... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7032234 | Cartridge and drive unit for preventing erroneous insertions of the cartridge A cartridge and a drive unit that drives a cartridge and has an insertion opening into which the cartridge is inserted are provided. The drive unit includes a shutter which opens and closes the insertion opening, and a mechanism for locking a close state of the shut... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6993825 | Tilt adjusting method for guide shafts in a recording medium driving apparatus A tilt adjusting method for a recording medium driving apparatus including a linear driving device including first and second parallel guide shafts. The method provides a flat mirror on a turntable, an auto-collimator, and a skew angle adjusting jig including an opt... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993775 | Tray locking apparatus of disc drive A tray locking apparatus of a disc drive to lock a tray on which a disc is placed and which is inserted into a main body of a disc drive. The tray locking apparatus includes a locking boss provided at the main body, a locking plate installed at the tray to slide and... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6961946 | Disc drive loading device A disc-loading device includes a loading arm, a holding device, a guiding rail, and a guiding slot. The loading arm has a first end and a second end. The first end is connected to and movable along the guiding rail. The second end has a roller inset into the guiding... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6947254 | Interchangeable cartridge data storage system for devices performing diverse functions A system for exchanging digital data among a plurality of hand-held computer devices. Digital signals are written by a first hand-held device to a mini-cartridge that mini-cartridge is inter-operable among a class of hand-held devices, each of which is equipped with... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6934119 | Disk drive A disk drive apparatus according to the present invention includes a horizontal guide mechanism and a vertical guide mechanism, which are disposed between a frame (10) and a slider (60) for slidably guiding the slider (60). The horizontal guide ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6931648 | Method and apparatus for preventing damage due to media faults in discs spinning at high speeds A system that prevents fragments of a disc from escaping from a drive. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the system comprises a drive and a fragment barricade affixed within the drive. The fragment barricade is positioned within the drive so as t... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6922839 | Cartridge for protecting optical recording media There is provided an optical recording media cartridge, which is provided with a case that accommodates the optical recording media and that has an opening, and a shutter that is attached to the case and that is movable between a first position at which the shutter ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6906891 | Flexible disk drive having a frame structure comprising a main frame and a sub-frame of a lower cover A main frame has a size where only high precision parts are mounted thereon and has structure where a front portion of a frame is deleted. A lower cover, which covers a lower surface of the main frame, has a function as a sub-frame mounting low precision parts corre... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6901650 | Adjusting method for an optical disc apparatus A relative adjustment between an optical disc rotating mechanism and an optical pickup is adjusted by rotating a rotary member against a biasing force of an engaging projection. As the rotary member is rotated, the projection is slid for movement on an inclined surf... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6876516 | Disk drive having a reinforcing arrangement against an external stress applied thereto In a disk drive for using a disk cartridge including a magnetic disk, a reinforcing arrangement is coupled to a main frame, a main board fixed to the main frame, and a head assembly which is movable in a radial direction of the magnetic disk. The reinforcing arrange... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6873493 | Disk drive having a reinforcing arrangement against an external stress applied thereto In a disk drive for using a disk cartridge including a magnetic disk, a reinforcing arrangement is coupled to a main frame, a main board, and a disk receiving/ejecting mechanism which is for receiving and ejecting the disk cartridge. The reinforcing arrangement resi... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6868049 | Method and system for accessing multiple rows of media objects in an automated storage library using a single track robotic mechanism A method and system for accessing media objects in an automated storage library using a robotic mechanism included mounting the robotic mechanism to a horizontally arranged track arranged in the same plane as first and second horizontal rows of media object storage ... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6845415 | Computing system capable of controlling disk loading and disk unloading operations of an optical disk drive A computing system is adapted for use with an optical disk drive, and includes a motherboard and a control key. The motherboard is adapted to be coupled electrically to the optical disk drive. The control key is coupled electrically to the motherboard, and is operab... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6807026 | Disk drive having a structure for preventing a front shutter from coming off from a main frame A projecting portion is formed on an edge, which provides a notch for an eject button, of a front shutter of an FDD. The projecting portion projects toward the eject button. The eject button provides a cavity for canceling interference between the projecting portion... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6804082 | Disk drive having a front shutter attaching structure capable of preventing a front shutter from coming off from a main frame A front shutter attaching structure comprises flanges formed on peripheral surfaces of coaxial pivots of a front shutter and hooks formed at a cover for covering an upper side of a main frame. The front shutter is attached to the main frame by inserting of the pivot... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6785091 | Interchangeable cartridge data storage system for devices performing diverse functions A system for exchanging digital data among a plurality of hand-held computer devices. Digital signals are written by a first hand-held device to a mini-cartridge that mini-cartridge is inter-operable among a class of hand-held device, each of which is equipped with ... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6738221 | Magnetic recording unit with lid A disk drive motor (5) for driving and rotating a recording medium (disk), a head (57) for recording or playing back information to/from this disk, and a head drive mechanism for driving the head, are disposed inside a case body (15, 16) of the ... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6690574 | Electronic apparatus An electronic apparatus includes a moving support member moving in a back-and-forth direction of the electronic apparatus, an upper-end support member for supporting an upper end of a front panel in a movable manner, and a lower-end support member support... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6667941 | Apparatus for loading and ejecting recording medium A recording medium loading apparatus having a carrier unit 70 for transferring the disc 11, 12 or disc cartridge 13 between an eject position and a loaded position by moving within a holder 40. When the carrier unit 70 transfers the disc cartridge 13, the... | 12/23/2003 |
