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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7116465 | Micromirror device There is provided a micromirror device, which is provided with a mirror layer including a mirror surface which is supported to be rotatable around a first axis passing through a center of the mirror surface, and an upper substrate having transparency including a fir... | 10/03/2006 |
| 4823336 | Optical disk drive An optical disk drive includes an optical disk, a pair of guide shafts, a carriage having an optical pick-up movable in the radial direction of the disk as guided by the guide shafts. A plurality of rollers are rotatably mounted on the carriage so that a ... | 04/18/1989 |
| 4301528 | Tone arm mechanism A tone arm system for a record player is provided having servo-controlled record warp compensation means including a moving coil motor for driving the tone arm vertically and a moving magnet motor for driving the tone arm horizontally in response to servo... | 11/17/1981 |
| 4266785 | Stylus lifting/lowering actuator with improved electromagnetic motor A playback system for recovering prerecorded information from a disc record through the use of a stylus mounted on a stylus arm includes a stylus arm lifting-lowering device. The lifting-lowering device uses a permanent magnet mounted on a leaf spring. Th... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4222574 | Radial-tracking programmable record player In a record player, a phonograph record disc is supported in a playing position on a turntable which is rotatably drivable at a selected speed about an axis. The disc, in its playing position, is engageable with a stylus carried by a transducer cartridge ... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4166621 | Programmable record changer A programmable phonograph record changer which provides automatic sound track selection for each of a plurality of records played sequentially by the record changer. The record changer includes an electro-optic scanner mounted on the pickup arm for sensin... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4142729 | Gramophone equipment A record player has a record track selection system using sensing means to scan a record to identify selected record tracks, the sensing means feeding signal processing circuitry having a gain or threshold adapted to individual record characteristics as d... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4118039 | Tonearm position setting apparatus The tonearm position setting apparatus for a record player is designed for use with a linearly movable tonearm base. A light source is movable substantially parallel to the movement direction of the tonearm base. A position setting device is interlocked w... | 10/03/1978 |
| 3977684 | Playback apparatus, in particular a video player A playback apparatus, in particular a video player, for playing back round disks, which are provided with information tracks which are optically readable with the aid of a read beam obtained from a light source, and having a housing which comprises a subs... | 08/31/1976 |
