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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185919 | Optical disk device with a precise ejection position of a disk tray An optical disk device which highly precisely positions a disk tray in an ejection position is provided. A controller of an optical disk device drives the disk tray from a storage position toward an exposed position. When a position immediately before the ejection p... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8104050 | Optical disk apparatus having brake pad located near to front end of chassis block Disclosed is a slim-type high speed rotation optical disk apparatus having a turn table for loading an optical disk thereon. As compared with conventional ones, a brake pad is located near to the front end so that the brake pad comes into tight contact with a side o... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8060894 | Disk device having disk tray A disk device includes a disk tray, a spindle motor, a chucking section, a loading motor, a tray-in switch, a tray-out switch and a loading motor drive voltage generating section. The loading motor drive voltage generating section generates a drive voltage for the l... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7784067 | Optical disk apparatus An optical disk apparatus includes a frame 2 which receives internal devices and can receive an optical disk 27, a tray 5 on which the optical disk 27 is rotatably mounted, a rail 4 which supports the tray so as to be moved between... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7614061 | Tray loading/unloading apparatus A tray loading apparatus includes a tray, a motor, a drive circuit. The tray is movable between a load position and an unload position. The motor is constructed and arranged for bringing the tray to move from the unload position to the load position. The drive circu... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7386866 | Disk drive with improved tray control A disk drive comprising a tray (TR) for receiving a disk, the tray (TR) being supported for movement between a first position within a casing (CS) of the disk drive and a second position projecting from the casing (CS), an electric motor for moving the tray (TR) bet... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7349313 | Clamper magnetism test method for a tray-type optical drive A magnetism test method for a tray-type optical drive is disclosed. A preliminary input voltage is provided to a DC motor of the tray-type optical drive for performing a preliminary ejection on a tray and a magnetic clamper of the tray-type optical drive. Then, a te... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7350218 | Optical-disk drive and optical-disk ejection control method An optical disk drive comprises a drive body, a spindle motor, an optical pickup device, a sled motor, a tray, a loading motor, and a controller. When the loaded optical disk is ejected, the controller controls the sled motor and the loading motor so that the return... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7341339 | Tray transferring controller, recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus In a printer capable of performing recording on a recording medium such as an optical disk, a tray on which the recording medium is set is sent upstream or downstream by being nipped by a driving transfer roller rotatably driven by a motor and a driven transfer roll... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7334239 | Optical disc apparatus In an optical disc apparatus, a harsh blow sound due to collision of first stoppers of a tray and third stoppers of a main chassis when the tray reaches to a terminal position of drawing thereof is reduced. When a second stopper of the tray contacts with the front e... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328441 | Optical disc drive An optical disc drive with a positioning mechanism suitable for reading data from an optical disc is provided. The optical disc drive comprises a casing, a tray, a reading module and a rail. The tray is disposed inside the casing. The tray has a first positioning pa... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7296277 | Disk rotation device A disk rotation device rotationally driving a disk includes a housing body, a conveyance body installed in the housing body so as to be capable to move between a first position positioned inside of the housing, the first position being where the disk is rotation dri... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290269 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus A plurality of switches are pressed by a single switch operating member. A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a switch mechanism operable when a pair of turn arms is turned so as to be spread away from each other by a disk inserted from a disk slot. The... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7282884 | Procedure for driving a moveable part of an item of furniture A method of driving a moveable part and, in particular, a drawer by a drive unit and, in particular, an electric drive unit. At least over a partial length of track (S2), forming part of the total track traversed by the moveable part, the force exerted on... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266053 | Tray-out control method for moving out a loading tray of an optical drive The present invention discloses a tray-out control method for moving out a loading tray of an optical drive. A first forcing function is applied to the loading tray to overcome a lesser magnetic attraction when an optical disk is placed on the loading tray. A second... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7234151 | Disk player A touching plate of the emergency mechanism, which is located near the front panel of a casing, is rotatably pivoted, an arm is protruded from the touching plate so that it is opposite to a lever protruded from the end of a slide bar, a nozzle having a prescribed le... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7168079 | Disk apparatus with improved driving mechanism A disk apparatus includes a tray that moves with respect to a chassis fixed to an apparatus body to carry a disk, a drive unit that moves in a direction substantially orthogonal to the carrying direction of the tray with respect to the chassis to mount or dismount t... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7151717 | Recording medium transport device and image forming apparatus A recording medium transport device has: a pair of transport roller units which nip and transport a recording medium and which are disposed at an upstream side and a downstream side of a recording area respectively, the transport roller unit in the upstream side inc... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7143423 | Dislocation preventing apparatus in disk player A disk player includes: a housing; a motor disposed in the housing; a disk tray having a projecting piece at a rear end on each side edge thereof; and dislocation preventive pieces disposed at a front end side of the housing and projecting from the housing so as to ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7099113 | Disc braking device A disc braking device is utilized in an optical disc drive. The disc braking device is installed on a disc tray of an optical disc drive. Without being affected by an covering component or the location of the disc braking device, the disc braking device makes a disc... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7086729 | Tray transferring controller, recording apparatus and liquid ejecting apparatus In a printer capable of performing recording on a recording medium such as an optical disk, a tray on which the recording medium is set is sent upstream or downstream by being nipped by a driving transfer roller rotatably driven by a motor and a driven transfer roll... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7086068 | Optical disc apparatus which determines tray movement speeds In an optical disc apparatus, a loading operation and an unloading operation are performed a plurality of times while changing the movement speed of a tray. A movement speed of the tray at which a shock that is produced during a movement of the tray is smaller than ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7019965 | Ejector mechanism and a carrier including same An ejector mechanism. The ejector mechanism includes an ejector pair, pivotally mounted on a surface of the carrier. Each ejector of the ejector pair comprises an ejector slot that is engageable with an ejector pin that is located on a chassis, which accommodates th... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6981269 | Recording medium driving apparatus A recording medium driving apparatus is provided. A signal from the tray position sensor 13 is provided to the connection point E to control a mute signal generator 80a in the driver IC. When the system controller is abnormal, the potential of t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6963519 | Disc device A disc device comprising a transfer unit operable to provide a transferring force to a disc inserted from the outside to transfer the disc into a storage area in the device, a sensor unit for detecting the position of the inserted disc, and a control unit for contro... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6922378 | Method and apparatus for controlling the disk tray by detecting the back emf force This invention relates specifically to a method for controlling the disc tray of a data reproducing device, in which the data reproducing device comprises at least a tray motor for driving the disc tray. The method comprises the following steps, including: a step fo... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6654335 | Optical drive loader with a manual disk ejecting mechanism The invention presents an optical drive loader with a manual disk ejecting mechanism comprising a frame, a disk receiving apparatus, a speed reduction apparatus, a driving apparatus, and a disk ejecting actuating part. Relying on the disk ejecting actuati... | 11/25/2003 |
| 6643241 | Optical disk reproducing apparatus In an optical disk reproducing apparatus 1 in which a mounting tray slides to a projected position and a contained position with respect to the apparatus main body, to slide the mounting tray at a series of continuous predetermined speeds independent of c... | 11/04/2003 |
| 5771217 | Magneto-optical disk apparatus having a ejector arm and magnetic field generating means mounted on a stationary base A disk apparatus in which the thickness is suppressed. A recording/reproducing medium containing a disk rotatably in a hard case is moved substantially in a horizontal direction through an opening of the base of the disk apparatus for insertion and ejecti... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5574711 | Device for driving trays in disk players A disk transport mechanism for moving disks into a disk-player transports disks between an eject position and a playback or storage position inside the disk-player. The tray passes through an opening in the disk-player when it moves from the eject positio... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5123005 | Disc tray loading mechanism for reducing loading and unloading mechanical shocks A loading mechanism of a disc tray onto which recording medium discs such as compact discs, laser discs, or the like are set and which moves between a pull-out position at which the disc tray was pulled out of an outer casing and a pull-in position at whi... | 06/16/1992 |
| 4893295 | Front loading disk player A front loading disc player is disclosed which comprises a housing, a play mechanism including a turntable, a carrier for carrying a disc to be played, and a projection/accommodation mechanism for moving the carrier so as to project/accommodate the carrie... | 01/09/1990 |
