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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181191 | Media processing device and control method for a media processing device A media processing device does not execute a media transportation process if the height of media stacked in a media storage unit is at an over capacity level, and reliably prevents problems such as damage to the media transportation mechanism caused by collision wit... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8166493 | Media processing device including host computer capable of measuring the height of blank media The media storage status of a target medium stacker is reported to the user through a host computer. In response to a height measurement command for measuring the height of blank media stacked in a blank media stacker and processed media stacked in a processed media... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8156511 | Disc apparatus A shutter member is provided so as to be capable of moving in association with a roller bracket. The shutter member rotates by a predetermined range in association with the rotation of the roller bracket, and then a projection of the shutter member is pressed in a Y... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8074235 | Control method for a media transportation mechanism, and a media processing device A media transportation mechanism control method and a media processing device can accurately detect the last disc or other media stored in a media storage unit. A transportation arm 36 is lowered to the media stacker 21, the transportation arm 36 | 12/06/2011 |
| 8051438 | Method for transporting discs, disc transporting device and drawer type disc transporting device thereof A method for transporting discs, A disc transporting device and a drawer type disc transporting device are disclosed. The disc transporting device comprises a lifting mechanism, a swing mechanism and a control element, wherein the lifting mechanism further comprises... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8042126 | Disc player There is provided a disc player which can be reduced in the number of parts and in cost, and which can be designed to be thin and provided with a function of sufficiently self-holding a lock state. A drive unit 9 is constructed by a base plate 13 | 10/18/2011 |
| RE42763 | Recording and/or reproducing device for disks In an on-vehicle disc player having a disc elevator (22) for making a plurality of trays (2) each having a CD placed on it stacked one over another in the vertical direction move in the stacking direction, there is provided plate springs (2e) fo... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7966627 | Emergency ejecting apparatus for optical disc drive The present invention discloses an optical disc drive including a pickup head for reading data from a disc; a spindle motor for supporting and rotating the disc; a loading/ejecting apparatus for loading or ejecting the disc; and an emergency ejecting apparatus. The ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7941815 | Automatic devices, equipment and methods for handling objects According to some embodiments, CD/DVDs are transported to/from a horizontal tray of a disk-processing unit (e.g. a disk drive) by applying a vertical lifting force to each disk at an off-center disk engagement location to incline the disk toward the tray, maintainin... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7908612 | Emergency ejecting apparatus for optical disc drive The present invention discloses an optical disc drive including a pickup head for reading data from a disc; a spindle motor for supporting and rotating the disc; a loading/ejecting apparatus for loading or ejecting the disc; and an emergency ejecting apparatus. The ... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7870570 | Disk elevator system Systems and methods are provided for transporting disks. In one implementation, a disk handling system is provided. The disk handling system includes a dispenser operable to dispense individual optical disks and one or more drives. The disk handling system also incl... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7844979 | Disc player A disc player 10 is equipped with a positioning unit 14 that has step plate 54 and positions a disc 1, a clamper unit 15 that has a clamp plate 66 and carries out a clamp operation on the disc positioned by the positioning u... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7827568 | Integration of structural and cosmetic bezel having a disk guide for a slot loading optical drive An optical drive bezel assembly for coupling to an optical drive. The optical drive bezel assembly includes a functional bezel having a first opening to receive an optical disk and a first plurality of attachment features. The functional bezel is coupled to the opti... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7752641 | Disk apparatus A disk apparatus includes a bracket, a loading motor, a gear unit, and a slider cam. The loading motor is attached to the bracket. The gear unit is installed in the bracket and is connected with the loading motor for power transmission from the loading motor. The sl... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7730503 | Dividing device in disc accommodation section in disc changer A dividing device in a disc accommodation section of a disc changer decreases the stroke of dividing the disc accommodation section, thereby making the disc changer small. The dividing device is configured by having three levers fitted to a rotation axis. A first le... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7716691 | Disk-storing disk device with laterally disposed switchover member A disk-storing disk device includes a mechanism base provided at a position beyond the perimeter of a disk stored in a disk storing region provided vertically within a middle portion of a casing, and a switchover member which moves following an arc path is provided ... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7716690 | Disk-storing disk device with restricting mechanism A disk-storing disk may include multiple supporting members for supporting disks and being stacked in the axial direction; a supporting member selecting mechanism for moving a supporting member to a selecting position; a driving unit having a rotational driving unit... | 05/11/2010 |
| 7698716 | Optical media, read inhibiting agents and methods of making and using same Apparatuses, products, devices and methods of manufacture consistent with the invention include optically readable media with at least one mechanism, chemical, agent, and/or process for limiting the time period that at least a portion of encoded information can be r... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7676818 | Disk unit A disk unit comprising a limit switch, the limit switch being adapted to operate when a tip of a guide arm pivots to excess in a centripetal direction relative to a predetermined position at which it should stop while supporting a side portion of a small-diameter di... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7571449 | Disk changer device and barrier mechanism thereof A barrier mechanism, which is often utilized in a disk changer device, is disclosed herein, in which the barrier mechanism includes two wheels and a barrier belt loop. The two wheels are respectively installed on a top terminal and a bottom terminal of an edge of th... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7568206 | Disc changer A disc changer comprises a housing, a disc box, a selecting mechanism, an elevating mechanism, and a driving device. The housing has at least one oblique slot in each side wall. Projections of the oblique slots are interlaced to each other. The disc box fabricated i... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7516462 | Transmission mechanism for disk driving system The present invention provides a transmission mechanism for disk player driving systems, mainly improves the disadvantages of the currently available technology, such as complicated structure and high production cost. The present invention includes a slot for insert... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7487518 | Disk loading apparatus and method Disk loading apparatus and method are provided. The disk loading apparatus includes a main chassis to which a transferring roller for transferring a disk is installed, a transmission unit installed to the main chassis for transferring a power to the transferring rol... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7484227 | Protection of operation of disc drive against the application of external oscillation A disc changer has a protector which protects the operation of the disc changer even when an oscillation is applied to the disc changer, without adding a new oscillation sensor to the disc changer. In the disc changer that takes out a desired disc from a stocker wit... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7475409 | Disc changer device In a disc changer provided with a driving force transmission mechanism using a crank arm, the size of the crank arm is reduced as much as possible and the smooth movement of the tray is realized. The crank arm (7) is rotated by a driving force of a drive moto... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7469412 | Disk misinsertion prevention mechanism and disk apparatus including disk misinsertion prevention mechanism An arm member is rotated when a disk is inserted into a disk apparatus from a disk insertion port while a circumferential edge of the disk abuts on a protrusion of the arm member for intercepting misinsertion of the disk. The arm member detects whether the disk inse... | 12/23/2008 |
| RE40598 | Memory storage disk handling system having a servo-driven elevator pin A memory storage disk handling system includes a housing, an elevator pin mounted on the housing for lifting disks, a servo motor with a cam arm. The servo motor rotates to pivot the cam arm, which cams against the elevator pin to lift the elevator pin. ... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7454767 | Memory storage disk handling system A disk dispenser including a spindle having a first end and a second end, the second end having a disk support foot arranged to support a stack of disks, wherein the disk support foot is movable from an extended position at which a portion of the disk support foot i... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444650 | Disk apparatus A disk apparatus includes a playback unit having a reading unit for reading information recorded on a disk, and a turntable on which the disk is placed, the playback unit being movable between a lateral side of a disk conveying path and a central portion of the disk... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7430749 | Disk conveyance apparatus and support means for supporting conveyance apparatus A disk apparatus includes a supporting mechanism inwardly projecting from an inner surface of a wall of a housing, the wall having a disk insertion/ejection opening, a disk conveying mechanism that is supported by the supporting mechanism so that the disk conveying ... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428739 | Disc release apparatus for disc player A disc release apparatus for a disc player. The disc release apparatus includes: a slide plate installed on a main chassis, so that the slider plate is moved in a direction transverse to a transfer direction of a disc by being linked with the slider; and a linkage u... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7421717 | Optical disc reading apparatus with multiple loading/ejecting approaches An optical disc reading apparatus includes a main body, a first disc entrance and a second disc entrance. The main body has a disc-reading room therein for accommodating the optical disc. The first disc entrance is arranged on a first face of the main body for provi... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7373648 | Disk recording and/or reproducing device A recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a disk transfer mechanism, a mechanical chassis lifting/lowering mechanism, and a gear switching mechanism. The disk transfer mechanism transfers a disk onto a disk table with a motor. The disk transfer mechanism has a ro... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367033 | Device for scanning a disc-shaped data carrier, comprising a transport system for transporting the data carrier Device for scanning a disc-shaped data carrier, comprising a transport system for transporting the data carrier. In the case of a device (1) for scanning a disc-shaped data carrier (2), with a pivotable data carrier plate (4), which features a r... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360812 | Automatic device, equipment and methods for handling objects An automatic device for handling objects comprises gripper blades attached to a guide, an actuator connected to an external connection transporting the device, and a switching mechanism. The switching mechanism alternately changes the state of the pickup device betw... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360225 | Disc holding mechanism There is provided a disc holding mechanism capable of easily loading and unloading optical discs having different shapes on a disc tray, in which an optical disc is securely fixed and held on the disc tray and the load applied to the disc when it is loaded and unloa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360226 | Disk player A drive gear (30) is rotated by a motor (28). Drive force from a loading transmission gear (36), which constantly engages the drive gear (30), is constantly transmitted to a loading mechanism (20). In a pick-up moving mechanism ( | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355930 | Method of opening/closing a disk tray in a disk drive A method for opening/closing a disk tray of a disk drive. The method includes the steps of when a first event occurs, sending a load/unload command to the disk drive, to which the disk drive responds with a second or third event, and resends the load/unload command ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356825 | Disk carrying apparatus The disk carrying apparatus includes a lifting portion which carries a disk onto a turntable, a chuck which holds the carried disk on the turntable, and a third switch which detects an intermediate position between a holding operation start position where the chuck ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353523 | Disk guide device with turnable guide lever A disk guide device for use with different diameter disks is disclosed. The disk guide device may include a transporting roller for transporting a disk to a chucking position, a pair of detection arms capable of abutting with a periphery of an inserted disk, a biasi... | 04/01/2008 |
