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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7827570 | Cartridge locking mechanism and tray locking mechanism for cartridge drive apparatus A cartridge tray is supported to be movable relative to a frame and capable of receiving a cartridge inserted thereinto. The cartridge tray comprises a cartridge locking lever for locking the cartridge to the cartridge tray, and a lever guard for enabling the cartri... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7657900 | Recording and reproducing apparatus for photosensitive recording medium and cartridge thereof An apparatus for recording and reproduction of a photosensitive recording medium, which accommodates a cartridge, the cartridge including: a photosensitive recording medium; a cartridge body rotatably accommodating the photosensitive recording medium and having an o... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7533393 | Robotics for a data storage system A data storage and retrieval device utilizes a data cartridge recording and playback apparatus and has storage magazines for holding a plurality of data cartridges for use by the recording and playback apparatus. A cartridge shuttle moves the data cartridges between... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7506347 | Method of operating a disc drive and a host device A battery-operated, hand-held disc drive for an optical data storage disc contains a radio transceiver. Data read from the disc, for example a game or movie, are delivered to the transceiver and transmitted, preferably using a WiFi protocol, to a host device, such a... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7472405 | Apparatus system and method for using multiple detectors to conduct an inventory of a data storage library A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for conducting an inventory of a data storage library. The invention includes providing a plurality of data storage slots for storing data storage cartridges, providing an accessor having a plurality of detectors mounted... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7434238 | Optical disc apparatus An optical disc apparatus includes, as a raising/lowering mechanism for moving a second base constituting a unit mechanism portion pivotally about a fulcrum so as to raise or lower the second base with respect to a first base as a base of the optical disc apparatus,... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7367035 | Data recording device having a pressing mechanism A data recording device to and from which a memory cartridge accommodating memory cards that are data recording media can be attached and detached is provided. According to the data recording device, it is possible to firmly connect the memory cards loaded in the me... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7340753 | Disk drive A disk drive is adapted to a disk cartridge having a rotational member and a shutter interlocked with the rotational member. The drive includes a transporting portion for transporting the cartridge and a shutter driving mechanism, which includes a rack portion engag... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7330329 | Method and apparatus for controlling unload standby time of hard disk drive A method of controlling unloading of a hard disk drive, and more particularly, a method and an apparatus for controlling an unload standby time of a hard disk drive according to the accumulated number of unloading operations. The method includes: standing by for an ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7310804 | Apparatus to load a disc cartridge An apparatus to accommodate and load a disc cartridge in a drive includes a tray on which the disc cartridge is accommodated, a locking lever having a locking hook caught in a groove formed at a side wall of the disc cartridge when accommodated on the tray and which... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290270 | Optical disk apparatus A case body in which a wiring board and a drive unit are held is provided with vent holes and an exhaust hole near which a fan is provided. An air current setting element is made of an air current setting plate added to a fan holder and a transformer mounted on the ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7275252 | Cell phone or other portable handset containing microminiature optical disc drive A microminiature optical disc drive is mounted in a cell phone or other handheld portable device to provide a large data source for playing games, movies and other digital content on the device. The optical disc drive is manufactured to an extremely small form facto... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7269834 | Disc type recording and/or reproducing apparatus A disc type recording and/or reproducing apparatus automatically performs the opening and closing of a shutter provided on a cartridge housing an optical disc in its case, and prevents the above-mentioned opening and closing mechanism from affecting the cartridge af... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7231646 | Disk-drive device A disc drive unit capable of simply performing an opening and closing driving of shutters by rotation of an inner rotor of a disc cartridge using the inner rotor is provided. A disc drive unit is constituted so as to open and close shutters (9, 10) by rotatio... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7222351 | Shutter closing mechanism and disc driving apparatus In a disc cartridge, the shutter opening/closing operation is to be performed reliably. To this end, the distal ends of a first engagement member 75 and a second engagement member 79 provided to a base 66 are pivotally movable in a direction alo... | 05/22/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7089571 | Optical disc drive compatible with memory card slot A disc drive designed to hold a cartridge containing an optical data storage disk is compatible with a memory card slot in a host digital electronics device such as a PDA, for example a slot designed for a Type I CompactFlash card. The disc drive contains a body ass... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7058959 | Optical disc drive compatible with memory card slot A disc drive designed to hold a cartridge containing an optical data storage disk is compatible with a memory card slot in a host digital electronics device such as a PDA, for example a slot designed for a Type I CompactFlash card. The disc drive contains a body ass... | 06/06/2006 |
| 6975483 | Disk recording device for manufacturing hard disk drives A disk recording device to manufacture hard disk drives. This disk recording device includes a spindle to detachably hold a disk of a hard disk drive. A spindle motor rotates the spindle. A recording unit records data on a surface of the disk while moving over the s... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6826767 | Cartridge containing disk and device for recording or reproducing signal on or from the disk A cartridge has a shutter movable forward and rearward for exposing or alternatively enclosing a disk contained in a shell. The shell is inserted into a device provided with a tooth for opening the shutter and a spring piece fittable to the shutter and positioned at... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6091573 | Deployable drive for protruding rotatable data storage media A very compact drive and transducer system for removable rotational data storage media retains only a portion of the media in a housing from which drive and transducer mechanisms deploy. In the deployed position the media is held and rotated, while the tr... | 07/18/2000 |
| 5841752 | Disc drive unit A disc drive unit for driving a disc recording medium such as a magneto-optical disc accommodated in a disc cassette, comprises a chassis, a cassette holder having a pair of wall sections and moveable up and down between upper and lower positions with res... | 11/24/1998 |
| 5537370 | Magnetooptical-disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a 5.25 inch large capacity magnetooptical-disk An optical disk recording and reproducing apparatus for recording and reproducing information and which is capable of storing a large amount of information, transferring data at a high speed and supporting SCSI-1 and SCSI-2. The magnetooptical-disk record... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5532996 | Drive unit for optical memory device having a first housing enveloping a second housing A drive unit for use in an optical memory unit has a front panel, a drive mechanism, and sealing members. The front panel has an air vent and a slot for allowing passage of a cassette case containing a disk-shaped recording medium. The drive mechanism loa... | 07/02/1996 |
| 5521899 | Optical disk apparatus for mechanically restricting the distance between an optical disk and an optical head An optical disk cartridge and an optical disk apparatus wherein, whether or not an optical disk has a different thickness, the distances of a pair of optical heads to a pair of recording faces of the optical disk can be set readily with a high degree of a... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5517478 | Disc player for performing disc loading and ejecting in response to opening and closing of lid A disc player performs disc loading and ejecting while closing and opening the player lid. The disc player includes a housing having a first guide groove longitudinally formed on an inner side thereof, a deck including a turntable, a moving plate mounted ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5500843 | Information processing apparatus with movable spindle shafts An optical disk apparatus includes a turntable with a bearing surface, and a spindle motor for rotating the turntable. The spindle shaft has a cylindrical first shaft having an upper end flush with the bearing surface, and a second shaft having an upper e... | 03/19/1996 |
| 5416753 | Magneto-optical disk drive system with head position adjustability A magneto-optical disk drive system is provided with a housing and a disk cartridge for housing a magneto-optical disk therein. The disk cartridge is insertable into the housing, an optical head is disposed in the housing for movement in a first radial di... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5323371 | Disk storage in which direction of inserting disk is approximately orthogonal to direction of seeking by head A disk storage in which a first dimension in which a disk is inserted/ejected a disk is approximately orthogonal to a second dimension in which a head seeks. A housing which accommodates a disk has an opening portion via which a head seeks a desired track... | 06/21/1994 |
| 5060207 | Magneto-optical recording/reproducing apparatus A magneto-optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes a frame, a cartridge containing therein a magneto-optical recording disk, an optical head for applying an optical beam on the recording disk, an electromagnet for applying a bias magnetic field on... | 10/22/1991 |
| 5058094 | Disc loading apparatus A magneto-optical disc recording and/or reproducing apparatus records and/or reproduces a magneto-optical disc rotatably incorporated within a disc cartridge and in which a disc hub formed of a magnetizable metal plate is attached to a central portion of ... | 10/15/1991 |
| 4688127 | Magnetic recording disk cartridge with locking member A magnetic recording disk cartridge comprises a flexible recording disk having a cylindrical hub secured to the central portion thereof, and a casing in which the recording disk is accommodated. The cartridge is provided with a locking member comprising a... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4602299 | Recording apparatus with device for detecting the status of a recording medium A recording apparatus for use with a recording medium including a detecting device for detecting whether the recording medium is applicable for information recording and a preventing device responsive to the detecting device for preventing the recording m... | 07/22/1986 |
| 4310864 | Cartridge loading and unloading mechanism An improvement to allow easier detaching of a disk memory module from its magnetic attachment to the spindle of a front loading disk drive. In one such type of drive, manually pulling a door open actuates a track-mounted carrier which lifts the disk modul... | 01/12/1982 |
| 4272794 | Disc memory drive with improved cartridge handling A disk memory drive mechanism for accepting a disk memory module from a front-located port and conveying it to a seated position on the spindle, and for detaching it from the spindle and conveying it back to the loading port for removal. The module-convey... | 06/09/1981 |
