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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7681210 | Ejection apparatus for data storage device An exemplary ejection apparatus is provided for ejecting a data storage device out of a chassis. The ejection apparatus includes a pair of driving members, a connecting member, and an operating member. The operating member is slidably attached to the chassis and the... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7428740 | Recording medium drive apparatus and electronic equipment including the recording medium drive apparatus Disclosed herein is a recording medium drive apparatus adapted to use a recording medium cartridge. The recording medium drive apparatus includes a holder for holding the recording medium cartridge inserted, an eject lever supported to one of a pair of side plate po... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7362564 | Docking assembly for coupling a nonvolatile memory device to an electronic device An apparatus, system, and method for a tray to receive and couple a nonvolatile memory device to an electronic device disposed within a housing, are disclosed herein. ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7342744 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus having eject lever contact portion movable from an insertion operation level to a different level at the ejecting operation Disclosed herein is a disk recording and/or reproduction apparatus including, a chassis, a recording and/or reproduction means provided on the chassis so as to perform recording and/or reproduction on a disk cartridge, a cartridge holder movably provided on the chas... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7120096 | Disk apparatus In a case of recording data into an optical disk (100), a disk apparatus (10) rotates the optical disk (100) by a ZCLV system, and in a case of reading out the data from the optical disk, the disk apparatus rotates the optical disk by a ZCAV sys... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7111308 | Protection method for manual ejection operation of optical disk drive A protection method for manual ejection operation of optical disk drive is proposed. In the present method, a locked state is set when the optical disk drive is in normal rotation. The load-sensing switch would turn to the on position (stage) when the optical disk i... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7107599 | Recording medium driving device A driving device includes a holder movably carried by a chassis and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge that the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder. ... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7106663 | Disk recording/reproducing apparatus provided with magnet head ascending/descending mechanism The disk recording/reproducing apparatus of the present invention has a magnetic head which ascends or descends between a descent position proximate to a disk recording medium housed in a cartridge and an ascent position which is separate from the medium, an ascendi... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7100179 | Recording medium driving device A disc drive device for driving a disc held in a cartridge having a movable shutter includes a readout head radially movable on the disc and mounted on a chassis that also mounts a cartridge holder, a disc table on which the disc is loaded, a shutter mechanism for o... | 08/29/2006 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7083447 | Printed circuit board module and disconnect bow The invention relates to a printed circuit board module which may be connected by way of at least one plug-in connector with an underlying pcb base and is detachable from the base, whereby to disengage the plug-in connector provision is made for a U-shaped disconnec... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7023654 | Disk cartridge ejection mechanism and method A disk cartridge ejection mechanism in which a disk cartridge is moved from a loading position where recording and reproducing of information are possible for a medium in the cartridge to a cartridge-removable position where the cartridge can be taken out of an info... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7003786 | Recording medium driving device A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the di... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6993778 | Recording medium driving device A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the di... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6978468 | Recording medium driving device A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the di... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6977878 | Method of adjusting rotation speed of optical disc drive The present invention discloses a method of adjusting a rotation speed of an optical disc drive for a spindle motor controlled by a host to rotate and read an optical disc. First, it is determined whether the data read by the optical disc drive is in Mode 1 or Form ... | 12/20/2005 |
| 6934957 | Recording medium driving device A driving device includes a holder movably carried by a chassis and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge that the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder. ... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6631112 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus with disc cartridge loading, holding and ejection mechanism A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a base member at least having a rotation driving mechanism for rotationally driving a disc housed in a disc cartridge, a holder into which is inserted the disc cartridge and an ejection lever formed by an ... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6621785 | Cartridge loading mechanism for optical storage device Disclosed herein is a storage device including a turntable assembly movable between a raised position and a lowered position, a load plate adapted to move from a first position to a second position in concert with insertion of a carrier into the storage d... | 09/16/2003 |
| 5684655 | Loading unit, for data writing and/or reading device, having improved reliability in loading/ejecting operation and having function enabling easy ejection An ejecting mechanism ejects the data writing and/or reading device, which has been loaded on the loading unit, from the loading unit. A preventing mechanism prevents the data writing and/or reading device from either being loaded on or being ejected from... | 11/04/1997 |
| 5537271 | Apparatus for loading a data recording disk An apparatus comprises first and second levers supported to be rotatable on a holder which holds a disc cartridge. The first lever has one end provided with a abutting pin which abuts the shutter to open the window of the cartridge, and other end connecte... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5386407 | Apparatus for ejecting a caddy from a disk player Disclosed is an apparatus for ejecting a caddy from a disk player, the apparatus comprising a slider installed on the bottom of a lower case of the disk player capable of linear movement and elastically biased by a spring towards a caddy inlet, an eject p... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5355359 | Cartridge ejector of an optical disc player A cartridge ejector of an optical disc player, which softly accomplishes ejection of the cartridge in two steps. An elastic devices, which biases a lever which makes a shutter of the cartridge open and close and ejects the cartridge, is a torsion spring h... | 10/11/1994 |
| 5091898 | Playback/recording apparatus having a device for positively preventing entire cartridge from springing out of slot A playback/recording apparatus for a cartridge-contained disk includes a casing having a slot, a cartridge holder having an opening aligned with the slot, a conveyance mechanism for moving the cartridge holder and cartridge therein between a fully inserte... | 02/25/1992 |
| 4890276 | Optical disc player An optical disc player for playing optical discs includes a disc compartment for accommodating an optical disc, a disc holding mechanism for holding an optical disc accommodated in the disc compartment, a disc rotation drive mechanism for rotating the opt... | 12/26/1989 |
| 4109919 | Package actuated record extracting mechanism for a video disc player A record extracting mechanism for a video disc player includes latch arms which alternate between (1) a retracted condition permitting arrival of a package at a fully inserted position in the player, and (2) an extended condition precluding a removal from... | 08/29/1978 |
