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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166494 | Electronic device having optical disc drive An electronic device with a built-in optical disc drive includes a casing, an optical disc drive, a first gear rack, a driving mechanism, and a transmitting mechanism. The casing comprises an upper plate and a base, and the upper plate defines an opening. The optica... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8136130 | Portable media player The present invention provides a portable media player, such as a portable DVD player. The portable media player has a clamshell type design, including a base portion and an openable cover portion. The openable cover portion includes a display screen, such as an LCD... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8082559 | Moveable in-vehicle apparatus operable by multiple users Disclosed herein is an in-vehicle apparatus including, an apparatus body installed in a vehicle compartment, and a front panel disposed at a front surface of the apparatus body and provided with an operating member for operating the apparatus body, wherein a drive m... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8056096 | Optical disc drive An optical disc drive includes a main body, a cover, an extension, and an elastic element. The cover includes a pivoting portion and is pivotably connected to the main body via the pivoting portion. The extension is connected to the pivoting portion. The cover is ad... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8042128 | Slot-in optical disk drive The invention is to provided an emergency ejection device for a slot-in optical drive, which utilizes a feeding motor to rotate a transmission shaft from one end of the transmission shaft without self-locking. The other end of the transmission shaft extending to the... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8015576 | Optical disk drive with protection design against broken disk An optical disk drive with a protection design against a broken disk comprises the following devices of: a chassis; an upper cover mounted above the chassis; a tray mounted between the chassis and the upper cover for supporting an optical disk; a faceplate mounted o... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009969 | Disk unit-integrated display A disk unit-integrated display includes a door member opening and closing when projecting and housing a disk tray, and including a door portion and an arm portion for rotating the door portion, and a housing including an opening for projecting and housing the disk t... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8010974 | Disk apparatus A disk apparatus includes a chassis, a disk tray and a tray panel unit. The tray panel unit includes a panel main body and a spring body. The spring body has a coil part, a pair of end attachment parts and a middle attachment part. An axial direction of the coil par... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7917917 | Tray ejecting mechanism and medium drive device that prevents an ejection switch from being pressed when an ejectable tray is open A tray ejecting mechanism includes a stationary bezel mounted to a front surface of an ejectable tray, and a movable bezel movably attached to the stationary bezel while being biased in a front-surface direction. The stationary bezel includes a detection component p... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7890966 | Disk drive access door An information management system is disclosed and can include a housing that can have a front panel assembly. The front panel assembly can have a frame formed with an opening and a door adjacent to the opening. Further, the system can include a disk drive within the... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7886316 | Disk unit and disk unit-integrated television A disk unit capable of suppressing damage of a recording surface of a disk and preventing a torsion spring from coming off is obtained. This disk unit comprises a housing portion including a disk slot, a door portion mounted on the housing portion in an openable/clo... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7877762 | Shutter controller, disc device, and computer program for determining that disc is caught During a process of closing of a shutter of a disk device, a position of the shutter is detected. A first shutter position indicator indicative of a first position of the shutter and a second shutter position indicator indicative of a second position, which is immed... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7770191 | Tray door attachment structure for disk device A tray door attachment structure for a disk device has a tray door and a torsion coil spring. The tray door is pivotably attached to a front panel of the disk device. The tray door includes a door body, a door arm on which a spring receiving portion and a spring sup... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7640557 | Housing for on-vehicle electronic apparatus A housing for an on-vehicle electronic apparatus includes a housing body, and a front panel assembly detachably attached to the front surface of the housing body. A recording medium insertion slit is provided in an upper portion of the front surface of the housing b... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7574715 | Disk drive media access system A disk drive media access system opens a media access door to the interior of a disk drive sufficiently for ejection of disk media from the disk drive but insufficiently for manually engaging and removing disk media that is operationally positioned within the disk d... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7490337 | Door opening structure for car multimedia system A door opening structure for a car multimedia system includes a housing, a front panel provided on a side thereof with an opening and combined with the housing, a trim plate combined with the front panel and a door configured to selectively open and close the openin... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7490338 | Disc device A disc device includes a cabinet having a tray ejection/inserting opening; a disc tray being ejected from and inserted into the tray ejecting/inserting opening of the cabinet; a tray cover being capable of opening and closing the tray ejecting/inserting opening of t... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7487519 | Door interlock unit and disk recording/reproducing apparatus with the same A door interlock unit to be used with a disk recording/reproducing apparatus having a disk tray and a door through which the disk tray moves in and out of the disk recording/reproducing apparatus, the door interlock unit including a restricting member to restrict th... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7458085 | Method for opening tray door of optical disc device and its structure The present invention relates to a method for opening a tray door of an optical device. The method comprises the steps of first driving the tray door to move horizontally and attain to a position that no interference between the tray door and a front panel occurs, a... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7424725 | Optical disk player An optical disk player with improved opening and closing of a door, transport of a tray, and an improved pivoting structure of a chassis to pivot a turntable. The optical disk player includes: a body; a tray to move in and out of the body so as to transport an optic... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7398537 | Keystroke apparatus for optical disk drive A keystroke apparatus for an optical disk drive includes a computer bezel (40), an optical disk drive (10) having a keystroke (12), a pressing member (20) movably attached to the computer bezel (40) and at least one spring (30 | 07/08/2008 |
| 7370339 | Disc drive apparatus A disc drive apparatus has a fixed unit and a collapsible unit which is supported to be expansible and contractible to the fixed unit. A disc drive section is arranged on the fixed unit. The collapsible unit is driven by an expansion/contraction mechanism to expand ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7365970 | Bezel mounting assembly A bezel mounting assembly for rotating and then retaining a bezel (200) to a bracket (400) of a servo includes a bezel, a pair of fastening devices (20) mounted on the bracket of the servo, a pair of sliding devices (40) sliding in the fa... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363636 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus with a disk transport A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a housing with a disk entrance and exit slot into and from which a disk is inserted and ejected, a gate on the housing so as to cover the disk entrance and exit slot, and a disk transport mechanism for transport... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363634 | Storage device assembly incorporating ejecting mechanism with safety latch A storage device assembly includes a storage device (40), a cover (30), a button (10) and a bracket (20). The storage device includes a tray (44). The cover defines a button slot (34) and a pair of apertures (38) ther... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7363635 | Disk drive A long aperture extending along the forward and backward movement direction is formed on each of the brackets, each of the supporting shafts is movably inserted into each of the long apertures, a spring shaft in parallel with one of the supporting shafts is protrude... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360224 | Springing device which facilitates opening and closing the aperture of an optical disc drive A springing device including a moveable piece and an elastic object is provided. The moveable piece is disposed between the aperture and the tray and is able to swing. The first end of the moveable piece is pivotally connected to the internal of the casing and the p... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350219 | Slot-in optical recording and/or reproduction apparatus A slot-in optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a case formed with a slot and a swingable cover. The case provides a housing for adopting components of the slot-in optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus. The optical disk is drawn out of/int... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343607 | Driving mechanism of electronic instrument The driving mechanism has an instrument body formed with a recording medium inserting slot for inserting a recording medium into the instrument body. The driving mechanism moves a first operation unit and a second operation unit between a first position for covering... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343608 | Recording medium accommodation apparatus A storage medium accommodation apparatus is disclosed wherein the range of sliding movement of a panel for opening and closing a plurality of storage medium access ports is reduced. The storage medium accommodation apparatus includes a housing having first and secon... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7342798 | Electronic appliance and enclosure thereof An electronic appliance includes an enclosure and an internal device (50). The enclosure includes a bezel (10) defining at least one opening (111). A pair of slanting slideways (151) is defined in the bezel. A bracket (20) is slida... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340751 | Disc player mounted on vehicle A vehicle mount disc player having a small thickness by removing a wasteful space around a reproduction unit chassis when a disc is loaded or unloaded. The vehicle mount disc player has the reproduction unit chassis supported in a floating state by a main chassis vi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340755 | Disc drive apparatus A disc drive apparatus having a simple configuration and allowing a user to put a disc into and take it out from the apparatus with ease includes a lid and a tray incorporated into a cabinet of a disc drive, so as to be able to turn and, when the lid is opened or cl... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337450 | Electronic apparatus When a sliding plate slides forward by the rotating force of a motor, the lower part of a movable member is driven and the movable member set in a vertical state moves forward with the vertical state maintained, and the movable member is then rotated and inclined. W... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7331643 | Piece of furniture with a movable furniture component A piece of furniture with a movable furniture component, in particular a drawer or door, includes a drive unit and a device for the mechanical transmission of force from the drive unit to the movable furniture component or the body of the furniture. In particular, a... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334237 | Disc drive apparatus A disc drive apparatus according to the present invention has a tray formed of an optically transparent material and has disc receiving portions. The tray is movable in an ejection and a retraction direction with respect to a casing. A light source is mounted inside... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7317592 | Automatic medium changer with carrier-pressure-operated mechanical auto lock/unlock mechanism To prevent a door opening when a carrier moves without using an electric actuator and without placing a burden on a device. An auto lock/unlock mechanism is composed solely of mechanical elements, and a lock mechanism is switched between an unlocked state and a lock... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7305687 | Apparatus for supporting a storage container An apparatus for supporting a storage container upon removal from a storage compartment. A door is disposed proximate the storage compartment and is movable between an open position and a closed position. The door includes a mating feature. The storage container inc... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7290271 | Optical disk apparatus An optical disk apparatus according to the invention comprises a housing, a tray retractably mounted in the housing, and a bezel 10 adapted to close an opening of the housing 2 when the tray is accommodated in the housing 2. An electrically cond... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7290268 | Disc drive apparatus with tray formed of optically transparent material A disc drive apparatus according to the present invention has a tray formed of an optically transparent material and has disc receiving portions. The tray is movable in an ejection and a retraction direction with respect to a casing. A light source is mounted inside... | 10/30/2007 |
