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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7657901 | Scanning device for optical storage media The invention relates to a scanning device for optical storage media, having an optical housing with sliding bearings, which are arranged at a distance from one another, for linear movement on a guide rod, and with optical components in order to form an optical path... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7484228 | Optical pickup feeding device An optical-pickup feeding apparatus includes a pickup base on which an optical pickup is mounted, which includes a sliding bearing with a lubricant agent; and a lead screw that is slidably fitted into the sliding bearing. A peripheral surface of a screw thread of th... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7478410 | Transmitting mechanism of information recording/reproducing apparatus A transmitting mechanism of an information recording/reproducing apparatus, includes a pickup carriage, two guide rods, a feeding screw, a feeding motor and an engaging member. The pickup carriage is movably supported by the guide rods. The feeding motor rotates the... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7464388 | Optical pickup An optical pickup with improved vibration resistance and heat dissipation is mounted astride a main shaft 101 and a secondary shaft 102. The travel of the optical pickup is adapted to be guided by the main shaft, where a secondary bearing part 3... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7451466 | Feeding mechanism for pickup head An exemplary optical disc drive apparatus includes a guide shaft configured to movably support a pickup head, and an elastically deformable member. The elastically deformable member includes a main body, and a cantilever slanting up from a middle part of a front edg... | 11/11/2008 |
| 7421721 | Pickup guiding structure for optical disk drive An optical pickup guiding structure for an optical disk drive is provided. The optical pickup guiding structure comprises a pickup base with a pickup window formed therein, and an optical pickup that is provided in the pickup window and that includes at least one en... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7418723 | Optical pickup device and optical disk record/playback device for reducing the size of the record/playback device Space for an optical pickup at a position set aside from a disk accommodating section is to be compressed, thereby to reduce an overall size of an optical pickup device. For such a purpose, the optical pickup unit is held by a screw shaft and a guide shaft parallel ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7352679 | Pickup drive unit and information playback apparatus including the same A pickup drive unit is provided including at least a rack portion provided thereon with gear teeth to be engaged with grooves of a lead screw; a plate-shaped connecting portion made of a flexible material for connecting the rack portion to a fixing portion tightened... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7334246 | Optical pickup apparatus for optical disc drive having an improved receiving unit An optical pickup apparatus for an optical disc drive, including: a base; a turntable disposed above the base and which rotates an optical disc; an optical pickup unit which reciprocates with respect to the turntable in a radial direction of the turntable; a driving... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328445 | Apparatus for transferring a pickup of a disc drive An apparatus for transferring a pickup of a disc drive which is movably installed on a pickup deck to move the pickup for recording/reproducing information by emitting light onto a disc. The appartus includes a lead screw rotatably installed at one side of the picku... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328444 | Shaft support mechanism of optical disk drive and skew adjustment mechanism of optical disk drive A skew adjustment mechanism of an optical disk drive includes: a pair of rod-shaped guide shafts 32a and 32b that hold an optical pick-up unit 31 therebetween and guide the optical pick-up unit; four fixing members each having a pa... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310806 | Support mechanism and feeding unit including same A supporting mechanism for movably supporting a member to be supported along a supporting shaft, comprises supporting members and a pressing device. The supporting members are provided on the member to be supported. Each of the supporting members comes into contact ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7299481 | Support mechanism and feeding unit including same A supporting mechanism for movably supporting a member to be supported along a supporting shaft, comprises supporting members and a pressing device. The supporting members are provided on the member to be supported. Each of the supporting members comes into contact ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296279 | Transmitting device for feeding mechanism of information recording/reproducing apparatus A transmitting device for a feeding mechanism of an information recording/reproducing apparatus includes an engaging member adapted to be engaged with a power source of the apparatus for power transmission, a fixing member adapted to be fixed to a pickup module of t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7284253 | Optical pickup transferring apparatus of an optical disk drive An optical pickup transferring apparatus including a slider having a base, a floating portion elastically coupled to the base, the floating portion having on one side thereof at least one protuberance inserted into the external thread of a lead screw, and an elastic... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7266065 | Apparatus for discriminating optical recording medium and method for discriminating optical recording medium It is an object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for discriminating an optical recording medium and a method for discriminating an optical recording medium which can reliably discriminate the kind of an optical recording medium even in the case wh... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7257829 | Optical reproducing/recording apparatus An optical reproducing/recording apparatus (1) includes a chassis (11) with a first seat (17) and three second seats (16), a turntable (12), an optical pickup head (13) and a guide device (15). The turntable is locate... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7216354 | Guidance of an optical scanning device An optical scanning device for reading data stored on a rotating recording medium having a scanning head; at least one guide device for guiding the scanning head along a predefined track; at least one bearing device connected to the scanning head for supporting the ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7193937 | Objective lens driving device and optical disk apparatus Tracking coils are attached to outer surfaces of two focusing coils. Inside the focusing coils, a first magnet and a second magnet are arranged respectively. A third magnet is arranged so as to face the first magnet and the second magnet via the tracking coils. An o... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7194747 | Disc apparatus The disc apparatus according to the present invention comprises a base member (130), a chassis (140) pivotable with respect to the base member (130), a pickup unit (160) movably supported by the chassis (140) to be accessible to a ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185348 | Optical disk drive An optical disk device. The optical disk device includes a main guide rod, a sub guide rod, a pickup head, and a protrusion. The main guide rod and the sub guide rod are parallel. The pickup head has a clamp to grasp the sub guide rod. The protrusion is disposed on ... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7185346 | Low-profile disk unit A disk unit includes a tray including a turntable to which a disk-like recording medium is attached, a tray guide mechanism supporting the tray so that the tray is movable between a disk-replacing position and a disk-loading position, and a cover formed to cover the... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7174559 | Disk drive with optical pickup guiding and disk table restricting element Disclosed herein is a disk drive including a base, a spindle motor mounted on the base, a disk table fixed to a motor shaft of the spindle motor and adapted to be rotated about the axis of the motor shaft by the spindle motor, an optical pickup supported movably in ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7159916 | Vehicle instrument panel assembly A vehicle instrument panel assembly includes a console provided in a center stacking area receiving one or more vehicle components including a media player. A trim bezel configured for use with the one or more vehicle components is secured to the console. An alignme... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7160622 | Oil repelling agent An oil repelling agent to coat a dynamic pressure device, such as a fluid dynamic pressure bearing device, includes a UV coloring agent, a fluorine-based polymer and a solvent. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the concentration of the UV coloring agent c... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7028317 | Optical disc device having an inclined guided member to control the direction of light An optical disk device performing data reproducing and/or data recording of a disk with the disk being clamped and rotated. The disk device has a simple structure in which light emitted from an optical pickup can be securely made incident on the disk at right angles... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6971115 | Optical pickup apparatus The optical pickup moving mechanism includes: a feed screw and a guide shaft, which are arranged in parallel with each other, for movably supporting an optical pickup; and a drive motor for giving a drive force to the feed screw so that the optical pickup can be mov... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6960855 | Bearing for a measuring instrument, particularly a coordinate measuring instrument A bearing (32) for a coordinate measuring instrument including a slide (36) which can be axially displaced in relation to a fixing device (34) and which can be supported opposite the fixing device by means of at least one air bearing (38, 40 | 11/01/2005 |
| 6880164 | Support mechanism and feeding unit including same A supporting mechanism for movably supporting a member to be supported along a supporting shaft, comprises supporting members and a pressing device. The supporting members are provided on the member to be supported. Each of the supporting members comes into contact ... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6802071 | Optical pickup supporting device having simple and compact structure and capable of accurately supporting an optical pickup An optical pickup supporting device comprises a sheet metal base (10), a main track (41) for guiding an optical pickup so that the optical pickup (30) is moved in a predetermined direction above the base, and a sub track (15) for guiding ... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6628597 | Guide rail assembly for disk drive A guide rail assembly for use with a disk drive has a first rail that has a raised ridge with a wavy upper edge and a wavy lower edge. The assembly also has a second rail having a channel defined therein, with the channel having a wavy upper wall and a wa... | 09/30/2003 |
| 5844873 | Disc reading apparatus having a transferable motor unit and motor power disconnection The present invention relates to a disc reproducing apparatus for allowing a tray that holds a disc to be unloaded and loaded from and in a cabinet. In the disc reproducing apparatus, a motor mount that holds a disc motor and a turn table can be transferr... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5706272 | Optical system driving mechanism for an optical system driving apparatus and a sliding movement stabilizing mechanism thereof An optical system driving apparatus includes a holding member holding an optical element and having first and second surfaces facing in opposite directions, and a carriage having first and second surfaces which contact the surfaces of the holding member a... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5590095 | Magneto-optical disk apparatus with floating type magnetic head and a device for limiting an amount of deflection of a resilient member supporting the magnetic head Disclosed is magnetoptical disc apparatus for recording information in magnetoptical recording medium using a floating type magnetic head. The apparatus includes a floating type magnetic head for applying a modulated magnetic field to the medium, a leaf s... | 12/31/1996 |
| 5313446 | Disc drive device having a head carriage A disc drive device has a head mounted on a head carriage with a head moving support mechanism which is capable of moving the head to the extent of one track pitch. The device is arranged to advance the head for a plurality of recording tracks on a disc-s... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5278820 | Apparatus and method for a radial access mechanism for a disk player/recorder In a disk player/recorder apparatus, a radial access mechanism is disclosed in which a first guide rod is positioned on a mounting plate accurately with respect to the information storage medium. A head assembly engages the first guide rod through bushing... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5243919 | Magnetic levitation actuator A magnetic levitation actuator includes a pair of U-shaped first permanent magnets provided on opposite sides of an object to be driven with a pair of outwardly projecting first legs defining the U-shape. A pair of guide rails are spaced apart from the ob... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5239532 | Drive arrangement for the writing/reading heads of a magneto-optical disc apparatus A device for inscribing and/or reading a magneto-optical disc (7), including a frame (1) carrying a turntable (5) which is rotatable about an axis of rotation (11), a slide (17) carrying an optical unit (19) a rectilinear guide (15) for the slide arranged... | 08/24/1993 |
| 5193080 | Magneto-optical recording medium and apparatus Guide parts and driving parts are independently provided for an optical head and a magnetic bias field generator, and a relative position control part controls the relative positions of the two so that the both can access recording medium tracks individua... | 03/09/1993 |
| 5191562 | Positioning system for the heads of a magneto-optical data recorder A device for inscribing and or reading a magneto-optical disc includes a turntable mounted for rotation about an axis of rotation, and an optical unit and a magnetic unit movably mounted opposite to and spaced from each other in a direction parallel to th... | 03/02/1993 |
