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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8037489 | Disk device A disk device includes: a traverse chassis, one end of which is configured to be movable between a first position and a second position in a first direction; a cam member, formed with a cam groove configured to move in a second direction orthogonal to the first dire... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7653918 | Stopper for preventing the separation between the traverse and the traverse frame in an optical disc drive The present invention discloses an optical disk drive comprising a traverse, a traverse frame, a chassis and a stopper. The traverse frame is disposed on the chassis. And one end of the traverse is disposed on the chassis and the other end is disposed on the travers... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7636926 | Shock isolation structure applied in optical disc drive A shock isolation structure applied in an optical disc drive is provided. The shock isolation structure includes a bottom portion, a top portion, and a neck portion jointing the bottom portion and the top portion. The portions have a through hole running through the... | 12/22/2009 |
| 7543314 | Optical disc drive having impact absorbing member An optical disc drive includes a main chassis, a deck unit mounted on the main chassis to move upward and downward, and a slider installed movably on the main chassis. The slider moves the deck unit upward and downward while moving on the main chassis and an impact ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7472407 | Optical disc apparatus having dynamic damper mechanism The invention provides an optical disc apparatus having a dynamic damper mechanism which does not use any part for exclusive use for absorbing a shock of an optical pickup. The optical disc apparatus is provided with a chassis attached to a base chassis via a first ... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7444653 | Disc unit and damper mechanism therefor Disc unit having a small number of parts and capable of effecting fitting operation with ease. A chassis is fitted via elastic members to a holder which is disposed to be moveable vertically with respect to the plane of a body frame. Each elastic member is a substan... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7428743 | In-vehicle player An in-vehicle player which is mounted in a dashboard in a passenger room of a vehicle comprises: an outer housing to be assembled in a mount space provided in the dashboard; a device body contained in the outer housing; and a cushion member interposed between the ou... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7383558 | Vibration preventing device and an optical disc drive having the same An optical disc drive has an improved vibration preventing device. A main chassis has opposite sidewalls and first and second mold tension parts integrally formed with the sidewalls, respectively. A pickup deck has a turn table adapted to receive a disc and a pickup... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7380252 | Disc drive with resonator A disc drive includes a frame in which a spindle motor and an optical pickup are installed, and at least one helmholtz resonator that is installed in the frame to reduce noise of a particular frequency determined by a volume of a resonating tube and a length and dia... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7370341 | Disk driving apparatus and method of manufacturing the same A disk driving apparatus includes a base chassis which mounts thereon a spindle motor to rotatably drive a disk, and a pickup device to at least record information on or reproduce information from the disk rotated by the spindle motor while moving in a radial direct... | 05/06/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7337449 | Disk drive for minimizing jamming during disk positioning A disk drive including a tray having a seating portion in which a disk or disk cartridge is seated, and an opening hole, and further having a disk cartridge holder installed on the tray to be capable of sliding, the disk cartridge holder fixing the disk cartridge to... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334240 | Disk apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a high-reliability slot-in type disk apparatus having a buffering function against vibrations vertically generated in recording and reproducing data on an optical disk. A disk apparatus 1 according to the pr... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7331054 | Vibration damping means for optical recording/reproducing apparatus A vibration damping means (30) for an optical reproducing/recording apparatus (100) includes a first damper (4), and a second damper (5) received in the first damper. The first damper has a damp coefficient adapted to absorb vibrations ge... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7286343 | Lock mechanism for digital disc player A digital disc player includes a main body, a lid pivotally connected to the main body, and a latch mounted on the main body. The lid defines a recessed portion at one corner thereof and a hook is formed at the recessed portion. The latch includes a base through whi... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281254 | Optical disc drive having a traverse holder that is rotatable around an axis that is mutually different from the axis of a traverse base An optical disc drive includes: a tray to mount a cartridge including a disc and having a positioning hole; a chassis for supporting the tray to move in a first direction; a spindle motor; an optical head; a traverse base, which is supported on the chassis so as to ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7260821 | Disk driving apparatus A disk driving apparatus includes a base chassis supported in a cabinet through an elastic body, and equipped with a spindle motor to rotate and drive a disk and a pickup moving radially with respect to the disk rotated by the spindle motor. Preferably, the base cha... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7243359 | Method and apparatus for dynamically absorbing vibration A disk device (10) comprises a case (11) for supporting the entire disk device (10), a base chassis (12) on which a spindle motor (21) for rotating the disk is set, a counterweight (13) for absorbing vibration of the base ch... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237246 | Position adjustment and damper mechanism for an optical disk drive A position adjustment method includes forming a plurality of bores on a tray, forming a plurality of through holes in a mounting plate corresponding to the bores on the tray, installing a plurality of screws into the through holes, and threading a plurality of nuts ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7137132 | Optical pickup An optical pickup has a laser mounting surface formed around an opening portion of a laser hole while a notch groove ranging from the laser mounting surface to an operating hole is formed in a laser hole side wall portion. A fitting piece removably fitted into the n... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7120920 | Disc drive and optical disc drive An easily manufacturable optical disc drive that provides for accurate writing and reading of information signals to and from a disc loaded therein by maintaining the horizontal balance of its base during operation, and that provides for smooth loading and unloading... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7117511 | Car-mounted disc player A car-mounted disc player with an elastically supported drive unit including a turntable and a pickup; a clamper-supporting member rotatably supporting a clamper; a clamp mechanism for activating the clamper-supporting member to move toward or away from the drive un... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7051345 | Removable disk drive apparatus A removable disk drive apparatus can insert a smaller diameter disk into a tray of a vertical drive device, and improve the reliability of the disk supporting function. The tray, on which a plurality of concave portions for a disk for supporting disk storage media h... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7024674 | Disc player improvements A disc player that incorporates a single piece disc enclosure and a chassis section is described. The incorporation of the disc enclosure and the chassis section into a single piece eliminates the requirement for a separate damping system. As well as reducing the co... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7013474 | Disk drive apparatus having movably-positioned vibration-absorbing member A disk drive apparatus has a main apparatus, a disk tray, a disk rotational drive unit, an optical pickup mechanism, a movable member, an elevator drive mechanism, a protrusion provided on the movable member, and a vibration-absorbing member provided on the protrusi... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007289 | Floating support structure for CD changer A CD changer mounted on a vehicle is supported in a floating manner to sufficiently damp vibrations and prevent a CD from skipping. Mounting plates and a pair of inner support plates are connected to each other at two front and two rear points by a first set of damp... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6967813 | Method of mounting magnetic disk device, cabinet for magnetic disk device, and magnetic disk device The invention relates to the construction of an in-vehicle magnetic disk drive and a case for holding the in-vehicle magnetic disk drive. The in-vehicle magnetic disk drive must meet a condition peculiar thereto requiring normal operations under severe temperature c... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6934961 | Damper and vibration proof structure for mechanical chassis A damper has a flexible portion formed of a rubber-like elastic material, such as thermoplastic elastomer, and a lid portion whose inner peripheral portion is formed of the rubber-like elastic material. The flexible portion and the lid portion are respectively equip... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6912723 | Disc drive for playing information recorded on an optical disc A disc drive includes a main body, a disc tray movable with respect to the main body between a loading position for loading an optical disc and an eject position, and a chassis on which a rotational drive mechanism for rotating a loaded optical disc is provided. The... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6883175 | Dynamic vibration absorbing apparatus for an optical disk drive A dynamic vibration absorbing apparatus for an optical disk drive. The dynamic vibration absorbing apparatus has a first plate, a second plate provided either above or under the first plate, a plurality of first plate supporting devices, and a plurality of vibration... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6859933 | Dynamic vibration absorber for a disk player A dynamic vibration absorber for a disk player includes a deck base, a deck plate movably disposed on the deck base to support a spindle motor that spins a disk, a mass body disposed around the deck plate, and a flexibly changeable connection member that connects th... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6823527 | Dynamic vibration absorbing apparatus for an optical disk drive A dynamic vibration absorbing apparatus for an optical disk drive. The dynamic vibration absorbing apparatus has a first plate, a second plate provided either above or under the first plate, a plurality of first plate supporting devices, and a plurality of vibration... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6646977 | Resonance removing mechanism A resonance removing mechanism for a CD-RW drive is provided. The mechanism includes a first holding-down plate on which a read/write head is installed through two sliding rods. The first holding-down plate connects to a chassis frame through a series of ... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6643250 | Disk playback device Resilient members absorb vibrations to limit transmission of vibrations from a chassis to a base of a disk record/playback device. A restricting device limits transverse movement of the base on the resilient members. The restricting device limits sloping ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6246662 | Vibration damping system and servowriter A vibration damping system is provided for damping vibrations in an apparatus (1). The damping system is particularly useful in a servowriter (1). The damping system has resilient means (7) for supporting at least the majority of the weight of the apparat... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6125097 | Shock absorbing device of CD-ROM reading mechanism A shock absorbing device adapted to be incorporated in a reading mechanism of a CD-ROM having a driving motor of a substantial weight arranged at a first end side of the reading mechanism, includes a base frame defining therein an interior space for recei... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5737304 | CD/CD-ROM apparatus In a disk drive apparatus for driving a CD or CD-ROM having a disk tray with a recess, the recess is provided with a plurality of pawls that keep the disk stable when it is loaded in the recess and the apparatus is vertical. In this way, unexpected contac... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5721457 | Shock isolation system with write inhibit In a computer apparatus including an enclosure and a direct access storage device mounted within the enclosure, a mounting apparatus for the direct access storage device including: a plurality of a relatively rigid shock isolators and at least one stress ... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5612945 | Device for recording and/or reading information by means of a radiation beam, plate-shaped element suitable for use in the device, and disc player comprising the device An optical scanner for a disc placed on a turntable, having a scanning device mounted on a slide which is movable radially with respect to the turntable. The slide includes a body made of two thin plates which are parallel to each other and the direction ... | 03/18/1997 |
| 5595430 | Resilient retainer for vibration sensitive components A vibration sensitive component is mounted within a housing. The mass of the housing is supported by a damper which absorbs a portion of the shock to the component. In addition, a low profile resilient retainer provides a centering force to keep the compo... | 01/21/1997 |
