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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164891 | Electronic device with covered expansion card bay An electronic device includes a housing, an expansion card holder, and a protective cover assembly. The housing defines an opening. The expansion card holder is located inside the housing. The protective cover assembly includes a rotary shaft unit, and a cover rotat... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7619855 | Storage device, cartridge, and cartridge manufacturing method The object of the invention is to provide a storage device represented by a removable hard disk from which a cartridge having a storage medium is removable, to which cartridges having different specification sizes of the outer shapes can be applied. A cartridge of t... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7612962 | Housing opening and closing apparatus for DVD camcorder A housing opening and closing apparatus of a DVD camcorder includes a main frame in which a DVD is accommodated, a housing which is opened and closed with respect to the main frame, and a housing ejecting unit operated by a solenoid unit to open and close the housin... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7576946 | Disc loading mechanism for disc recording and/or reproducing device In the loading of a disc in a slot-in type of disc apparatus, time lag occurs at the time of shift from an operation that manually inserts the disc to an operation that automatically swallows the disc. In order to solve this problem, a switch for detecting the posit... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7492547 | Cartridge device with an ejection slider having a projection insertable into a positioning recess A cartridge device has a recording and reproducing unit for recording an information signal on and/or reproducing an information signal from a recording medium of a recording medium cartridge, the case having a positioning hole. A chassis of the device has a base an... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7418722 | Electrical system with an improved ejecting mechanism An electrical system comprises a module (3), an immovable element (2) defining a space for receiving the module and an ejecting mechanism assembled between the immovable element and the module. The ejecting mechanism comprises a guiding frame (6... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7375924 | Recording medium loading device having rotation cam which drives door opening/closing device If a cartridge moves to a complete loading position which is inward of a device by a loading device, a sliding plate moves in Y2 direction in accordance with the loading device. At this moment, because a control convex portion engages a concave portion of a d... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7360295 | System and method for securely positioning apparatus within a housing In one embodiment, a device is attached to a support by positioning fasteners into the device at the leading and trailing edges of the device and then positioning the device with respect to the support such that the leading edge fastener(s) slide downward into a slo... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356827 | Disk cartridge A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge includes an optical disc and a main cartridge body unit rotatably housing the optical disc. A lateral surface of the main cartridge body unit as an inserting end of the main cartridge body unit into the recording and/... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7340750 | Transmission assembly with a lock gate structure for an optical disc device for preventing pieces of an optical disc from escaping the optical disc device An optical disc device includes a budging mechanism, a transmission assembly, a disc holding down plate, and a lock gate structure. The budging mechanism is moved by mechanically interfering with the optical disc entering the working area of the optical disc device ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7295399 | Floppy disk drive A floppy disk drive includes a frame having a bottom portion and left and right walls and a casing for covering the frame. The casing includes an upper cover for covering an upper side of the frame and a lower cover for covering a lower side of the frame, in which t... | 11/13/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7283356 | Electronic apparatus The present invention provides an electronic apparatus which includes: a card slot into which a portable storage medium such as a card is removably inserted and which accesses the inserted portable storage medium; and an ejection mechanism section which is slidably ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7284254 | Disk cartridge and disk recording medium device having shutter members The present invention relates to a disk cartridge in which a disk-like recording medium such as an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk and a magnetic disk is accommodated within a disk compartment of a cartridge housing, a disk recording medium device in which the ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7271979 | Flexible disk drive having an eject base usable as a cover In a flexible disk drive for a flexible disk, a main frame defines a receiving portion for receiving the flexible disk. The main frame has a principal surface which faces the receiving portion and extends in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to ... | 09/18/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7256966 | Ramp made of polyoxymethylene resin A ramp for hard discs which is obtained by molding a resin composition containing (A) a polyoxymethylene resin, and (B) at least one polymeric lubricant selected from the group consisting of (b-1) a polyolefin resi... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257823 | Method and apparatus for preventing damage due to media faults in discs spinning at high speeds A system that prevents fragments of a disc from escaping from a drive. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the system comprises a drive and a fragment barricade affixed within the drive. The fragment barricade is positioned within the drive so as t... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254819 | Recording medium drive unit A recording medium drive unit includes an insertion opening through which a recording medium is inserted, a holder receiving the recording medium inserted through the insertion opening, a connector, a holder drive part moving the holder to a loading position so that... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251099 | Hard disk drive tray structure with flex circuit extending between exposed sides and connected to metal pad and indicator A HDD tray structure is disclosed. The HDD tray structure includes a tray housing, a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) installed on the tray housing, and at least one indicator, wherein one end of the FPC has a metal pad electrically connected to a connector of a... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7243358 | Slim optical disc drive A slim optical disc drive which includes a tray having a spindle motor to rotate an optical disc and an optical pickup which slides across the optical disc mounted on the tray, a lower case where the tray is slidably installed, and a main control board installed on ... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7227817 | Low profile optical head An optical head of a type useable in a optical disk reader/writer is provided. The optical head has a low profile, e.g., in a vertical direction parallel to the disk spin axis, such as less than about 5 mm preferably less than about 3 mm. Substantially all component... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227718 | Front shutter attaching structure and flexible disk drive having the same A front shutter (13′) comprises arm portions (132, 133) formed at both ends of an upper side of a door member (131). While one shaft portion (136) is formed on one of the arm portions (132) through a positioning portion (134 | 06/05/2007 |
| 7227744 | Data recording device and memory cartridge of data recording device A data recording device and a memory cartridge of a data recording device that improve the manipulation of attaching and detaching the memory cartridge and the portability of the memory cartridge. The data recording device (A) is replaceably equipped with a memory c... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7218474 | Assembly rail corners shaped to reduce shock An assembly includes a housing with a base. A mounting pad is positioned on the base. The assembly also includes a micromechanical device coupled to the mounting pad. First and second side rails extend from the base to form first and second rail corners. The first a... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7216355 | Disk-chucking apparatus for disk drives The disk-chucking apparatus comprises a chuck base having a fitting hole formed through the center thereof for allowing a driving shaft of the motor, and a plurality of first and second disposition parts formed at the outer surface. A plurality of chuck pins are dis... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7213119 | Inhibiting access to a portable storage device There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard disk cartridge contains a hard disk and a control circuit for control of... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206164 | Adhesive sheet shaft support in a data storage device An actuator pivot assembly in a data storage device includes a base, a cover attached to the base, and a shaft mounted on the base and extending upward into a hole defined by the cover. A sheet on top of the cover spans the hole, and an adhesive layer beneath the sh... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7191153 | Content distribution method and apparatus Media which stores protected content is distributed to users without the need for payment at the time of media distribution. Payment can be performed at a later time in response to which content may be enabled, and/or users may selectively pay for, and receive enabl... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187542 | Disk drive/player positioning structure A disk drive/player positioning structure includes a bracket, a sliding bottom plate coupled and movable forwards/backwards relative to the bracket, two sliding side plates coupled between the sliding bottom plate and the bracket for longitudinal displacement with t... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7184264 | Connectable memory devices to provide expandable memory A memory device is described that is capable of expanding an amount of storage capacity available to a host computer without requiring a user to purchase a new, higher capacity memory device that may be bulky and expensive. The memory device includes a host connecto... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7168336 | Transmission mechanism in slot-in drive A transmission mechanism in a slot-in drive comprises a chassis respectively connected to a motor, worm, worm gear and a plurality of spur gears, a rubber roller, transmission sheet and control sheet, in which one of the spur gears and the rubber roller are connecte... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7162726 | Disk apparatus A disk apparatus of the present invention, in which a cartridge accommodating a disk-like recording medium and having an opening opened or closed by a shutter member is loaded to the disk apparatus, includes a loading chassis; a cartridge transporting member provide... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7151646 | Flexible disk drive A flexible disk drive includes a case and a disk holder provided in the case. A flexible disk is mounted on the disk holder. A part of the disk holder abuts against an inner face of the case. Preferably, the part of the disk holder is a tip end portion of the disk h... | 12/19/2006 |
