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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085625 | Burner system capable of inverting an optical disc and inverter thereof A burner system capable of inverting an optical disc has a control module, a burning module, a mechanical arm and an inverter. The control module controls the mechanical arm to grab the optical disc from a burner in the burning module and release the optical disc in... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7929384 | Multi-stage disk-feeding apparatus for information storage disks A disk-feeding apparatus includes a base, two or more than two disk-feeding devices and an intermediate conveyer associated with the disk-feeding devices. The disk-feeding devices are mounted on the base and hold respectively stacks of disks. An intermediate conveye... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7885149 | Disk carrier device and disk drive A disk carrier device for carrying an optical disk having a plate in the center, which plate is capable of being attracted by a magnetic force, is disclosed. The disclosed disk carrier device includes an attracting unit including a permanent magnet that attracts and... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7864637 | Optical disc recording and reproducing apparatus and disc autochanger An object of the invention is to provide a disc autochanger without any disc reversing mechanism by using on A-side recording and reproducing apparatus and a B-side recording and reproducing apparatus while using a sheet-like optical disc in which both surfaces can ... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7596059 | Disc changer having disc pushing device A disc changer has a disc pushing device that can be accommodated within a limited space and can securely push out a disc from a disc accommodation section in a simple structure. The disc pushing device includes: a rotation axis fitted to a casing of the disc change... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7457205 | Linear optical disk changer with side switching capabilities An optical disk changer that is capable of automatically playing both sides of a dual-sided optical disk. By coordinated rotation and delivery of disks taken from a linear disk storage bin, both sides of a dual-sided optical disk can be automatically accessed. ... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7421718 | Disk conveying means for a disc drive using retractable rollers and guide plates A disk apparatus includes a guide mechanism for guiding conveyance of a disk so that the disk can be advanced or retracted in a direction of conveyance of the disk, rotary members rotatably disposed on both ends of the guide mechanism, a disk conveying mechanism dis... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7360225 | Disc holding mechanism There is provided a disc holding mechanism capable of easily loading and unloading optical discs having different shapes on a disc tray, in which an optical disc is securely fixed and held on the disc tray and the load applied to the disc when it is loaded and unloa... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7350218 | Optical-disk drive and optical-disk ejection control method An optical disk drive comprises a drive body, a spindle motor, an optical pickup device, a sled motor, a tray, a loading motor, and a controller. When the loaded optical disk is ejected, the controller controls the sled motor and the loading motor so that the return... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7339858 | Disk device, and methods for checking, ejecting, and loading disk in disk device A disk device includes a disk tray capable of accommodating disks by stacking; a first driving motor for transferring the disk tray in the disk-stacking direction; a driving unit including an optical head for reading out data recorded in the disks, and a supporting ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7334242 | Method and device for ejecting disc A method for ejecting a disc includes the steps of conveying a disc back to a disc-holding position on a rotator by conveyor pulleys if an error occurs in an ejecting process of the disc, and subsequently performing a retry operation of the ejecting process. Specifi... | 02/19/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7322036 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus A structure on a base plate is simplified, and the thickness of the structure on the base plate is reduced. A disk transfer mechanism includes a housing having a disk slot. A disk is inserted from the disk slot between a base plate and a top panel of the housing. A ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7283431 | Charger for optical recording media The present invention relates to an elevator type changer for optical recording media including a moveable drawer supporting a number of trays arranged one above the other, each tray capable of holding an optical recording medium, which allows access to all trays at... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7274635 | Method and apparatus for recording address information on disc medium In step S1, the address generator generates address information composed of a sync signal which is recorded on an optical disc, address data and an error correction code for the address data, pre-encodes and supplies it to a modulator. At the same time, a car... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7257825 | Disc changer, method of detecting mode thereof, and method of selecting disc ejection To provide a disc changer capable of working without any malfunctions in spite of a reduced number of switches, it includes a mode-detecting mechanism having means for identifying an operation, cams respectively operated by powers supplied from a first and second mo... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7243357 | Disk device A disk device including a first disk holder movable with disk conveyance, a second disk holder opposed to a groove portion formed in the first disk holder and holding a disk grippingly in cooperation with the first disk holder when the first disk holder holds the di... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7230887 | Multiple disc player having disc guides for relocating dislocated discs The present invention was developed in order to provide a disc player, whereby even when an inserted disc is not normally set on a stocker, or a normally set disc is dislocated from a stocker, the disc can be reset in the normal position on the stocker during a stoc... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7219355 | Optical disk reproducing apparatus An optical disk player including: a disk insertion assembly which is positioned on an upper portion of the front face of the player main body and has a disk insertion/ejection opening into which an optical disk is inserted, a disk conveying device which holds the in... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7195324 | Disc storage unit A disc storage unit includes a case, a tray supported by the case and configured to support an array of discs in respective parallel vertical planes across which respective coaxial axes of the discs pass horizontally. There is a disc-raising mechanism having a finge... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7180694 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus, recording and/or reproducing method, recording medium and program A recording apparatus of a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium includes a transfer unit, a recording head, a signal-processing unit and a control unit. The transfer unit transfers a tape-shaped magnetic recording medium having an anisotropic property oblique with ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7159225 | Disc device with disc changer To achieve a disc device with a disc changer in which number of motors is reduced, and a quiet and stable switching operation, accurate positioning of a sub-tray, smooth clamp and release of a disc are possible, only a first motor for driving a main tray and a secon... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7146619 | Disc loading apparatus A disc conveying apparatus includes a first conveyor unit having a plurality of rollers which are arranged along a conveying path of a disc-shaped recording medium with gaps therebetween, which move in a direction away from the conveying path and rotate individually... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7145841 | Programmable self-operating compact disk duplication system A system for the duplication of binary data onto CD-R disks, the system including a copy unit, a host computer and computer software, the software being installed in the host computer to provide a user interface and to direct the transfer of data from the host compu... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7111310 | Reproducing/recording apparatus There is provided a reproducing/recording apparatus that can reduce a load required for pushing in a case to activate a motor of a loading mechanism. The recording/reproducing apparatus includes a gear mechanism coupled with the motor, and a rack (43) coupled... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7100177 | Reproducing/recording apparatus A reproducing/recording apparatus including a first disk tray (11) for mounting a first disk thereon and a second disk tray (12) for mounting a second disk that is of a type different from the type of the firs disk thereon. The first disk tray (11 | 08/29/2006 |
| 7093270 | Reproducing/recording apparatus A reproducing/recording apparatus includes a first reproducing/recording mechanism (21) for reproducing data from and/or recording data onto a cartridge/disk combination (first disk) (1) or a bare disk (second disk) (2), the disk main body (1... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7036132 | Reconfigurable cartridge processing module for storing cartridge receiving devices in a data storage system A reconfigurable cartridge processing module for use in a data storage system may comprise a frame having a plurality of sets of mounting locations provided thereon so that the frame defines a first component configuration and a second component configuration. In th... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7031232 | Linear optical disk changer with side switching capabilities An optical disk changer that is capable of automatically playing both sides of a dual-sided optical disk. By coordinated rotation and delivery of disks taken from a linear disk storage bin, both sides of a dual-sided optical disk can be automatically accessed. ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7031231 | Disk holder pop-out preventing device A disk holder springing-out prevention device is constituted by utilizing an existing loading block LB. A disk holder 3 is restricted to an accommodated position within a magazine M by means of a stopper 1a provided on a holder guide rail 1 | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028315 | Optical disk player with modularized deceleration device An optical disk player has a carrier having an accomodation space provided along a side edge thereof, and a modular deceleration device that is coupled to the accomodation space. The deceleration device has a module case body that is formed in one piece, and a plura... | 04/11/2006 |
| 6996034 | Disk device holding a plurality of disks at its inner diameter A disk device realizing reducing in size and number of parts, prevention of damage to disks, shortening operation time for plurality of operations, improved vibration resistance and less expensive manufacturing cost is provided. The disk device capable of storing a ... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6996835 | Disk device A disk device capable of storing a plurality of disks therein includes a disk holder capable of changing its vertical position to hold a disk, a driver to drive the disk holder, and the disk holder performs a rotational movement and the changing of its vertical heig... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6990674 | Picker support for disc duplicator A CD or DVD disc processor, as shown, a recorder or duplicator (it could be a printer) has a pivoting picker mechanism having only one degree of freedom when driven for handling the discs for recording and stacking recorded discs. The picker mechanism picks the disc... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6970402 | Carrier mechanism There is provided a carrier mechanism which can move a carrier section 23 to a desired position with high accuracy. The carrier mechanism is comprised of the carrier section 23, a driving motor 18, and an actuator formed of a cam mechanism 13... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6963519 | Disc device A disc device comprising a transfer unit operable to provide a transferring force to a disc inserted from the outside to transfer the disc into a storage area in the device, a sensor unit for detecting the position of the inserted disc, and a control unit for contro... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6959445 | Disk drive apparatus with inclined clamp release function The present invention provides a disc drive apparatus including a rotation drive mechanism for driving or rotating an optical disc, which has a disc table onto which the optical disc is to be placed, and a motor for rotating the disc table, a clamp member for clampi... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6957440 | Methods for translating and reading optical disks The present disclosure provides apparatus and methods for reading optical disks. Some implementations are particularly well suited for automatically playing both sides of a dual-sided optical disk. By coordinated delivery of disks between a disk reader, a disk trans... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6951028 | CD inserting mechanism of a CD player without loading plate A CD player is equipped with a CD inserting mechanism without loading plate; the CD inserting mechanism is equipped with single transmission gear set to be simple in structure and have reduced numbers of parts; the transmission gear set consists of a rubber roller, ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6947357 | Changer-type disk device A changer-type disk device includes a disk storage section holding disks arranged in the axial direction of the disks; a drive unit for reproducing and/or recording information from/in a disk selected from the disks in the disk storage section; a drive activating me... | 09/20/2005 |
