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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7372782 | Disc detecting method in a multi-disc optical storage apparatus The present invention relates to a disc detecting method in a multi-disc optical storage apparatus, which comprises receiving an electronic signal and determining whether to perform a complete disc detecting process or not when the multi-disc optical storage apparat... | 05/13/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7296278 | Disk drive A disk drive includes a main frame; a cartridge slidably installed in the main frame; a plurality of trays stacked in the cartridge and slidably installed therein; an elevation unit for controlling a height of a turn table; a tray selecting unit for locking each tra... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7266053 | Tray-out control method for moving out a loading tray of an optical drive The present invention discloses a tray-out control method for moving out a loading tray of an optical drive. A first forcing function is applied to the loading tray to overcome a lesser magnetic attraction when an optical disk is placed on the loading tray. A second... | 09/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 6981161 | Method and apparatus for changing a digital processing system power consumption state by sensing peripheral power consumption A method and apparatus senses peripheral power consumption for system power control. In a digital processing system, an increase in current drawn by a peripheral device coupled to the digital processing system while the digital processing system is in a reduced powe... | 12/27/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6904605 | Scanning device for magazine-type storage medium and method therefore A scanning device for magazine-type storage media, especially magazine player for optical disks, and a method to drive such player, the player being provided to cooperate with a magazine-type container having extremely dense packaging of storage media, where the sto... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6867701 | Computer-server rack enclosure fault light diagnostic system A computer-server rack enclosure fault light diagnostic system and a method for providing an overall rack level fault indicator of a fault incurred by a unit of electronic equipment housed in the rack. The rack may be an EIA standard rack holding constituent compone... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6760283 | Disk recording and/or reproducing device with starting and ejection control means A disc recording and/or reproducing device includes a disc compartment that has a plurality of disc mounts placed one upon another, on which discs are mounted. The device also includes a recording and/or reproducing mechanism for selectively recording and/or reprodu... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6728168 | Carriage ejection mechanism and carriage retaining mechanism A carriage ejection mechanism has a drawer, which moves back and forth between a stock position and an eject position, a plurality of carriages contained inside the drawer in a slidable manner in the direction in which the drawer moves and in a vertically stacked ma... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6473372 | Disc changer for a disc player A disc storage stores a plurality of discs. A pair of driving rollers are provided for carrying a disc inserted from an opening to the disc storage. Each of the driving rollers is provided to be moved between a disc carrying position and a retracted posit... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6359843 | Disk recording-playback device, disk tray for use in the device, and method of ejecting the tray Provided forwardly of a stacker accommodating trays in a plurality of stages for placing a disk on each tray is a recording-playback unit which is movable upward and downward for recording or reproducing data on or from the disk. A clamp plate covering th... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6169712 | Reproducing apparatus for recorded medium Even if a recorded medium is exchanged during the reproduction of another recorded medium, the contents of the exchange work can be confirmed easily. A stocker accommodates a plurality of recorded medium carriers each holding a recorded medium. A first tr... | 01/02/2001 |
| 6141314 | Optical disc changer apparatus with method of exchanging a disc An optical disc drive apparatus including a main tray having a stack of subtrays mounted thereon and movable between withdrawn and inserted positions. When the main tray is moved to the inserted position, the subtrays stacked thereon are held at a stand-b... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6031811 | Arrangement of subtrays in a main tray of an optical disc drive apparatus An optical disc drive apparatus including a main tray having a stack of subtrays mounted thereon and movable between withdrawn and inserted positions. When the main tray is moved to the inserted position, the subtrays stacked thereon are held at a stand-b... | 02/29/2000 |
| 6008964 | Cartridge library and method of operation thereof An automated cartridge library (30) has plural cartridge receiving units which are precisely locatable so that a transport device (300) can accurately move a cartridge (90) between at least two of the cartridge-receiving units. The cartridge-receiving uni... | 12/28/1999 |
| 5867470 | Disk recording/reproducing apparatus having two trays so that a disk in a magazine can be replaced by one tray when a disk in the other tray is being recorded/reproduced A disk recording/reproducing apparatus includes a stacked pair of trays each having a disk seating unit thereon and a magazine containing a plurality of disks. While a disk seated in one tray is being recorded on or reproduced from, a disk within a magazi... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5764616 | Disk reproducing apparatus having disk changing function A disk reproducing apparatus having a disk changing function is provided where non-selected disks can be exchanged with other disks which are not preloaded as a selected disk is being reproduced, and subtrays remaining on the upper side of a subtray trans... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5715229 | Disk recording/reproducing apparatus having two trays so that a disk in a magazine can be replaced by one tray when a disk in the other tray is being recorded/reproduced A disk recording/reproducing apparatus includes a stacked pair of trays having a disk seating unit thereon. While a disk of one tray is recorded or reproduced, another disk mounted within a magazine can be replaced by the other tray.... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5541897 | Multi-carousel library with double disk receptacles and single disk retainer A double storage multi-carousel recordable media library is provided which includes a plurality of vertically stacked carousels mounted for rotation about a vertically extending central axis. Each carousel has a plurality of receptacles which are angularl... | 07/30/1996 |
| 5497365 | Laser disc player capable of playing different types of discs A laser disc player is coupled with a compact disc replacing device, so that the laser disc or a plurality of the compact discs can be selectively reproduced. Further, the laser disc player includes a sub-tray placed on a main tray and capable of loading ... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5341352 | Disk player for playing back more than one kind of disk In a multi-disk player, disks such as compact disks and video disks are positioned on at least two tray mechanisms so that the signal reproducing surfaces of the disks on the respective tray mechanisms face in predetermined directions. Drive units are pro... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5327412 | Continuous playing apparatus for use in disc player A continuous playing apparatus for a disc player the apparatus includes a horizontal moving means and a lifting/lowering means. The horizontal moving means moves cartridges alternately and horizontally, and the lifting/lowering means loads and unloads dis... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5245602 | Front loading disk player A front loading disc player for automatically delivering a disc onto a turntable and playing back the disc includes a disc delivery mechanism for delivering the disc. The disc delivery mechanisms has two trays for carrying respective discs, juxtaposed in ... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5226032 | Disk player having a plurality of movable disk holding trays A disk player includes a player housing. A turntable and a plurality of trays in which corresponding disks are detachably placed are disposed in the player housing. The trays are juxtaposed in such a manner that the surfaces of the trays are substantially... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5146446 | Disc player having automatic disc ejection, and method of providing same A front loading disc player including two trays that can carry respective discs and having a selectable automatic disc ejection feature. When the automatic ejection mode is selected and scheduled play is completed, there is an interchanging of a playing o... | 09/08/1992 |
| 4722078 | Disc player A disc player for playing compact audio discs includes a plurality of horizontally spaced disc compartments each including a disc tray for holding a disc horizontally and a disc playback module horizontally movable between and alignable with the disc comp... | 01/26/1988 |
