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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| 7334239 | Optical disc apparatus In an optical disc apparatus, a harsh blow sound due to collision of first stoppers of a tray and third stoppers of a main chassis when the tray reaches to a terminal position of drawing thereof is reduced. When a second stopper of the tray contacts with the front e... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7257826 | Disk changer A disk changer for CD and DVD disks including a rotatable platter with several slots each adapted for receiving a disk generally needs two optical sensors. The first sensor is adapted for detecting the number of a related slot of the platter and for providing a stop... | 08/14/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7096476 | Disk table rotation supporting structure A disk table rotation supporting structure includes a tray having an inner wall surface that stands upward, a bottom surface provided on an inside, a central axis portion that stands upward on a center portion of the bottom surface, and a receiving portion disposed ... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7069565 | Disk identifying device In a disk identifying device, when a slanting reflecting face is irradiated with light emitted from a light emitting element while a rotary tray is rotating, most of the light reflected from the slanting reflecting face is not incident on a light receiving element, ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6956714 | Library apparatus for charging or discharging a plurality of cartridges at the same time A library apparatus in which a plurality of cartridges can be charged or discharged at the same time, with a simple and compact configuration of a magazine load/unload portion, is disclosed. A plurality of cartridges each containing a storage medium are accommodated... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954935 | Disk device A disk device for reproducing information includes a clamper that is used to clamp exchangeable disks. The disk device has a movement regulating member which is engaged with a sliding hole made on a base. A clamper base is engaged with a cam hole made on the movemen... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6904006 | Optical disk reproducing apparatus having a rotary table including a plurality of protruding elements Rotary table of an optical disk reproducing apparatus is mounted on a tray for rotation in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, and it has a plurality of disk-holding depressed portions. These depressed portions are provided in such a manner that their respect... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6760284 | Disk changer type disk player A rotary tray having a plurality of disk mounting sections is pivotally supported by a central shaft arranged on a tray support face of a casing, a rim protruding from a lower face of the rotary tray is movably set on a sliding face block arranged in an outer circum... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6717890 | Information processing apparatus having a multitasking function with one or more optical discs A multitasking information processing method comprises the steps of (a) providing a plurality of turntables each for detachably storing an optical disc thereon; (b) affording a plurality of optical units each comprising a driving means and an optical read head; (c) ... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6704253 | Disk drive apparatus capable of resuming the recording process during interruption During an operation to change the recording speed, an optical pickup (3) is retracted so as to play back a signal that has already been recording onto a disc D. A synchronization signal obtained from the signal that is played back by the optical pickup (3... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6633518 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus having a movable tray A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus recording and/or reproducing information on and/or from anyone of a plurality of disk-like recording mediums. Freedom in design is improved by effectively utilizing spaces in which respective portions and mech... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6621769 | Disc reproducing apparatus Both when disc reproducing means is performing a reproduction operation on a disc, and when the disc reproducing means is not performing a reproduction operation on a disc, a tray on which a rotary table is disposed can be moved by tray driving means to a... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6614733 | Apparatus and method of determining disk size in a multi-disk changer The present invention relates to method and apparatus for determining presence or absence of a disk and size of a disk inserted in a disk holder of a multi-disk changer. A disk size determining apparatus of a multi-disk changer of the present invention, i... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6603721 | Method and apparatus for controlling the rotation of a turntable which is capable of instantly and accurately moving a disc mounting unit regardless of rotation speed variation or aging of parts The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling the rotation of a turntable, in order to move a disk mounting portion selected among a plurality of disk mounting portions installed on the turntable to a pickup side by a key inpu... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6219314 | Disc changer with rotatable disc support and disc player including the disc changer A disc changer for bringing disc-shaped information carriers into and out of a position. The disc changer includes a supporting body and a disc-shaped disc which is supported by the supporting body, is arranged to be movable relative to the body, and is r... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6195312 | CD changing device A CD changing device including a bottom disc that is moved back and forth in a slide groove by a projecting gear, a turntable disposed on the bottom disc to receive a CD, a limit rod provided on the bottom of the projecting gear carrying a spring, and a s... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6091677 | Disc playing device To eject a transfer tray while no disc is played, the transfer tray is moved to an ejected position with a rotary table rotated through an angle corresponding to 1/10 revolution, so that even the rearmost disc holding portion on the rotary table sufficien... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6045041 | Cassette managing system Cassette managing data is read or written with a cassette accommodated in its bin. Cassettes 2a, 2b, 2c, and so on are attached at particular positions thereof to IC cards 1a, 1b, 1c, and so on respectively. Cassette bins 4a, 4b, 4c, and so on have read/w... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5513157 | Loading apparatus for recording medium and method for controlling the same A loading apparatus for a recording medium such as a disc-like recording medium includes a transfer member, a drive unit, a detector and a controller. The transfer member moves between a recording medium changing position and a disc-like recording medium ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5473585 | Compact disk player having single pick-up for selectively reading data from either one of two partially overlapped parallel disks An improved compact disk player device is provided which has compact dimensions and results in reduced cost of manufacturing. The compact disk player device achieves the above described advantages by providing a unique construction whereby multiple compac... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5375113 | Optical disk storage tray having multiple storage sites and corresponding drive components An optical disk storage tray having a plurality of storage locations, each of which is supplied with a separate optical head and drive mechanism and with common electronics for controlling the optical heads and drive mechanisms and for interfacing them to... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5313351 | Twin disk player A disk player for loading and unloading a pair of disks while closing and opening a door to the disk player under control of a single motor capable of rotating in both the clockwise direction and the counterclockwise direction. During rotation in one dire... | 05/17/1994 |
| 5270989 | Disk player A disk player capable of playing one of a plurality of disks arranged on a tray, comprises a housing, and a tray having a center and a plurality of disk rests aligned radially around the center of the tray, the tray movable between a disk loading position... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5253235 | Disk player wherein a plurality of compact disks and a laser disk are rotated with a single motor Four compact disks (CDs) and one laser disk (LD) are placed in a tray having a plurality of disk receiving sections and moved through a disk supplying opening into a disk player housing. In accordance with the desired input to the disk player, a disk hold... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5043963 | Multi-disk player A multi-disk player according to the invention has a disk table which comprises (1) a large size disk mounting section on which a large size disk is mounted, (2) a turn table rotatable about an axis which is a predetermined eccentric distance away from th... | 08/27/1991 |
