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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8176505 | Method of manipulating data storage elements A device and method for simultaneously manipulating multiple data storage cartridges or other storage elements in a storage library. The device housing includes an opening for receiving data storage cartridges. A gripping mechanism extends from the opening. The grip... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171505 | Disc drive device To provide a disc drive device which does not spend a lot of money on components and requires the less number of components than the conventional technology and has a function to correctly dispose an inserted disc by a slot-in method at a place where the disc can be... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8141109 | Disc drive apparatus and electronic apparatus A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8099742 | Optical disk loading final position detection device An optical disk loading final position detection device includes an optical disk guiding device, a delivery roll, a pair of detection bars provided with detection parts capable of freely rotating around respective rotary pivots, a support part, the middle of the sup... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8095943 | Slot-in optical disk drive A slot-in optical disk drive includes a holding mechanism, a main body and a sliding module. The holding mechanism includes a disk slotting opening, two sliding rails and two slope rails. The main body and the sliding module are held by the holding mechanism. The ma... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8082557 | Disk device To eject an optical disk forcibly from a disk device by a manual operation, an operation pin is inserted into an emergency hole of a front bezel. Then, the operation pin causes first and second ejection levers to move rearward to push a first transmission gear down ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8069454 | Emergency ejection device for a slot-in disk drive The invention provides an emergency ejection device for a slot-in disk drive, which rotates a worm gear by a motor. A central hole of a rotating component is fixed on a housing. A sliding slot is formed on an end of the rotating component, and a buckling slot is for... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8056094 | Optical disc drive An optical disc drive including an outer casing, a supporting base, a main shaft motor and a position-limiting element is provided. The outer casing has an optical disc entry. The supporting base is disposed in the outer casing. The main shaft motor is disposed on t... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8001557 | Slot-in type disk apparatus It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus in which a moving position of a disk is precisely guided when the disk is inserted or discharged, thereby preventing the disk from coming into contact with an objective lens and furthe... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7937718 | Disc device with shutter to block insertion of a disk A disc device has a plurality of arms configured to support the outer rim of a disc carryable. Automatic loading is applied such that the disc inserted can be carried in the device, and the disc housed inside the device can be carried out of the device. A pair of sh... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7739700 | Insertion-proof device for optical disk drive An insertion-proof device for optical disk drive is provided to prevent other discs from being inserted in the operating disk drive. A slider moves back and forth along the optical disk drive to load and unload a disc. A push head is disposed on one end of the slide... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7707596 | Queue hand A device and method for simultaneously manipulating multiple data storage cartridges or other storage elements in a storage library. The device housing includes an opening for receiving data storage cartridges. A gripping mechanism extends from the opening. The grip... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7594240 | Disk drive apparatus The present invention is directed to a disk drive apparatus in which an optical disk (2) is detachably loaded, and comprises a casing (3) including a front panel (18) in which a disk insertion/withdrawal hole (19) of which length in lengt... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7500253 | Disk loading device having a lift frame protrusion A disk unit wherein a disk inserted by a plurality of arms, the arms being able to convey the disk while supporting an outer periphery edge of the disk, is loaded to the interior of the disk unit or the disk accommodated in the interior of the disk unit is unloaded ... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7373648 | Disk recording and/or reproducing device A recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a disk transfer mechanism, a mechanical chassis lifting/lowering mechanism, and a gear switching mechanism. The disk transfer mechanism transfers a disk onto a disk table with a motor. The disk transfer mechanism has a ro... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7367034 | Disk drive having mechanism to limit tray position during transfer of tray To provide a disk drive having a mechanism to limit position of a tray while being transferred by a simple configuration, guiding parts each having a guide rib and a supporting portion are provided on at least one outer wall on the side facing inside the chassis, an... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360226 | Disk player A drive gear (30) is rotated by a motor (28). Drive force from a loading transmission gear (36), which constantly engages the drive gear (30), is constantly transmitted to a loading mechanism (20). In a pick-up moving mechanism ( | 04/15/2008 |
| 7340752 | Disc driving device and cam for disc driving device In a disc driving device that performs loading operation to transfer a disc, which is a disc-shaped storage medium, in its radial direction, and chucking operation to transfer the disc substantially in the direction of the thickness, the loading operation and the ch... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7302695 | Slot-in type optical disk player The present invention provides a slot-in type optical disk player which has a guide unit to guide an optical disk, inserted into an inlet, to a central portion of the inlet of the optical disk player, and a disk guide device to allow the optical disk player to play ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7302694 | 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... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7287261 | Disc-positioning mechanism for car-mounted disc player A disc-positioning mechanism of a car-mounted disc player includes drive chassis having at least a turntable and a pickup; a clamper-supporting member movable so as to come close to or detach away from the drive chassis; a clamper rotatably supported on the clamper-... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287263 | Disc apparatus A disc apparatus includes a casing having an opening for insertion/ejection of a disc, a rotator for clamping and rotating the disc, a disc-transferring member, a head facing a recorded face of the disc and being movable in radial directions of the disc, a rack mova... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7281255 | Disc guiding mechanism The present invention relates to a disc guiding mechanism, having: a main body which provided with a teeth array at one side; a first sliding bar and a second sliding bar both of which are provided on the main body; a transmission element provided on the main body a... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7231645 | Slot-in disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus capable of recording information and/or reproducing information A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus has a disk centering member having a disk abutment assembly and an operating member, and angularly movably supported at a portion thereof between the disk abutment assembly and the operating member by a shaft, wherein wh... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7210150 | Optical disk driving apparatus capable of detecting overlapped disc insertion Herein disclosed is an optical disc driving apparatus 100, 200 for driving an optical disc while reading out information contained in the optical disc, the optical disc having an outer peripheral surface, comprising: a housing 101 formed with an loadin... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7194746 | Tray device mechanism for optical disc apparatus A tray drive mechanism has a simple structure, and yet both an optical disc clamping operation and a tray opening and closing operation can be driven by one feed motor. The tray drive mechanism comprises: a feed gear and a tray drive gear that are rotated by ... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7191454 | Disc driving device and cam for disc driving device In a disc driving device that performs loading operation to transfer a disc, which is a disc-shaped storage medium, in its radial direction, and chucking operation to transfer the disc substantially in the direction of the thickness, the loading operation and the ch... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7162725 | Disc centering device The invention seeks to provide a disc centering device of simple arrangement in a disc player for laying large and small size discs. One of paired, i.e., left and right, leading members and a trigger member also serve as a pair of small size disc stoppers, and the o... | 01/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7140031 | Optical disc loading apparatus In an optical loading apparatus, by including a main roller installed at an inlet side of an optical disc drive; a disc guide installed in the opposite direction of the main roller with an inserted disc therebetween; a disc path control member which can change disc ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7140030 | Disc drive apparatus with loading mechanism for different sized discs A disc drive apparatus is comprised of an opening portion which can insert/eject a large disc shaped medium and a small disc shaped medium, a feeding roller which pulls in a disc shaped medium being inserted to the opening portion, oscillating links which have conve... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7120919 | Disk holding device for optical disk reading device The present invention is directed to a disk holding device for use in an optical disk reading device that accurately receives and positions an optical disk inserted into the optical disk reading device. The disk holding device comprises a substrate, a holding frame,... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7107598 | Disk device having reduced disk contact areas against outer peripheral surface of disk A guide flap is a member shaped like substantially a plate, and a pair of disk guide parts are formed on both sides of the guide flap. The respective inside portions of the disk guide parts form disk contact portions that abut against the outer peripheral surface of... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7080390 | Power transmitting device for stepping motor and disk drive provided with the same A power transmitting device for a stepping motor comprises: a stepping motor commonly serving as a power source for a pickup moving mechanism of a light load and a power source for a disk transferring mechanism of a heavy load; switching mechanism for a switching pa... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7065773 | Disc loading-and-unloading structure for disc apparatus To make simple in structure and to still ensure precise disc loading, a disc loading-and-unloading structure for a disc apparatus comprises a drive motor, a drive roll assembly, a free-roll slider, a rotary lever, a slider, and link-and-spring connection means. The ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7013471 | Disk player The present invention relates to restrict a disk playing base plate against movement in back-and-forth directions, lateral directions and vertical directions relative to a housing by making use of the movement of a roller holder supporting a disk carrier roller.... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6993776 | Disc centering device It is sought to simplify a disc centering device. Stopper portions for centering a small-size disc are provided on disc sensors, and guide portions are provided, which, when the disc sensors are moved with insertion of a large-size disc, engage with the disc sensors... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6983470 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus The present invention relates to a disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which a disk-like recording medium such as an optical disk is transported between a disk loading portion provided for recording and/or reproducing information and a disk unloading port... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6983471 | Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus The present invention relates to a disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which a disk-like recording medium such as an optical disk is transported between a disk loading portion provided for recording and/or reproducing information and a disk unloading port... | 01/03/2006 |
