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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8132194 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes at least an apparatus body having a disk loading/unloading slot, a traverse unit which is disposed in the apparatus body to conduct at least one of recording, deletion, and reproduction of information onto or from ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8095944 | Slot-in optical disk drive A slot-in type disk drive fastens a clamping unit with two protrusions around its periphery on the central hole of a base plate. A front positioning part utilizes a stick to link a front right positioning bar and a front left positioning bar to synchronously open or... | 01/10/2012 |
| 7984458 | Disk unit for conveying disks of different diameters A disk unit is disclosed wherein a disk inserted by a pivoting arm is loaded to the interior of the disk unit or a disk accommodated in the interior of the disk unit is unloaded to the exterior of the disk unit, the disk unit including a plurality of arms able to co... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7900220 | Slot-in disk drive device A slot-in disk drive device has a drive unit for providing power to move a slider and thus a sliding plate attached to the slider. Guiding slots on the sliding plate rotate a transmission bar. A guide pin is disposed on the transmission bar and moves with a loading ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7827569 | Recording medium drive system and electronic apparatus Disclosed herein is a recording medium drive system including: a casing provided in a front face thereof with a slot through which to insert and discharge a recording medium having a principal surface and an opposite surface; and a sheet-formed member provided so as... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7805737 | Disk drive device and electronic apparatus A disk drive device includes a housing having a front side with a slot through which a disk-shaped recording medium is inserted and ejected, a pickup unit including a mount on which the recording medium is mounted, a rotating mechanism that rotates the recording med... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7644417 | Disc apparatus A disc apparatus is provided in which a disc inserted by automatic loading by a plurality of arms supporting outer peripheral edges of two kinds of discs with different diameters can be loaded into the disc apparatus or a disc accommodated within the disc apparatus ... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7603679 | Disc device When a disc is loaded in or unloaded from a disc device, even if the disc is pushed in the direction opposite to the transmission direction by external force to return or is pulled to return, it is possible to prevent the mechanism that transmits the disc from being... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7603678 | Disc device When a disc is loaded in or unloaded from a disc device, even if the disc is pushed in the direction opposite to the transmission direction by external force to return or is pulled to return, it is possible to prevent the mechanism that transmits the disc from being... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7472402 | Disk drive having disk-positioning members to facilitate rotation of an optical disk at the reading and/or writing position A disk drive includes a chassis and first and second disk-positioning members mounted respectively on two opposite sides of the chassis. The first and second disk-positioning members have two straight inner portions extending perpendicularly and respectively from th... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7467395 | Disc drive device A disc drive device which can discharge a disc in an optimum discharge amount in the disc drive device dealing with discs having different thickness and weight. A disc drive device including a disc conveying mechanism formed with a supporting portion to support the ... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7444650 | Disk apparatus A disk apparatus includes a playback unit having a reading unit for reading information recorded on a disk, and a turntable on which the disk is placed, the playback unit being movable between a lateral side of a disk conveying path and a central portion of the disk... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7411871 | Optical disk drive An optical disk drive including a sliding portion, which moves a sub frame upward or downward against a main frame; a sensor, which includes tension members which are provided in both sides of the sliding portion so that the tension members are elastically deformed ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7401341 | Disc device When a disc is loaded in or unloaded from a disc device, even if the disc is pushed in the direction opposite to the transmission direction by external force to return or is pulled to return, it is possible to prevent the mechanism that transmits the disc from being... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7401342 | Optical disk conveyance system for preventing scratching upon insertion and removal In order to prevent any scratches from occurring at a back-end edge of a disk when a feeding roller finishes ejecting the disk and a user tries to grab and draw out the disk, a second ridge disposed on a side of an opening for inserting the disk of two ridges locate... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7370337 | Internal/external enclosure for computer removable storage medium An internal/external enclosure for computer removable storage medium includes a main body being provided on front and rear sides near at least one lateral end thereof with a slot each, and more than one supporting device separately operatively mounted in the slots. ... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7353522 | Disk recording and/or reproducing device apparatus including a pair of transport rollers, with at least one fixed transport roller A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus in which a disk-shaped recording medium such as an optical disk is able to be transported between a disk loading portion for recording and/or reproducing information and a disk entrance and exit slot into and from which ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353523 | Disk guide device with turnable guide lever A disk guide device for use with different diameter disks is disclosed. The disk guide device may include a transporting roller for transporting a disk to a chucking position, a pair of detection arms capable of abutting with a periphery of an inserted disk, a biasi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343609 | Control mechanism for clamper guider in slot-in drive A control mechanism for a clamper guider in a slot-in drive comprises a motor used to drive a transmission sheet to move through a gear train; the transmission sheet drives a control sheet to rotate counterclockwise or clockwise and further to cause a raised piece o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7305685 | Inserting and extracting device for rotatable data carrier plates The invention relates to an inserting and extracting device for rotatable data carrier plates which mechanically moves the data carrier plate (1) from an inserting position into a playing position before playing and back into the inserting position again afte... | 12/04/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7287260 | Compact disc reader and method An apparatus for reading an optical disc. The apparatus includes a housing and a spindle positioned to rotatably support the optical disc adjacent to the exterior of the housing. A light emitting scan head is aligned to read the optical disc as it rotates. A protect... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7284251 | Disc-guiding member provided with a positioning pillar A disc drive includes a disc-guiding member provided with a positioning pillar, a rotating seat for receiving an optical disc when the disc is disposed at a reading position, and a transport roller for pushing the optical disc against urging action of the disc-guidi... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7281256 | Disk transport mechanism for a disk drive A disk drive includes a spacer unit mounted at one end of a roller-mounting frame for spacing a disk transport roller apart from a plate member. The spacer unit has a predetermined length greater than the greatest outer diameter of the transport roller. ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272838 | Loading mechanism of a disk drive A disk player device including a disk slot for inserting a disk, a disk playing space provided in an inner side of disk slot, and a turntable and a clamper for disk which are movable between a retreated position retreated from a disk play position and a disk holding... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266828 | Disk drive device A disk drive device equipped with a disk transfer mechanism for loading a disk into and out of a play position that does not increase the complexity of the overall structure and the size of the housing. The device comprises a tray for supporting a disk within the ho... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7251817 | Disk transfer device The disk transfer device according to the present invention includes a disk tray for holding the disk during the disk transfer action and a tray driving mechanism for driving the tray forward and backward between a first position which is the retracted location of t... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7234152 | Disk player In guide grooves formed at both side edges of a lower face of a tray and fitted to a pair of left and right guide members of a cabinet, the guide groove substantially in a U-like shape on one side is inserted with a front end portion of an elastic plate integrally p... | 06/19/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7213252 | Disk transfer device including disk support member provided with a first and second disk support members for supporting different size disks A disk transfer device including a disk tray for holding a disk during the disk transfer action and a tray driving mechanism for driving the tray forward and backward between a first position which is the retracted location of the tray corresponding to a turntable i... | 05/01/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7103894 | Disk loading mechanism, and disk recording and/or reproducing device A disk loading apparatus includes first and second main gears (35, 43) disposed at equal distances to each other in radial directions from the center of rotation of a disk table (85) which is the center of rotation of a disk-type recording medium at an... | 09/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7016135 | Apparatus and method for automated interconnection and disconnection of disk drive carrier in a system A disk drive having an optical signal connector and a magnetic power coupling is placed in a drive carrier. The bottom of the carrier has a recess with a transverse pin mounted in the recess. A pair of small magnets are mounted near the rear of the carrier. The carr... | 03/21/2006 |
| 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 |
