Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
720620000 | Edge loading | 84 |
20080229343 | Information Carrier, as Well as a Turntable and a Device for Reading Information from and/or Writing Information Onto Such an Information Carrier - Information carrier comprising a disc ( | 09-18-2008 |
20080229344 | Disk loading apparatus - The present invention relates to a disc loading apparatus that has the capability of simplifying the assembly while improving thinning and reducing the number of components. With a disc loading apparatus according to the present invention, a portion of a top panel of the frame is designed to be a second mounting unit and another portion of the top panel to be a first mounting unit, the upper surface of the second mounting unit is sagged downward more than the lower surface of the first mounting unit, notches are provided appropriately at the steeped unit between the first and the second mounting units, the second mounting unit is a portion of the disc guide, the interlocking mechanism is mounted on the upper surface of the second mounting unit, and the pair of disc detection members is mounted on the lower surface of the first mounting unit, and these detection members are arranged throughout the lower surface of the first mounting unit and the upper surface of the second mounting unit through the notches. | 09-18-2008 |
20080229345 | Double disk insertion preventing apparatus - The present invention proposes a double disc insertion preventing apparatus for a disc player with a simple construction while improving thinning. | 09-18-2008 |
20080250438 | Emergency ejection device for a slot-in optical drive - An emergency ejection device in a slot-in optical drive includes a panel with a hole. A sliding part disposes a pushing block on the path which passes through the hole into the slot-in optical drive. A guiding groove is disposed between the hole and the pushing block. The sliding part links to a loading/unloading mechanism and a rack on the sliding part engages one end of a gear set. The gear set includes a plurality of gears engaging each other one by one for transporting the power. A worm gear with a lead angle larger than the self-lock critical angle, i.e. arctan (μ/cos B), engages the other end of the gear set. A stick can put into the hole to push the pushing block backward to move the sliding part for ejecting a disc. | 10-09-2008 |
20080301722 | Disk Apparatus - In a slot-in type disk apparatus, when a disk is inserted into and ejected from the disk apparatus, it is necessary to provide a certain clearance for lowering a spindle motor supported by a traverse base and inserting the disk, but when the disk apparatus is to be reduced in thickness, it is necessary to minimize a distance for vertically moving the traverse base. | 12-04-2008 |
20080301723 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus includes a cam slider with a rack-gear section. The cam slider includes a first sloping surface that is elastically deformed, generating a force for separating the rack-gear section from the cam slider, when receiving a force that acts in the same direction as to eject an optical disc, and a second sloping surface that generates a force for coupling the rack-gear section to the cam slider again, when pressed with a force that acts in the same direction as the rack-gear section separated from the cam slider ejects an optical disc. The cam slider is moved in the direction opposite to the direction in which first and second guide arms transport the optical disc in order to load or eject the optical disc. The cam slider transmits a drive force provided by a loading motor to the first and second guide arms. | 12-04-2008 |
20090031333 | Disk apparatus - The present invention provides a disk apparatus capable of obtaining sufficient rigidity and preventing motion failure caused by deformation of a chassis outer sheath even if material having low rigidity such as aluminum alloy or magnesium alloy is used. | 01-29-2009 |
20090055848 | DISC IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, DISC INSERTION-EJECTION DEVICE, AND DISC DEVICE - A disc device is for electrically identifying and determining the number of discs inserted into the disc device. Roller members for coming in contact with a disc inserted into the device, transporting the disc, and inserting and ejecting the disc are provided in the vicinity of a disc insertion slot of a cabinet. A lever member for engaging a lever engagement part of a roller member and capable of rotating with a stem member as a supporting point and a push switch for detecting displacement of the lever member are provided. If the disc is inserted into the device, the roller member displaces in the up direction of the disc (A direction in a figure), the lever member displaces in an H direction in the figure, and the displacement of the lever member is detected by the push switch, whereby the thickness of the disc inserted into the device is detected. | 02-26-2009 |
20090089819 | Disk loading mechanism and disk device - A disk stopper ( | 04-02-2009 |
20090125925 | RECORDING MEDIUM DRIVE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Disclosed is a recording medium drive apparatus configured to drive a recording medium, including a case, a drive source used for loading/ejecting the recording medium into/from the case, a motor unit configured to hold the recording medium and rotate the recording medium held, a pickup unit configured to record a signal on the recording medium rotated by the motor unit or reproduce the recorded signal, a first slider driven by the drive source to slide a first distance in a first direction, a second slider that is cam-engaged with the pickup unit and slides in a second direction to move the pickup unit upward and downward, a moving member that is releasably engaged with the first slider, engaged with the pickup unit, and cam-engaged with the motor unit, and moves the motor unit upward and downward, and a link mechanism configured to link the first slider and the second slider. | 05-14-2009 |
20090178067 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS - According to the slot-in type disk apparatus, the discharge slider | 07-09-2009 |
20090193449 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISC DEVICE - A slot-loading disc device is provided that, even if an ejection failure occurs due to contact between a disc and peripheral components, can eliminate the ejection failure. The slot-loading disc device ( | 07-30-2009 |
20090300665 | DISC DEVICE - The disc device includes a casing, a drive unit, a disc processor swingably supported in the casing, and a first shift cam that swings the disc processor. The first shift cam restricts the swing of the disc processor to place the disc processor to each of an escape state, a clamp state, and a standby state. The standby state is a state in which the optical disc clamped to the turntable is allowed to keep a position apart from the opposing face of the casing while the disc processor is swung from the escape state to the clamp state. Accordingly, with no need to detect the position in the standby state with an arrangement such as separately-provided sensor, the disc processor can be placed in such a swinging state that the turntable can be controlled to be slightly rotated during the double clamp operation in a simplified arrangement. While preventing clamp failures, the optical disc can be favorably processed. | 12-03-2009 |
20090320054 | DISK DEVICE - To provide a “disk device” that does not waste a power during waiting for disk insertion and thus can save power consumption. The disk device includes: a casing equipped with an insertion port to which a disk is inserted; a conveying mechanism for conveying a disk, which is provided inside the insertion port; a switching type detecting switch that is switched to a detection state in accordance with a movement force of a disk inserted from the insertion port in an insertion direction; and an optical detecting member that is switched to a detection state when a disk inserted from the insertion port blocks an optical path, wherein when the detecting switch is switched to a detection state, power supply to the optical detecting member is started. | 12-24-2009 |
20100095312 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type thin disk apparatus having a sufficient clearance when a disk is inserted into and taken out from the disk apparatus, and capable of reliably attaching a disk to a spindle motor. | 04-15-2010 |
20100122272 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus which can further be thinned without deteriorating strengths of a lever and a base body. The slot-in type disk apparatus in which a base body | 05-13-2010 |
20100138846 | DISK DEVICE - A lifting frame has a lifting pin that fits into a lifting cam groove of a follower slider, and swings up and down about a rod near a disk slot. A holding member is swingably attached to front end of the lifting frame. This holding member supports a turntable unit for holding a disk. The holding member has a cam follower pin that fits into a swinging cam groove of a loading slider to raise and lower the holding member. When the lifting frame swings down from a read/write position to a lowered position, the holding member inclines from the lifting frame so as to place the turntable unit substantially parallel to a disk carrying direction. | 06-03-2010 |
20100153979 | Electronic apparatus - Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including a main body portion, a tray main body, a tray auxiliary portion, a first top panel, and a second top panel. The tray main body is capable of being taken into and out of the main body portion and includes a mounted portion, a drive portion, an optical system, and a first store portion. The tray auxiliary portion includes a second store portion that is integrated with the first store portion of the tray main body to form a space capable of storing the optical disc mounted on the mounted portion. | 06-17-2010 |
20100162279 | 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 formed on an end of the sliding slot. A first gear of a gear set fixed on the central hole of the rotating component is engaged with the worm gear. A clutching gear fixed on the other end of the rotating component is engaged with the first gear. An end of a locking component inserts inside the sliding slot, and an inclined surface protrudes from the other end of the locking component. A spring provides an elastic force for holding the sliding column inside the buckling slot so as to keep engagement of the clutching gear with a second gear. | 06-24-2010 |
20100223635 | 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 further reducing the thickness of the disk apparatus. In the slot-in type disk apparatus, a base body | 09-02-2010 |
20100223636 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus which can be reduced in thickness without deteriorating strength of a lever and a rear base. In a slot-in type disk apparatus, a base body | 09-02-2010 |
20100235850 | DISK DEVICE - In order to provide a disk device, in which a disk can be prevented from being damaged and a thickness can be more reduced, a disk device according to the present invention includes, a turntable which is rotationally driven and, for placing a disk thereon, a clamper for rotatably holding the disk between the turntable and the clamper, which has a hook on a side opposite to a side on which the disk is held, a loading mechanism for carrying the disk inserted to between the turntable and the clamper, a clamp arm which includes a clamper holder for rotatably holding the clamper by a claw fitted to the hook with a clearance and an arm unit disposed pivotably on a pivot shaft positioned apart from the clamper holder, the clamp arm moving the clamper between a disk pressing position and a retreat position, and a clamper restricting member including a resilient portion capable of contacting a part of the clamper on the side opposite to the side of the clamper moved to the retreat position and on a side apart from the pivot shaft of the arm unit. | 09-16-2010 |
20100251274 | 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 the supporting base. The position-limiting element has a first pivot portion, a position-limiting part and a second pivot portion located between the first pivot portion and the position-limiting part. The first pivot portion is connected to the supporting base, and the position-limiting element is able to be swung about the second pivot serving as a fulcrum. When the supporting base is located at an upper position, the position-limiting part is located at a first position, and when the supporting base is located at a lower position, the position-limiting part is located at a second position, wherein the first position is under the second position. | 09-30-2010 |
20100251275 | DISK DEVICE - A disk device includes: a slider member | 09-30-2010 |
20100269126 | DISC MOUNTING MECHANISM - An optical disc mounting mechanism, comprising, a front sweeper ( | 10-21-2010 |
20100275223 | 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 main body includes a shelf, a disk reading unit and a main spindle motor. The sliding module includes a sliding base, two clamp sheets and a driving unit, each clamp sheet having a pivot end, a free end opposite to the pivot end and a sliding block. If the sliding block is at the sliding rail, the free end of the clamp sheet and the sliding base are closed up; and if the sliding block is at the slope rail, the free end of the clamp sheet and the sliding base are opened up. | 10-28-2010 |
20100299684 | Slot-In Optical Disk Drive - A disk loading device of a slot-in optical disk drive comprises two loading levers to load and eject a disk, wherein the two loading levers are connected to a pivot pin; and a guide slot having a right recess and a left recess, wherein the pivot pin is moveable along the guide slot. | 11-25-2010 |
20100313211 | 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 driven according to the size of the disc. The disc drive device comprises an abutment pad which receives the inserted disc in a different posture depending on the size of the disc, a coupling member which rotationally transfers by a different distance at a different position according to the posture of the abutment pad when it rotationally transfers along with the bring-in operation of the disc, and a spring which applies a predetermined energizing force to the coupling member. Due to the coupled operation of these components, etc., the inserted disc can be correctly disposed at a predetermined place where the disc can be driven according to the size of the disc. | 12-09-2010 |
20110010729 | OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - An optical disk drive includes a cassette mechanism and a protective structure. The protective structure includes a protective member. The protective member includes a protective portion with a passage that can deform to increase the width of the passage when an optical disk enters the passage, and returning to the original width of the passage when the optical disk has passed through the passage. | 01-13-2011 |
20110010730 | Disc apparatus - A disc apparatus includes: a housing; a recording/reproducing unit provided in the housing for recording and/or reproducing information in and/or from a disc-shaped recording medium; an insertion/ejection port provided on the housing through which the disc-shaped recording medium is inserted and ejected, the insertion/ejection port having a width greater than the diameter of the disc-shaped recording medium; a disc transport mechanism provided in the housing to transport the disc-shaped recording medium between the insertion/ejection port and the recording/reproducing unit; and an identification mechanism to identify the disc-shaped recording medium as a first disc-shaped recording medium having a first diameter or a second disc-shaped recording medium having a diameter smaller than the first diameter The identification mechanism includes a pair of levers, a pair of gear members, urging means, a stopper, first detection means, and control means. | 01-13-2011 |
20110029993 | 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 to a disengaged position. When the first transmission gear is pushed down to the disengaged position, a loading slider begins to move forward according to a biasing force of a coil spring, feeding the disk outward. After moving a distance forward, the loading slider is stopped against a receiving portion of a first ejection lever, thereby to stop the disk at a half-eject position where the disk slightly protrudes from the bezel. Thereafter, when the operation pin is pulled out, the loading slider moves forward along with the pull-out movement of the operation pin, and the disk is fed out to a full-eject position. | 02-03-2011 |
20110035762 | Emergency Ejecting Apparatus for Optical Disc Drive - The present invention discloses an optical disc drive including a pickup head for reading data from a disc; a spindle motor for supporting and rotating the disc; a loading/ejecting apparatus for loading or ejecting the disc; and an emergency ejecting apparatus. The emergency ejecting apparatus includes a slider for connecting the loading/ejecting apparatus, a rack, an elastic component for connecting the slider and the rack and a rotator rotated with the movement of the slider. When a user drives the rotator and the elastic component is elastically deformed, the slider is moved in the optical disc drive to drive the loading/ejecting apparatus to eject the disc. | 02-10-2011 |
20110061067 | 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 a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate. | 03-10-2011 |
20110088049 | SLOT-IN OPTICAL DISK DRIVE WITH LIFTING EJECTION DEVICE - A slot-in optical disk drive with lifting ejection device is disclosed. A sliding device which has a first guiding slot and a second guiding slot is driven by a transmission unit. A sliding bolt protruded from a traverse is inserted into the first guiding slot, and the traverse connects with the sliding device. A lifting ejection device has a column vertically set in a housing and a sleeve which covers the column. A guiding pin protruded from the sleeve is inserted into the second guiding slot and is driven by the sliding device to disengage an optical disk. | 04-14-2011 |
20110214134 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - A control unit makes the slot control mechanism execute an failure recovery operation to repeat the insertion operation and the ejection operation alternately for a predetermined amount at a first point of time when the below fact is found, if it is found that there is an error in insertion operation or ejection operation of a slot control mechanism. Afterwards, the control unit makes the slot control mechanism execute an restoration operation for a predetermined amount after a second point of time when the below fact is found, if it is found that the slot control mechanism has returned to normal, thereby making the slot control mechanism return to the state at the first point of time. Then, the control unit makes the slot control mechanism execute the insertion operation or the ejection operation again. With this arrangement, it is possible to ensure reliable insertion operation or ejection operation. | 09-01-2011 |
20110247019 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPTICAL DISK DRIVER OF COMPUTER - A method and system controls an optical disk driver (ODD) of a computer. The method detects whether an eject button connected with an I/O (input/output) chip of the computer has been pressed, and determines if an optical disk exists in the ODD when the eject button has been pressed. Additionally, the method sends a control signal to the ODD, and control the ODD to eject the optical disk when the optical disk exists in the ODD. | 10-06-2011 |
20110283300 | DISK DEVICE - There is provided a disk device having a buffer portion capable of relatively moving at least a rack at the beginning of meshing with a drive gear in an opposite direction to a moving direction of a slide cam member moved by conveyance of a disk, when the disk is conveyed to a replayable position by a disk conveyance mechanism and the slide cam member moves so that the drive gear and the rack are meshed with each other. | 11-17-2011 |
20120036520 | Slot-In Optical Disc Drive - A slot-in optical disc drive is provided to comprise a driving element moveably disposed in the optical disc and capable of moving toward a disc loading direction and a disc unloading direction, wherein the driving element has a loading drive groove; a disc loading element pivoted in the optical disc drive, wherein the disc loading element has a loading driven pin for operating with the loading drive groove; a disc unloading element pivoted in the optical disc drive; and an elastic element used for providing an elastic force on the disc unloading element. When the driving element moves toward the disc unloading direction, the loading driven pin relatively moves in the loading drive groove and drives the disc loading element to rotate and push a disc into the optical disc drive. When the driving element moves toward the disc loading direction, the elastic force provided from the elastic element drives the disc unloading element to rotate and push the disc out of the optical disc. | 02-09-2012 |
20120124600 | Disk Loading Device and Disk Device - A disk loading apparatus (disk apparatus) includes: a pair of front arms that are disposed substantially symmetrically with respect to a virtual straight line extending along a loading direction of a disk and passing a substantially central position of an insertion opening of an apparatus main body and are pivotally supported at one end thereof in the proximity of the opposite ends of the insertion opening such that the other ends thereof are spaced away from each other to load the disk; and a pair of link arms that are disposed substantially symmetrically around the virtual straight line and crossing with each other to synchronize the pivotal motions of the arms. The link arms have a restricting portion for abutting with the disk loaded to the loaded position to restrict the movement of the disk. | 05-17-2012 |
20130007780 | DISC LOADING STRUCTURE AND OPTICAL DISC DRIVE EMPLOYING THE SAME - A disc loading apparatus is provided. The disc loading apparatus includes a frame base, a spindle motor installed in the frame base, a disc guide wall disposed at one side of the frame base and configured to guide a loading of a disc, a disc loading structure disposed in front of another side of the frame base and disposed parallel to a direction in which the disc enters to load the disc on the spindle motor, a rotational disc centering lever disposed adjacent to the guide wall to center the disc with respect to the spindle motor, and an ejecting lever disposed at a rear side of the frame base and configured to unload the disc loaded on the spindle motor. | 01-03-2013 |
720621000 | Roller mechanism | 22 |
20090204982 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - To provide an optical disc device in which an identification and a disc ejection control processing for an optical disc with a high transmitting property and an 8-cm optical disc attached to an adapter can be effected easily and positively. There are provided a body capable of receiving an optical disc therein, an insertion/ejection port capable of insertion and ejection of the optical disc relative to the interior of the body, and rollers which are provided within the body, and rotate, while holding the optical disc therebetween, so as to convey the optical disc into the interior of the body. A mechanical detector, having a contact element for contact with at least one of obverse and reverse surfaces of the optical disc to detect the optical disc, is provided within the body so that an identification and a disc ejection control processing for optical discs can be effected easily and positively. | 08-13-2009 |
20090254929 | DISK CARRYING DEVICE - A disk carrying device including a transporting roller for carrying a disk, a turntable and a clamper for holding the disk, a trigger plate moved by carrying of the disk to a chucking position for changing a transmission route of driving force from the transporting roller to a cam plate, a first biasing means for urging the trigger plate to a position before moving, a guide base for pressing the disk on the transporting roller, an arm roller disposed on an opposite side of the guide base with respect to the transporting roller so as to move the guide base apart from the transporting roller, and a second biasing means disposed between the guide base and the arm roller. The second biasing means is extended when the disk is present between the guide base and the transporting roller and generates urging force pulling the guide base to the transporting roller. | 10-08-2009 |
20090276798 | Optical Disk Transport Device for Optical Disk Player - An optical disk transport device for optical disk player comprises a carrying roller, an optical disk guiding part located above the carrying roller, an elastic part for pressing the carrying roller towards the optical disk guiding part, and a motor for driving the carrying roller to rotate. The roll body of the carrying roller is of a bipyramidal structure with the diameter gradually decreasing from the two ends to the middle. The positions on the optical disk guiding part opposite to each pyramid of the carrying roller are provided with at least one rotatable driven roller. The rotating axes of each driven roller are located in the plane which is the rotating axis of the carrying roller located in and is vertical to the roof of the optical disk playing device, or are parallel to the plane. The ends adjacent to the middle of the carrying roller of each driven roller slant upwards, so as to make the driven rollers only contact the outer margin of the optical disk when the optical disk is inserted. The optical disk transport device can protect the front and back surfaces from being scratched during the process of transporting the optical disk. It is especially suitable for the optical disk playing device using the optical disks with the both surfaces being recording surfaces, and can implement the miniaturization of the optical disk playing device. | 11-05-2009 |
20090282427 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS - It is an object of the present invention to provide a slot-in type disk apparatus which can be reduced in thickness by precisely guiding a moving position of a disk when the disk is inserted and discharged. The slot-in type disk apparatus in which a base body | 11-12-2009 |
20090300666 | Disk loading device and disk device - A disk loading device includes a driving roller ( | 12-03-2009 |
20100083292 | Storage medium carrying mechanism in storage medium reproducing apparatus or storage medium recording/reproducing apparatus - In a storage medium carrying mechanism of a storage medium reproducing apparatus, a pressing member paired with a carrying roller is swingably attached, the pressing member forms a shut-off portion in a front side, shafts extend externally from both ends of the pressing member, and arms extend downward in the vicinities of both the ends. An urging means is interposed between the pressing member and a frame to press a large-diameter storage medium inserted from a storage medium insert port to a carrying roller side by the pressing member at all times while a pressing means is disposed to press both the arms against an urging force of the urging means and swings the pressing member through both the arms so that the storage medium insert port is temporarily closed. | 04-01-2010 |
20100095313 | Optical Disk Transport Device for Optical Disk Playing Device - An optical disk transport device for optical disk playing device comprises: a delivery roll and an optical disk guiding device located at the optical disk insertion inlet; a pair of detection bars provided with detection parts contacting the periphery of the optical disk inserted from the optical disk insertion inlet, and the detection bars being capable of freely rotating around respective rotary pivots; a linkage plate for controlling the pair of detection bars to move together; an elastic part making the detection bars to rotate according to the direction that makes the detection parts to contact the periphery of the optical disk; and an optical disk baffle for stopping the transport of the small diameter optical disk as the center of the small diameter optical disk passing the center of the plummer; the detection parts of the pair of detection bars are located between the delivery roll and the plummer. The optical disk transport device utilizes simple structure, to implement that no matter what posture the playing device is at, it can all transport the small diameter optical disk to the plummer safely. | 04-15-2010 |
20100095314 | Optical Disk Loading Final Position Detection Device - An optical disk loading final position detection device comprises: an optical disk guiding device and a delivery roll located at the optical disk insertion inlet; a pair of detection bars provided with detection parts contacting the periphery of the optical disk of big diameter or small diameter inserted from the optical disk insertion inlet, and the detection bars being capable of freely rotating around respective rotary pivots; a support part, one end of the support part being rotatablely fixed to the upper base plate near the detection part of one detection bar, the middle of the support part being provided with an assorted part interacting with the detection bar; and a trigger bar, the middle of the trigger bar being rotatablely fixed to the free end of the support part, one end of the trigger bar being provided with a contact part for contacting the periphery of an optical disk, and the other end being connected to a control part. While the detection bars are rotating, the support part makes the trigger bar to move towards the direction directly facing the central line, so, the trigger bar will not extrude out of the maximum outer diameter of the optical disk along the optical disk transport direction, so as to implement miniaturizing the optical disk playing device. | 04-15-2010 |
20100115538 | DISK LOADING MECHANISM - A disk loading mechanism comprises a frame and a roller mounted on a carrier. The carrier is pivotable with respect to the frame to bias the roller onto the disk. It would be advantageous to provide a disk loading mechanism in which the forces exerted on a disk to be inserted in or ejected from a drive unit by a roller providing a movement of the disk are equal for the inserting and ejecting operations. To better address one or more of these concerns it is suggested to provide a disk loading mechanism comprising reduction gears which do not transmit any other than rotational forces onto the roller. Any other forces are accommodated for by the carrier and compensate each other such that they do not have any influence on the biasing of the carrier towards the disk. | 05-06-2010 |
20100180288 | DISC DEVICE - A disc device includes a conveying roller and a disc guide which are disposed in such a way as to be able to move upwardly and downwardly with respect to a main unit thereof, and a moving unit for downwardly moving said conveying roller and said disc guide by different amounts of travel respectively in synchronization with a downward movement of an inserted disc and placement of the disc on a turntable. | 07-15-2010 |
20100205621 | DISC DEVICE - A disc device is disposed to include contact parts which are relatively and respectively disposed in a roller base member and a slider member in such a way that a movement of the roller base member which receives the spring force of a pushing member to move a conveying roller to a disk conveying position causes a backward movement force to be applied to the slider member after engagement between a rack and a driving gear is released and a driving action of a cam part on the conveying roller is released while the slider member retracts to a disc insertion standby position. | 08-12-2010 |
20100218204 | PHOTODETECTOR - A light receiving device generates photocurrent that corresponds to the quantity of incident light. A capacitor is arranged with one terminal set to a fixed electric potential, and is charged using the photocurrent. A comparator compares the voltage that occurs between both terminals of the capacitor with a predetermined threshold voltage, and generates a judgment signal that corresponds to the comparison result. An initialization switch initializes the voltage that occurs both terminals of the capacitor. A judgment unit acquires, as data which indicates the quantity of light, the level of the judgment signal at a timing after the passage of a predetermined judgment period of time from the commencement of charging of the capacitor using the photocurrent. | 08-26-2010 |
20100287574 | OPTICAL DISC REPRODUCING DEVICE AND METHOD OF EJECTION CONTROLLING OPTICAL DISC - An optical disc reproducing device including rollers configured to carry an optical disc inserted in a slot in an inside direction to a reproduction possible position and to carry the optical disc in an outside direction to a prescribed ejecting position from the reproduction possible position, a plurality of position detecting switches to detect positions of the optical disc in the device, and a carrying control unit configured to control to drive the rollers based on states of the position detecting switches so as to carry the optical disc. The carrying control unit, when the optical disc stops at a position except the reproduction possible position and the ejecting position, drives the rollers to carry the stopped optical disc to the ejecting position, in at least one of cases that a state of any position detecting switch has changed and that any operating key is operated by a user. | 11-11-2010 |
20100287575 | DISK PLAYBACK DEVICE - A disk playback device is arranged such that a lever member is, when the lever member has the conveyance force of a disk having abutted against a disk-detecting end of the lever member exerted thereon, the lever member is rotated in a carrying direction of the disk against the urging force of an urging member; thereby, a tip portion of the lever means moves a lock member in the direction where the lock by the lock ember is released; a long hole of the lever means is, when the lock member is moved off the tip portion before long, guided by a boss shaft of a clamp member to be moved by the urging force of the urging member; thereby, the disk-detecting end is moved off the disk clamped against the turntable, and also a pin of the clamp member fits in a cutaway groove of an arcuate hole of the lever member to position the lever member. | 11-11-2010 |
20100333122 | DISK CARRYING DEVICE - A disk carrying device including a transporting roller for carrying a disk, a turntable and a clamper for holding the disk, a trigger plate moved by carrying of the disk to a chucking position for changing a transmission route of driving force from the transporting roller to a cam plate, a first biasing means for urging the trigger plate to a position before moving, a guide base for pressing the disk on the transporting roller, an arm roller disposed on an opposite side of the guide base with respect to the transporting roller so as to move the guide base apart from the transporting roller, and a second biasing means disposed between the guide base and the arm roller. The second biasing means is extended when the disk is present between the guide base and the transporting roller and generates urging force pulling the guide base to the transporting roller. | 12-30-2010 |
20110202937 | DISC APPARATUS - A disc apparatus includes: a playback unit | 08-18-2011 |
20110258645 | OPTICAL DISK MECHANISM WITH SHAPED ROLLER AND DOUBLE BEAM MOUNT - An optical disk mechanism has a housing with at least one disk entry/exit aperture. A disk guide, such as a plate, is aligned with and guides an optical disk through the disk entry/exit aperture. Two beams rotatably support at least one roller and a drive mechanism. Flexing and biasing the roller towards the disk, the two beams maintain a rotational axis of the roller parallel to the disk and accommodate varying separation between the roller and the disk guide. The two beams are closely spaced and non-coplanar, and may be part of a double-beam mount. The double-beam mount attaches the two beams to the housing and to a frame, which positions the roller near the disk guide and the disk entry/exit aperture. Sliding the disk along the plate or other disk guide, the roller is reversible to drive the disk in or out through the disk entry/exit aperture. | 10-20-2011 |
20110296446 | DISC CHANGER - A disc changer includes a disc cartridge having an insertion hole, a case body into which the disc cartridge is inserted, having first and second shells which can be separated in which a plurality of disc-shaped recording media are storable by being arrayed in the axial direction of the center axis, and a lock lever for locking the shells in a connected state; and a disc holder to hold the inserted disc cartridge, including an unlocking piece which unlocks locking between the shells by being inserted into the insertion hole when the disc cartridge is inserted into the disc holder to press the lock lever, and a restricting lever supported by the unlocking piece, including a restricting portion engaged with the case body when the unlocking piece is inserted into the insertion hole, so that locking between the shells is unlocked, the restricting lever restricting movement in the extracting direction. | 12-01-2011 |
20120005697 | DISC TRANSFER GUIDE APPARATUS AND DISC TRANSFER MECHANISM - A disc transfer guide apparatus includes a guide plate for transferring a disc by clamping the disc in cooperation with a feed roller and a mount base to which the guide plate is mounted. The guide plate has a pair of plate portions coupled by a coupling portion that can be expandable and shrinkable in an axial direction of the feed roller. Each plate portion has a protruding piece at the outer end and the mount base has a slit engaged with the protruding piece for restraining the guide plate from moving in the axial direction of the feed roller. Each plate portion has inclined protruding threads having a protruding amount from the obverse face gradually increasing from the inner end toward the outer end. | 01-05-2012 |
20120023510 | DISC TRANSFER MECHANISM AND DISC DRIVE APPARATUS - A disc transfer mechanism includes a feed roller provided between a drive unit incorporated in a drive apparatus main body and an insert slot formed in the apparatus main body; a roller supporting member pivotably supporting the feed roller between a disc transfer position and an evacuated position; a drive cam for pivoting the feed roller between the disc transfer position and the evacuated position; and a driven cam moving in cooperation with pivoting of the feed roller. The drive cam engages with a rotation shaft of the feed roller and moves rectilinearly along one peripheral end of the drive unit, and the driven cam moves rectilinearly along the other peripheral end of the drive unit. | 01-26-2012 |
20120079510 | OPTICAL DISC STORAGE MAGAZINE AND DISC CHANGER - A magazine detachably installed in a main body of a disc changer is divided into sections by partitions for storing a large number of optical discs. The magazine is provided with a belt set around rollers, which carries the optical disc in contact with the belt. In the disc changer, the belt is rotated by a gear of the roller, which is engaged with an external drive gear for taking the optical disc through rotating movement. Among the optical discs which have been taken, a target optical disc opposite the slit of the disc control plate passes through the slit, and the other optical discs stop while abutting against the disc control plate. The optical disc which has passed through the slit is inserted into disc carriage rollers, and further carried to the drive for recording/reproducing. | 03-29-2012 |
20120297401 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - A disc loading device includes a loading motor, a loading roller that is driven by the loading motor and that loads and unloads a disc, a gear device provided between the loading motor and the loading roller, the gear device including a plurality of gears, and a power train control device which is configured to control power between the plurality of gears, wherein the power train control device operatively disconnects a power transmission train between the plurality of gears when the disc is unloaded. | 11-22-2012 |
720622000 | Guide mechanism | 22 |
20080201730 | 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 damaged and to improve the reliability of the disc device. In a disc device for loading the disc inserted by the pivoting of the arm mechanism therein and for unloading the disc accommodated therein to the outside thereof, a lock mechanism, by which a lock state in which driving force for pivoting the arm mechanism is transmitted from a driving mechanism is released when force more than a predetermined amount is applied to the arm mechanism in the loading direction of the disc or in the unloading direction of the disc, is formed. | 08-21-2008 |
20080282274 | Disk Selecting Device And Disk Device - To provide a disk selecting device and disk device which require only a small space and can prevent an erroneous selection of disks. | 11-13-2008 |
20090049462 | Disc Player - There is provided a disc player which does not require any complicated mechanism for holding discs different in diameter at the terminal portion of the loading passage and implements thin design of the apparatus. | 02-19-2009 |
20090288106 | DISC DRIVE APPARATUS - In an optical disc drive apparatus | 11-19-2009 |
20090288107 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus including first to fourth disc guides. At the end of disc loading, the first one, in a fixed position, contacts a peripheral side face of the optical disc at a first point thereon to support the disc; the second one has a plane opposite to the peripheral side face which contacts the peripheral side face of the optical disc at a second point to support the disc while restrained from moving away from the side face; the third one contacts the peripheral side face of the optical disc at a third point to support the disc while biased by a spring; and the fourth one contacts the side face at a fourth point while biased by a spring to support the disc, and is restrained from moving against the resilience of the spring. The disc, supported by those disc guides, is chucked by a clamper. | 11-19-2009 |
20100138847 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes 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 a disk, and a disk conveying device which conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from a state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device. The disk conveying device includes at least first through third disk conveying arm members which are pivotably mounted on the apparatus body and which can hold a periphery of the disk to convey the disk. | 06-03-2010 |
20100281495 | PROTECTION DEVICE OF SLOT-IN OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - A protection device of a slot-in optical disk drive is provided. The protection device is disposed between two linking parts of the slot-in optical disk drive. One of the two linking parts is formed with a slot, and the other one of the two linking parts is connected to an upper end of a guide pin. A lower end of the guide pin protrudes and is inserted into the slot, and a portion of the guide pin corresponding to a side of the slot is formed with a notch. As the notch engages with the slot, the situation that the guide pin slides out of the slot can be avoided. | 11-04-2010 |
20110247020 | 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 convey two types of disks different in diameter while supporting an outer periphery edge of each of the disks. | 10-06-2011 |
20120089995 | DISK APPARATUS - A disk device of the invention is provided with a trigger member rotated by being contacted with and pressed by a disk having a different diameter to be conveyed to a replayable position, a slide cam member which drives a disk installment mechanism by being pressed and moved by the trigger member, and a centering member which centers the disk so that the disk faces a turntable at the replayable position. The trigger member has a rotation shaft portion serving as a rotation center, a disk contact portion to be contacted with the disk, and a pressing portion for pressing the slide cam member, and the centering member is provided movably in a disk conveying direction by being contacted with and pressed by the conveyed disk, and has a guide portion for moving the rotation shaft portion of the trigger member in accordance with movement in the disk conveying direction. | 04-12-2012 |
20120117579 | DISC DEVICE, A MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS INCLUDING A DISC DEVICE, AND A METHOD OF DRIVING THE DISC DEVICE - A disc device that includes a loading unit configured to load an storage medium into the disc device, a chucking unit configured to accommodate the loaded storage medium thereon, an ejection unit configured to eject the storage medium, and a controller configured to control the loading unit, the chucking unit, and the ejection unit. The ejection unit moves the storage medium to a loading position for loading the storage medium onto the chucking unit when the storage medium is initially inserted. | 05-10-2012 |
20130047172 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - This optical disc device is provided with a disc guide unit for guiding movement of an optical disc while also sliding together with the optical disc as the optical disc is being inserted into the device. A plurality of types of regulating units for abutting the optical disc and regulating travel of the optical disc in an insertion direction are provided to the disc guide unit so as to be changed in accordance with a diameter of the optical disc. | 02-21-2013 |
720623000 | Movable guide | 11 |
20100031280 | Automatic Disk Feeding Device for a Disk Duplication Device and Method Thereof - An automatic disk feeding device for a disk duplication device and method thereof which comprises two transport assemblies disposed at both sides of a disc holder. Each transport assembly comprises a linkage disk which drives a connecting rod to rotate, and then the connecting rod moves a sliding block which cooperates with a push member and a slide rail to slide to and fro. The sliding block is defined with slant pushing grooves, and the slide rail is defined with L-shaped tracks. The push member is provided with pushing protrusions and guiding protrusions inserted in the pushing grooves and the L-shaped tracks. Thereby, the push members can clamp the disc by a horizontal extending method firstly, and then lift the disc, thus automatically taking out the disc in a small space. | 02-04-2010 |
20100138848 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes 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 a disk, and a clamper supporting device for supporting a clamper which clamps the disk to the traverse unit. A disk conveying device conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from a state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. The disk conveying device includes a pair of first and second disk conveying arms which are pivotably attached to the apparatus body and holding a periphery of the disk to convey the disk. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138849 | 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 a disk, and a disk conveying device which conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and which ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from a state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device. The control device includes a single control member for controlling conveyance of the disk by the disk conveying means, for centering of the disk relative to the traverse unit, and for clamping or unclamping the disk relative to a turn table of the traverse unit. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138850 | Disk storage medium processing apparatus - A disk storage medium processing apparatus includes a disk conveying device for conveying a disk between a disk loading/unloading slot of an apparatus body and a centering position of a traverse unit. The disk conveying device includes a pair of first and second disk guide arms which are pivotably disposed on the apparatus body and which can hold the periphery of the disk to convey the disk. Therefore, the disk storage medium processing apparatus can easily and flexibly conduct the control for conveyance of the disk no matter whether the disk has a small diameter or a large diameter, with keeping protection of the recording surface of the disk and can be formed more compactly. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138851 | 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 a disk, and a clamper supporting device for supporting a clamper which clamps the disk to the traverse unit. A disk conveying device conveys the disk into the apparatus body when a part of the disk is inserted through the disk loading/unloading slot and ejects a part of the disk through the disk loading/unloading slot from the state that the disk is housed in the apparatus body. A control device controls the disk conveying device. | 06-03-2010 |
20100319011 | Method for Transporting Discs, Disc Transporting Device and Drawer Type Disc Transporting Device Thereof - A method for transporting discs, A disc transporting device and a drawer type disc transporting device are disclosed. The disc transporting device comprises a lifting mechanism, a swing mechanism and a control element, wherein the lifting mechanism further comprises a clipper element, a drive element and a rotational connection element, the swing mechanism further comprises a corresponding connection element and a swing rotation element. The clipper element can grab at least one disc. The drive element is coupled with the clipper element and drives the lifting mechanism. The rotational connection element engages with the drive element; the corresponding connection element of the swing mechanism corresponds to the rotational connection element to enable the lifting mechanism going up/down along the swing mechanism. The control element engages with the swing rotation element of the swing mechanism to control the swing mechanism. Hence, the clipper element of the lifting mechanism grabs the disc and the drive element drives the lifting mechanism to go up and down. The control element controls the swing mechanism to swing the lifting mechanism. The lifting mechanism for holding the disc can go up/down. The grabbed disc is swung back and forth controlled by the swing mechanism. | 12-16-2010 |
20110072444 | Device for Adjusting Height of Guiding Bar in Slot-In Optical Disk Drive - A device for adjusting the height of a guiding bar in a slot-in optical disk drive is disclosed. The device is disposed on the guiding bar. One end of the guiding bar is pivoted on the pivot on a base plate in the slot-in optical disk drive, and the other end with a screw hole is protruded by a pin to suspend in the slot-in optical disk drive. The device passes through the screw hole to touch the base plate such that the end, with the pin, of the guiding bar is adjusted the height of the guiding bar by taking the pivot as a fulcrum. | 03-24-2011 |
20110185374 | DISC LOADING AND EJECTING STRUCTURE FOR SLOT-IN OPTICAL DISC DRIVES - A disc loading and ejecting structure for a slot-in optical disc drive aims to drive a compact disc into and out of the slot-in optical disc drive to solve the problems of conventional techniques that they are bulky and occupy too much space. The structure includes a driving portion and a guiding portion that are located at two opposite sides of the slot-in optical disc drive. The driving portion includes a roller with the rotation axis parallel with a positioning surface of the compact disc. A first end edge of the compact disc is abutted on the guiding portion and a second end edge is leaned on the roller. The roller can rotate and move reciprocally in parallel with the direction of the rotation axis to drive the compact disc into and out of the slot-in optical disc drive. | 07-28-2011 |
20120023511 | Slot-In Disc Drive Having Adjustable Disc Ejection Distance - A slot-in disc drive is provided to comprise an ejecting lever rotated about a rotating axis; a first sensor and a second sensor, disposed on the rotating path of the ejecting lever; and a firmware, built in the disc drive for selecting a first setting or a second setting according to the size of a loaded disc, wherein the first and the second settings are respectively related to the first and the second sensors, and the firmware controls the ejecting lever to stop rotating based on the selected setting. | 01-26-2012 |
20120042329 | JAM-PROOF DEVICE OF SLOT-IN OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - The invention provides a jam-proof device of a slot-in optical disk drive. In the jam-proof device, a contact pin protrudes from one end of the loading bar, the other end of the loading bar is pivoted with a pivot on a first side of the casing, and a block protrudes adjacent to the pivot. One end of the unloading bar is pivoted on a second side of the casing opposite to the first side, and a reception end is formed at the other end of the unloading bar to extend to a center of the casing. A distance between the block and the reception end at a default position is shorter than a diameter of an 8-cm disc to prevent the disc from entering the slot-in optical disk drive. | 02-16-2012 |
20140026152 | DISK LOADING DEVICE AND DISK DEVICE - An apparatus includes a rotation section to engage with a disk in a housing and rotate the disk around an axis of the disk; an information reading/recording section to carry out reading and/or recording from/to the disk; a holding member to hold the rotation section and/or the information reading/recording section; and a moving section to move the holding member in a direction that the holding member moves toward the disk and/or that the holding member moves away from the disk. The moving section includes a first cam member surrounding at least part of the holding member for arcuate movement along the holding member around an axis. The holding member and/or the first cam member has a grooved portion inclined with respect to a direction along the axis of the arcuate movement while the other has a first engaging portion for engaging with the grooved portion. | 01-23-2014 |