Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080301724 | Disk recording and/or reproducing device - A disk recording and/or reproducing device includes a disk tray having a concave disk housing portion for putting in and taking out a disk-like recording medium; a tray housing case supporting the disk tray so as to be movable in a direction in which the disk tray is inserted and ejected; and a disk cover mounted to the tray housing case and covering over the disk housing portion of the disk tray when the disk tray is housed in the tray housing case. The disk cover includes an annular contact portion at an outer periphery thereof, extending outwardly and continuous in a circumferential direction thereof, a dimension of a width of the annular contact portion is larger than that of a thickness of the disk cover, and the annular contact portion is brought into contact with an entire periphery of the disk housing portion of the disk tray. | 12-04-2008 |
20110119691 | DISC LOADING MECHANISM - A disc loading mechanism transporting a disc between a disc cartridge and a recording and reproducing apparatus includes: a loading arm having at a leading end thereof claw members which comes into contact with an outer circumference of the disc and performs drawing of the disc into the recording and reproducing apparatus and insertion of the disc into the disc cartridge; an arm driving mechanism which slides the loading arm in a disc transport direction; a disc extruding lever which extrudes the disc up to a contact position with the claw members when discharging the disc; and a lever driving mechanism which drives the extrusion lever, wherein each of the claw members includes a draw-in surface portion and an insertion surface portion provided at the opposite side to the draw-in surface portion. | 05-19-2011 |
20110119693 | CARTRIDGE DRIVE APPARATUS - A cartridge drive apparatus for a disc cartridge having upper and lower shells which are separatably joined to each other to form a cartridge body is disclosed, in which a accommodated disc is able to be inserted or ejected by separating the upper and lower shells vertically. The cartridge drive apparatus includes a cartridge holder which, by inserting the cartridge body, has an upper holder supporting the upper shell and a lower holder supporting the lower shell, and a holder moving mechanism which separates the upper holder and the lower holder of the cartridge holder to separate the upper shell and the lower shell and thus is able to allow the disc to be inserted or ejected. | 05-19-2011 |
20110225602 | DISC CARTRIDGE - A disc cartridge includes upper and lower shells making up a cartridge body, and with the lower shell, a first-rectangular plate, and disc holders making up the side wall of the cartridge body provided to first-side edges of the first-rectangular plate, and also slidably supporting a disc are provided, and second-side edges which face each other are opened, with the upper shell, a second-rectangular plate, standing wall members provided to third-side edges of the second-rectangular plate, making up the front and rear faces of the cartridge body, and a dividing wall provided to fourth-side edges are provided, and with the disc holders, an disc insertion/ejection opening from the second-side edges is provided to one edge, and a push-out opening for a disc push-out member is provided to the other edge, and when the shells are combined together, the second-side edges are closed, and are opened when the shells are separated. | 09-15-2011 |
20110296445 | DISC CHANGER - A disc changer includes: a disc cartridge having a case body in which a plurality of disc-shaped recording media are storable by being arrayed in the axial direction of the center axis, and an information input medium to which at least information relating to pitch between disc-shaped recording media and the number of stored disc-shaped recording media is input; a disc holder configured to hold the disc cartridge, a portion of which is moveable in the center axial direction of the disc-shaped recording media; and a movement mechanism including an encoder, configured to determine a stop position in the center axial direction of the disc holder based on information input to the information input medium. | 12-01-2011 |
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 |
20110296449 | DISK CARTRIDGE - A disk cartridge includes a case body that can house a plurality of disk-shaped recording media and is joined or separated by making a first shell contact with/separate from a second shell in an axial direction, and a lock lever that is rotatably supported and locks the first shell and the second shell in a joining manner, in the inside of the case body. A disk inserting/ejecting slot is formed, a supporting shaft is provided to the case body, the lock lever includes a supported part, a lock part, and a lock-release part, the first shell is provided with an open/close panel that includes an insertion hole, an insertion protrusion part that is inserted into the insertion hole of the open/close panel is provided to an end part of the lock-release part, and an end face of the insertion protrusion part is formed as an inclined face. | 12-01-2011 |
20110296450 | DISC CARTRIDGE - A disc cartridge includes a case body in which a plurality of disc-shaped recording media can be stored being arranged in the axial direction of a central shaft and which includes a first shell having a base face portion parallel to a recording face of the recording medium and a second shell having a basal plane portion parallel to the recording face, which move toward or away from each other in the axial direction, thereby being combined with or separated from each other, wherein the second shell has a pair of side face portions protruding in the same direction from both end portions of the basal plane portion and situated facing each other, a thin-walled portion is formed at a central portion between the side face portions in the basal plane portion, and a bridge member which is attached to span the side face portions is provided. | 12-01-2011 |
20110296451 | DISK CARTRIDGE - A disk cartridge includes a case body that is capable of housing a plurality of disk-shaped recording media and is joined or separated by making a first shell contact with/separate from a second shell in an axial direction, and a lock lever that is rotatably supported and locks the first shell and the second shell in a joining manner, in the inside of the case body. A supporting shaft is provided to the case body, the lock lever includes a supported part and a lock part, a disk inserting/ejecting slot is formed, an open/close panel is provided to the first shell, the lock lever is supported on an end part of the case body, and an insertion concave part in which the lock part of the lock lever can be inserted and engaged is formed within an inner face of the open/close panel. | 12-01-2011 |
20120120786 | DISC CARTRIDGE - A disc cartridge includes a case body for receiving disc-shaped recording media in an axial direction of a central shaft so that first and second shells respectively having a base surface portion parallel to a recording surface of the disc-shaped recording media are coupled separated by axial engagement/disengagement; and a lock lever supported perpendicular to the axial direction in the case body and locking the shells coupled. The shells are separated to form a disc insertion/extraction hole for the insert or discharge of the disc-shaped recording media into/from the case body. A support shaft serving as a pivoting point of the lock lever is installed to the case body. The lock lever includes a supported portion supported by the support shaft, a lock portion protruding from the supported portion and locking the shells, and a balance portion protruding from the supported portion approximately opposite to protrusion of the lock portion. | 05-17-2012 |
20120292158 | DISK TRANSPORTATION DEVICE AND DISK STORAGE SYSTEM - A disk transportation device includes a pair of rotation arms that are rotatable respectively about a fulcrum shaft extending in the same direction as the axial direction of a center shaft of a disk-shaped recording medium in both sides thereof that pinch the transportation passage of the disk-shaped recording medium transported between a disk changer and a disk drive device; and four transportation rollers of which two at a time are rotatably supported on the pair of rotation arms respectively, wherein the four transportation rollers contact the outer peripheral surface of the disk-shaped recording medium respectively and the pair of rotation arms are rotated in opposite directions to each other in a state where one of the transportation rollers at a time is supported at the pair of the rotation arms respectively contact the outer peripheral surface of the disk-shaped recording medium. | 11-22-2012 |
20120301252 | CARTRIDGE TRANSPORTING DEVICE - A cartridge transporting device includes: a cartridge holder in which a cartridge receiving a recording medium is inserted and which holds the inserted cartridge; a supporting frame that supports the cartridge holder to be freely move between an insertion position and a drawn-in position; a locking member that moves between a locking position and a non-locking position, moves to the locking position, and locks the cartridge holder at the insertion position; a holder driving member that is movable in a predetermined direction and moves the cartridge holder between the insertion position and the drawn-in position; and a moving mechanism that moves the holder driving member in the predetermined direction, wherein when the cartridge holder starts to move from the insertion position to the drawn-in position, the holder driving member moves such that the cartridge holder locked by the locking member is unlocked. | 11-29-2012 |
20130057982 | DISC CONVEYING DEVICE - A disc conveying device includes a route adjuster which is pressed and turned by a disc-shaped recording medium being conveyed in a direction orthogonal to a central axis direction in a lead-in direction of being extracted and led in from a disc cartridge and an ejecting direction of being stored in the disc cartridge after being ejected; wherein a positioning groove is formed to the route adjuster, in which a peripheral portion of the disc-shaped recording medium is inserted at the time of the disc-shaped recording medium being conveyed, so as to position the disc-shaped recording medium. | 03-07-2013 |
20130061254 | DISC CONVEYING DEVICE - A disc conveying device includes a pair of rails positioned on opposite sides across a disc-shaped recording medium transported in the lead-in direction or ejecting direction in a direction orthogonal to a center axis direction, and extending in the direction of the conveyed disc-shaped recording medium; link arms that are turnably supported to a base chassis, are turnable as to the pair of rails, and move in parallel in a direction of separating the rails from the peripheral face of the disc-shaped recording medium; conveying rollers that convey the disc-shaped recording medium by being supported by the rails, and touch the peripheral face of the disc-shaped recording medium with at least one conveying roller rotating; and an ejecting lever that is turnable as to at least one of the rails, by which turning the peripheral face of the disc-shaped recording medium is pressed, and the disc-shaped recording medium is conveyed. | 03-07-2013 |
20140310731 | DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - There is provided a disk drive apparatus including a first chassis unit that has a first pickup base at which a first optical pickup has been disposed, and a second chassis unit that has a second pickup base at which a pulley supporting part has been provided and at which a second optical pickup has been disposed. A disk table on which a disk-like recording medium is loaded is disposed at the first pickup base. A support hole is formed in the pulley supporting part. A chucking pulley that sandwiches and holds the disk-like recording medium together with the disk table is supported by the pulley supporting part in a state of being inserted in the support hole. At the chucking pulley, provided are an escape part, a flange part, and a clamp part. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310732 | DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - There is provided a disk drive apparatus including a first chassis unit that has a first pickup base supported by the first base chassis through an elastically deformable insulator, and a second chassis unit that has a second pickup base supported by the second base chassis through an elastically deformable insulator. At least one of the first chassis unit and the second chassis unit is moved in a thickness direction of the disk-like recording medium, and the first pickup base and the second pickup base are connected to or separated from each other. Positioning parts for performing positioning of the first pickup base and the second pickup base at a time of connection are provided at the first pickup base and the second pickup base, respectively. The first pickup base and the second pickup base are connected to each other by magnetic forces of magnets. | 10-16-2014 |
20140310733 | DISK DRIVE APPARATUS - There is provided a disk drive apparatus including a first chassis unit that has a pickup base at which an optical pickup and a disk table have been disposed, and a first base chassis to which the pickup base has been attached, and a second chassis unit that has a second base chassis and at which a chucking pulley has been disposed. A first rectifying plate part is provided at the first base chassis. A second rectifying plate part is provided at the second base chassis. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317643 | DISK CONVEYING DEVICE - Provided is a disk conveying device including a conveying mechanism configured to convey a disk-like recording medium inside and outside a disk cartridge including a plurality of holding grooves into which both end portions of the disk-like recording medium positioned at opposite sides with a center hole interposed therebetween are inserted, the plurality of holding grooves being formed in a line in a thickness direction of the disk-like recording medium, and a discharge lever configured to press an outer circumferential surface of the disk-like recording medium to the disk cartridge side when the disk-like recording medium is conveyed by the conveying mechanism. | 10-23-2014 |
20140325165 | MEMORY APPARATUS AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT METHOD - A memory apparatus includes a detection unit, a storage unit, an update unit, and a determination unit. The detection unit is configured to detect a deterioration factor of a nonvolatile memory. The storage unit is configured to hold a lifetime estimation value. The update unit is configured to update the lifetime estimation value on the basis of the deterioration factor detected by the detection unit. The determination unit is configured to use the lifetime estimation value updated by the update unit to generate a notification signal. | 10-30-2014 |