| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
|---|
| 720614000 | Multiple trays | 12 |
| 20090055847 | DISC DEVICE - A disc device is capable of suppressing movement of discs remaining on standby. Discs are moved upward and downward, thereby providing an operation space S at a lower side of the desired disc, and a pivotal arm is located in a predetermined position, and thereafter the desired disc is set on the pivotal arm, and recording/reproduction is effected. At this time, the standby discs disposed at the lower side of the desired disc are disposed below the operation space (S), and are fixed by pressing pressing members of disc fixing portions against outer peripheral surfaces thereof. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090064213 | Multi Disc Tray With Flexible Side Wall Disc Locking Arms - A container to hold optical disk media is described, incorporating disc locking arms to loosely retain discs when the container is open, and securely retain discs when the container is closed. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090119691 | DISC CHANGER - The invention provides a disc changer including a plurality of trays which can be moved respectively in a horizontal direction, a tray driving gear unit capable of shuttling the trays between a standby position and a disc exchange position, a gear driving mechanism for driving the tray driving gear unit, a tray triggering unit capable of locking/unlocking the trays in the standby position, pushing all trays to engage with the tray driving gear unit after unlocking the trays, and driving the trays toward the disc exchange position, wherein all trays in the standby position can be unlocked and pushed to engage with the tray driving gear unit, and ejected outward from a mechanical chassis by a predetermined tray stroke, thereafter the trays are driven back to the standby position one by one, and when the last tray reaches the standby position all trays are locked. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090222845 | DISC CHANGER DEVICE - The disc changer device, for housing a plurality of discs, and transporting a selected disc to carry out a recording/reproducing operation on the disc, is provided with a plurality of trays, a first tray driving unit for moving the tray reciprocatingly between a stand-by position and a recording/reproducing position, a traverse unit having an optical pickup and a turn table, a clamp unit for moving the traverse unit to a clamp position as well as to a retreat position, a pickup moving unit for moving the optical pickup, a first motor for driving the first tray driving unit, the pickup moving unit and the clamp unit, an elevation unit that raises and lowers the traverse unit, a second tray driving unit for moving the tray reciprocatingly between the stand-by position and an exchange position, and a second motor for driving the elevation unit and the second tray driving unit. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222846 | DISC CHANGER DEVICE - The disc changer device, for transporting a tray to a stand-by position where trays are housed in a stacked state, to a disc exchange position where a disc on the tray is exchanged, as well as to a disc recording/reproducing position where a recording/reproducing operation is carried out on the disc on the selected tray, is provided with a plurality of tray locking units that are prepared in association with the respective trays, and engaged with a corresponding trays so that each of the corresponding trays is prevented from being transported from the stand-by position to the disc exchange position, and an engagement releasing unit for releasing engagement between the selected tray and the tray locking unit related to the selected tray as well as engagement between a tray adjacent to the selected tray on a lower side thereof and the tray locking unit related to the adjacent tray. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090222847 | TRAY CARRY-OUT METHOD FOR DISC CHANGER DEVICE - The tray carry-out method for a disc changer device, comprising, while transporting the tray from a recording/reproducing position to a stand-by position by driving the first motor, starting to drive the second motor for bringing a tray driving gear unit into a tray simultaneously transportable state, and upon completion of the transport of the tray to the stand-by position, with the tray driving gear unit being set to the tray simultaneously transportable state, starting to drive the second motor to carry out the tray from the stand-by position to an exchange position. | 09-03-2009 |
| 20090254928 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical disc device is capable of achieving a size reduction by ensuring a rigidity of a tray and also executing a stable disc transferring/ejecting operation by preventing such a situation that a projection on the recording face side of the disc is stuck. In an optical disc device, a cam portion configured to include a holder that is supported on the outside of a cam member to turn and move vertically is provided in a position that is in vicinity of a tray being supported by elevator cam gears. In disc loading/ejecting operations, the cam portion is turned and a projecting portion pushes down a tray projecting portion of the tray, so that a space S if formed between the tray and the disc. Since the tray is shaped into a closed circular tray, a rigidity of the tray can be ensured and also the space used to avoid a contact between a projecting portion on a lower face of the disc and a surface of the tray can be provided by bending the tray. | 10-08-2009 |
| 20100088712 | DISK HOLDER, DISK ALIGNMENT MECHANISM AND DISK DRIVE - A disk holder, disk alignment mechanism and disk drive employing same that for permitting accurate alignment of a disk are provided. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100125862 | DISK HOLDING DEVICE AND DISK PROCESSOR - A disk holding device for a disk having a center hole is provided. A disk holding mechanism is movable between a holding position and a release position, for engagement with an edge of the center hole when in the holding position, and for coming away from the edge when in the release position. A solenoid as actuator shifts the disk holding mechanism, to hold the disk by setting the disk holding mechanism in the holding position, and to release the disk by setting the disk holding mechanism in the release position. A regulating portion contacts a peripheral portion of an upper surface of the disk, to keep the disk retained on the disk holding mechanism by preventing skew relative to the disk holding mechanism. Preferably, the disk holding mechanism enters the center hole downwards and holds the disk on a lower side. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100138845 | STORAGE DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT - A storage device includes a first loading tray to comprise a loading surface on which to abut a non-recording surface of said portable recording medium, a second loading tray to comprise a loading surface, parallel with the loading surface of said first loading tray, on which to abut a recording surface of said portable recording medium loaded in the way of being turned in the same direction as that of the recording surface of said portable recording medium loaded into said first loading tray, and an access unit disposed on the side of the recording surface to access the recording surface of said portable recording medium even in such a case that said portable recording medium is loaded into any one of said first loading tray and said second loading tray. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20120192211 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - [Problem] The problem is to provide a system with a large capacity as the recording and regenerating apparatus through piling optical disks and stocking the piled optical disks compactly. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20140089950 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - The present disclosure provides an optical disc device with which the disc replacing time can be further suppressed. The optical disc device according to the present disclosure performs, in parallel, a first control to convey a first tray in the first optical disc drive group | 03-27-2014 |
