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| 20080209455 | Disc drive with a small-sized circuit board - A disc drive has a loader, a traverse, a circuit board and a supporting frame. The loader has a first side wall, a second side wall and a third side wall that is perpendicular to the first side wall and the second side wall, with these three side walls forming an inner space. The traverse is disposed in the inner space of the loader and has a spindle motor and a pickup head disposed on it for rotating a disc and reading the data in the disc, respectively. The circuit board is electrically coupled to the pickup head for processing the data from the pickup head, and has a first side, a second side and a third side that is perpendicular to the first side and the second side. The supporting frame extends from the second side wall of the loader to the inner space and has a supporting surface. The third side of the circuit board is shorter than the third side wall of the loader, and the second side of the circuit board is disposed on the supporting surface of the supporting frame. | 08-28-2008 |
| 20080229341 | DISC TRANSPORT WITH AN IMPROVED DISC ENGAGEMENT MECHANISM - The present invention provides an apparatus for supporting and transferring a storage disc comprising a disc engagement mechanism including at least one movable component, the at least one movable component including a first component having a first upper plate and an apex, a valley configured to support a first portion of the first disc, the first portion located beneath the first upper plate, and a second component having a second upper plate, a sidewall that is generally perpendicular to the second upper plate and a tapered lip. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080229342 | METHOD FOR PICKING AND PLACING A DISC - The present invention provides a disc transport having an improved design for providing efficient operation and improved engagement to one or more storage discs. In one aspect, the present invention provides a disc transport having a disc engagement mechanism and an engagement area including the at least one disc having a disc hole, wherein the at least one disc is generally misaligned with the at least one engagement area, one or more discs therebelow, the disc engagement mechanism thereabove, or combinations thereof. The engagement mechanism is moved in a generally parallel direction to that of the at least one disc to generally align the at least one disc with the at least one engagement area, the one or more discs therebelow, the disc engagement mechanism thereabove, or combinations thereof. In another aspect, the present invention provides a method for aligning at least one disc within an engagement area. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080256565 | DISC TRANSPORT AND METHOD OF DISC REMOVAL - An apparatus for disc publishing comprising a disc transport movable along a first slide member, the disc transport including: an engagement mechanism for selective engagement of at least one disc, a print assembly for printing to the at least one disc, the print assembly including one or more print heads movable along a second slide member; and a print tray adapted to receive the at least one disc from the disc transport; a recording device for recording to the at least one disc, the recording device including a recording tray adapted to receive and record to the at least one disc from the disc transport; a disc supply receptacle adapted to receive one or more discs, the disc supply receptacle being positioned below and in alignment along an engagement axis with the engagement mechanism for selective engagement of the at least one disc; and a control unit adapted to control the functions of the disc publishing device; wherein the disc transport and the one or more prints heads are adapted to move independent of each other wherein the print tray and the recording tray have an open position that is in alignment along the engagement axis for selective engagement of the at least one disc by the engagement mechanism. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080320505 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - For the optical disc drive in the invention, the holder, the gear set and the transmission part and other components have mechanical interacting relationship, and therefore, when the power of the optical disc drive is cut off, the optical disc still can be ejected from the casing by the mechanical interaction of the components. An optical disc drive including a casing, a holder, a motor, a first and second gear sets, and a transmission part is provided. The holder which can move between a first and second position is disposed in the casing. When the holder moves to the second position, the second gear set is away from the first gear set at a distance, and the transmission part drives the disc to eject from the casing by the external force. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090007166 | Optical Disc Device - To provide an optical disc device in which the number of parts is small, and quietness can be secured with a simple mechanism. The optical disc device includes a main body having a disc insertion/removal port, and a conveying roller for conveying a disc between the disc insertion/removal port and a disc receiving position in the main body, and also includes a swinging lever which is pivotally supported at its proximal end on a supporting shaft within the main body, and has a disc arrival switch fixed thereto, and a detection lever which is pivotally supported at its proximal end on the supporting shaft, and contacts an outer periphery of the disc (which is to be received in the disc receiving position) at its distal end to operate the disc arrival switch, and when the disc is to be inserted into the disc receiving position, the detection lever is projected into the disc receiving position. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090044210 | Slot-in Type Disk Apparatus - It is an object of the present invention to prevent fine vibration of a traverse base at the time of playback of a disk in a slot-in type disk apparatus. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090049460 | Loading mechanism for loading an interchangeable disc-like storage meduim into a housing - The invention relates to a loading mechanism for loading an interchangeable disc-like storage medium into a housing, in which a disk drive having a holder for the storage medium and an optical scanning device for the latter are arranged. It achieves the object of providing a loading mechanism which is space-saving and permits loading and unloading which takes care of the motor of the disk drive and of the storage medium. For this purpose, this loading mechanism is formed from a loading table for the storage medium which can be pivoted between a loading position and a deposition position on the holder, and an actuating apparatus for said loading table. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090049461 | Disc Player - There is provided a disc player which can be reduced in the number of parts and in cost, and which can be designed to be thin and provided with a function of sufficiently self-holding a lock state. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090133045 | Compact disk deck apparatus for vehicles - A compact disk (CD) deck apparatus for vehicles comprises a CD deck body having a gate through which a CD is to be loaded and unloaded, and a guide unit provided on the gate to guide the loading and unloading of the CD. The guide unit includes a housing provided on the gate, a turning plate provided in the housing so as to be able to rotate in an unloading direction of the CD, and a guide piece protruding from the turning plate such that one CD is loaded into the gate. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090249376 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an optical disc apparatus includes a disc motor configured to hold and rotate an optical disc, a motor support mechanism configured to support the disc motor to be movable, a motor lift mechanism configured to ascend and descend the disc motor among a ascending position, a descending position, and a disc drive position between the ascending position and the descending position, a clamp release member arranged to be movable between a clamp release position, at which the clamp release member contacts with the optical disc to regulate movement of the optical disc, and an evacuate position at which the clamp release member is separated from the optical disc, and a release member lift mechanism configured to ascend and descend the clamp release member in synchronism with the ascent and descent of the disc motor. | 10-01-2009 |
| 20110239235 | Motor and optical disk driving device having motor - Disclosed is a motor including a rotor body mounted on a shaft and a chucking mechanism body mounted on a rotor hub, which are coupled with an increased coupling force by changing a coupling structure of the rotor hub of the rotor body and the chucking mechanism body mounted on the rotor hub. The motor includes: a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft; a rotor body having a rotor hub mounted on the shaft; and a chucking mechanism body having a boss with a through hole in which the rotor hub is insertedly coupled and a space part formed within the boss and providing an elastic force when the rotor hub is coupled. Because a force of restitution resulting from an elastic deformation of the boss provided in the chucking mechanism body can be increased through the space part, namely, because a pressing force applied to the rotor hub of the rotor body can be increased by the boss, the coupling force between the rotor hub of the rotor body and the boss of the chucking mechanism body can be increased and, in addition, the coupling force between the rotor hub of the rotor body and the boss of the chucking mechanism body can be further increased by the release preventing unit. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110258644 | UTILIZING A DISC VAULT - A system is described, which includes a disc vault, which may hold a number of discs, and a media server. The media server includes a storage device, and is coupled to the disc vault. The media server is configured to determine whether a disc associated with digital content is present in the disc vault, and is further configured to receive a request for access to the digital content. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20120005696 | DISC IDENTIFYING DEVICE - A disc identifying device has sliders moving relatively in a direction such that a gap therebetween widens, one sensing switch switching-operated when a large diameter disc or a small diameter disc is inserted, the other sensing switch switching-operated only when the large diameter disc is inserted, and an actuating plate permitting the slider to move from an the initial position via a first position corresponding to the sensing switch to a second position corresponding to the sensing switch only when the large diameter disc is inserted. One end portion of the actuating plate has a stopper portion for preventing the slider from moving to the second position. The other end portion thereof is engaged with the slider. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20130312016 | EMERGENCY EJECTION DEVICE FOR A SLOT-IN OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - An emergency ejection device is disclosed for a slot-in optical disc drive. A thin stick inserts into an ejection hole to rotate an ejection plate for an emergency ejection. A guide pin slides along a guide slot to rotate a release bar such that a clutch gear at the other end of the release bar departs from a self-locking power unit. Then the ejection plate moves a rack to rotate a ratchet unit at a predetermined direction for driving a transmission gear unit to unload a disc. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20140040925 | TURN TABLE FOR SPINDLE MOTOR - A turn table of a spindle motor is provided, wherein an outer diameter of a vertical portion at the disk insertion unit facing an inner periphery of a small-diameter disk is smaller by 0.01% to 0.15% than the inner periphery of the small-diameter disk to enable a chucking of the small-diameter disk having an inner diameter of an inner periphery smaller than 15 mm. | 02-06-2014 |
| 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 |
| 20160254021 | HOLOGRAM RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS | 09-01-2016 |
