Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
720613000 | Particular tray guide | 23 |
20080263576 | GUIDE MECHANISM FOR OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - A guide mechanism is configured for guiding an optical pick-up head to move on a chassis. The guide mechanism includes a carriage, a first guide rail, a second guide rail, and a buffering device. The carriage includes a main body for receiving the optical pick-up head, and a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion formed on two opposite sides of the main body. The first guide rail is slidably received in a slot of the first engaging portion. The second guide rail is slidably engaging with the second engaging portion. The buffering device is clipped between the first guide rail and the first engaging portion. An optical disk drive using the guide mechanism is also provided. | 10-23-2008 |
20090044209 | SLOT-IN TYPE DISK APPARATUS - The slot-in type disk apparatus in which a base body | 02-12-2009 |
20090113462 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - Disclosed herein is an optical disc apparatus wherein, in order that a flexible printed circuit board that connects a printed circuit board provided on the moving unit of the apparatus which includes a tray to a printed circuit board provided on the fixed unit of the apparatus is prevented from being caught between the bottom case of the apparatus and the bottom cover of the moving unit during the slide-in movement of the tray, convex portions are provided on the inner surface of the top cover that covers the top surface side of the apparatus such that the convex portions are directly opposite or directly above the flexible printed circuit board during the slide-in/slide-out movements of the tray and such that the convex portions are positioned further outwardly from the outer circumference of an optical disc with respect to the rotation center of the optical disc upon completion of the slide-in movement of the tray, and the convex portions guide or slide part of the flexible printed circuit board along the tip end surfaces of the convex portions in the direction of the slide-in movement of the tray when the part of the flexible printed circuit board comes into contact with the inner surface of the top cover during the slide-in movement of the tray. | 04-30-2009 |
20090125924 | Disk Loading Apparatus - A disk loading apparatus includes a tray ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090276797 | HEAD DRIVING DEVICE AND DISK APPARATUS - A pickup head is provided with a second shaft receiving section. A cutout is formed in the second shaft receiving section. A sub shaft supports the pickup head in a movable manner via the second shaft receiving section. A diameter of the sub shaft is smaller than the size of the cutout. A retainer is attached between the second shaft receiving section and the sub shaft. The retainer includes a body section and a pressing section. The body section enters the cutout in a state that a slide groove of the body section slidably fits to the sub shaft. The pressing section is elastically deformed upon contact with the sub shaft when the body section enters the cutout, and biases the second shaft receiving section via the body section such that a lower surface of the cutout is pressed against the sub shaft. | 11-05-2009 |
20100031279 | HOST WITH REMOVABLE DEVICE - A host with a removable device includes a main body, a removable device, and a fixing and withdrawing mechanism. Each element of the fixing and withdrawing mechanism is connected with each other by using a plurality of springs. When the removable device is placed into the host, a slide rod is pushed and a link rod is linked, such that the removable device is fastened in the host by using the link rod. When a user pulls an actuating rod, the link rod is guided to release the fastening state, and the removable device is ejected by using the slide rod under the forces of the springs. | 02-04-2010 |
20100287573 | OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus includes: a disc tray | 11-11-2010 |
20100325645 | DISK GUIDING DEVICE - The present invention is related to a disk guiding device disposed on a disk process device, the disk guiding device comprises a base, a transmitting portion and a slayer. The base is disposed on a main body of the disk process device; the transmitting portion comprises a gear and a positioning module, wherein the gear is pivotally connected to the base and has a long gear and a plurality of short gears, the positioning module is disposed on the base for sustaining and taking the crown of the long gear for confining the rotation angle of the gear. The slayer is disposed and capable of sliding on a plane portion of the base, wherein a plurality of holes are disposed on the salver in sequence from an end-side of the salver toward the perpendicular direction of the end-side, and used for correspondingly engaging with the gear. | 12-23-2010 |
20110185373 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical disc device prevents a rail guide from falling off from a bottom case when a housing receives an impact force. The bottom case | 07-28-2011 |
20110225601 | Disc device including disc loading mechanism - In a disc device including a disc loading mechanism for transporting a disc between an inside and an outside of the disc device, a frame acting as an exterior of the disc device is disposed with at least a motor as a power source, and a switch for controlling the rotation or the stop of the motor by switching on or off, and a pressing unit for switching on or off of the switch is disposed integrally with the frame. With the configuration, the rotation control of the motor as the power source is realized by a simple structure. | 09-15-2011 |
20120072928 | SLIM OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - A slim optical disk drive includes a lower housing, a tray, a protection plate, a flexible cable and an isolated part. The tray is supported by two slide rails for sliding in or sliding out of an opening of the lower housing. The protection plate is for covering a bottom of the tray. The flexible cable includes a plurality of wires. The flexible cable extends toward the opening and is stuck on the lower housing. A curved area is formed by bending the flexible cable near the opening. The flexible cable is accommodated between the protection plate and the lower housing when the tray is slid inside the lower housing. The isolated part is disposed on the protection plate. The isolated part is for shielding predetermined wires of the plurality of the wires to reduce noise of signals. | 03-22-2012 |
20120204197 | OPTICAL DISC DEVICE - An optical disc device includes rails holding a tray so as to be put in and out with respect to a case and rail guides attached to a bottom chassis of the case to movably hold the rails, in which the rail guides have cross sections orthogonal to the running direction of the rails in a generally U shape and at least either one of the rail guides is formed with a projection in a part of the bottom surface abutting upon the rail. The projection is formed in an end range on the front face side of the case in the rail guide, and the rail rides on the projection of the rail guide when the tray is drawn out from the case. | 08-09-2012 |
20120260271 | GROUND UNIT AND DISK DRIVE HAVING THE SAME - Provided are a ground unit and a disk drive including the ground unit. The ground unit is disposed on a guide frame which is installed on opposite sides of a main chassis for guiding a guide chassis that is connected to a tray. The ground unit electrically connects the main chassis and the guide frame to each other. | 10-11-2012 |
20120311615 | OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - An optical disk apparatus includes a tray mounting an optical disk and a casing which stores the tray so that the tray may be inserted into and ejected from the casing. The tray has a guide rail on at least one of parallel sides relative to the direction of tray insertion or ejection and for guiding the movement of tray in the direction of tray insertion or ejection. The casing has rail guides formed on a side section of the casing in opposition with the guide rails when the tray is inserted and for guiding the guide rail, and a spring member formed on a frontend of the rail guides in the direction of tray insertion or ejection to provide elastic deformation when a force toward the tray insertion direction is applied to the spring member. | 12-06-2012 |
20130007779 | TRAY FOR PREVENTING GREASE SCATTERING - The present invention is related to a tray of an optical disc drive. In a tray according to one embodiment of the present invention, a flutter hole is formed in the middle of the tray providing space through which an optical pick-up moves toward an inner or outer circumferential area of an optical disc and a guide vane is formed to prevent contamination of the optical disc caused as grease spread on a lead screw of a sled motor for moving the optical pick-up moves according to air flow due to rotation of the optical disc. The guide vane can be formed only in a surface in which the lead screw is installed among two vertical side surfaces forming a boundary of a flutter hole of the tray and the guide vane can be formed at a position corresponding to an outer circumferential area of the optical disc. | 01-03-2013 |
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 |
20130104155 | OPTICAL DISK DRIVE - Provided is a disk loading apparatus which includes a frame base on which a spindle motor is mounted. The apparatus includes a disk loading structure that loads a disk on the spindle motor, a plurality of sliders operating in connection with a loading lever, and a plurality of gears transferring the motive power to the plurality of sliders. The apparatus also includes a plurality of shafts to which the gears are coupled, and a plurality of slider guide walls that guide movement of the plurality of sliders. According to various aspects, the shafts and the slider guide walls are formed integrally with the frame base. | 04-25-2013 |
20130139188 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device with multi-phase mechanism including a host, a storage device and a carriage is provided in the present invention. The storage device is slidably disposed in the host and adapted to be pulled out from the host. The carriage is slidably disposed in the storage device and adapted to be pulled out from the storage device. Through the storage device slidably disposing in the host and being adapted to be pulled out from the host, it facilitates the user to take or replace a content from the storage device. When the carriage is moved out from the storage device in a first phase and then the storage device is pulled out from the host in a second phase, the content in the storage device is taken out. | 05-30-2013 |
20130139189 | DISK DRIVE DEVICE - A disk drive device that can prevent warping deformation in upward and downward directions of a disk tray and can prevent vibration in a warping deformation mode without producing a rattle vibration is provided. A disk drive device has a casing and a disk tray on which the spindle motor and the pickup are mounted; and a pair of parallel first and second guide mechanisms that slidably supports the disk tray so as to eject the disk tray from the casing to the outside. In the disk drive device, in a center part in a width direction along the disk mount surface of an introduction side distal end part of the disk tray, an introduction side abutment part having a groove section or a protruding portion is formed, and an inner part abutment part formed on an elastic member is installed on an inner side inner wall part. | 05-30-2013 |
20130276003 | OPTICAL DISC UNIT - A disadvantage is reduced in which a front panel of an optical disc unit tilts by a clearance (rattle) between the components and contacts with a body of a PC incorporating the unit to cause malfunction of insertion and ejection of discs. A disc tray is provided to move relative to rail guides attached to a bottom case of the optical disc unit via rails. The disc tray and rail guides have projection portions to contact with each other with stress. As a result, the clearance is reduced and the disadvantage due to the malfunction is reduced. The contact of the projection portions is close to point contact. The number of the contact positions is three or four. Support portions are provided to the rail guides to generate the stress. | 10-17-2013 |
20140007143 | DISC DRIVE UNIT AND APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME | 01-02-2014 |
20140053168 | OPTICAL DISC DRIVE - Provided is an optical disc drive including a tray disposed in a case of the optical disc drive. The tray includes a guide fixed to the case, and a rail connected with the tray. The guide guides the rail as the tray is moved in and out of the optical disc drive. The rail further includes a supporter that is configured to stably support the rail with respect to the guide to prevent derailment of the rail from the guide. | 02-20-2014 |
20160027465 | GATE STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - An electronic and a gate structure including a first door-leaf, a second door-leaf, and a latch are provided. The first door-leaf having three first locking portions is movably assembled to an entrance of an object. The second door-leaf having two second locking portions is movably disposed at the first door-leaf, such that the first door-leaf closes or opens the entrance. The latch having a third locking portion and a fourth locking portion is movably disposed on the first door-leaf and between the first and the second door-leaves. The first locking portions are located on a moving path of the third locking portion. The second door-leaf is locked to the object and the third locking portion is located at the middle one of the three first locking portions, the fourth locking portion is blocked with one second locking portion and the first door-leaf covers the entrance. | 01-28-2016 |