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7298585 Storage medium load and unload apparatus with an impact diverter  
A storage medium load and unload apparatus for diverting a storage medium insertion impact force is provided. The load and unload apparatus comprises a shuttle having a first pin with a first...
7295399 Floppy disk drive  
A floppy disk drive includes a frame having a bottom portion and left and right walls and a casing for covering the frame. The casing includes an upper cover for covering an upper side of the frame...
7271979 Flexible disk drive having an eject base usable as a cover  
In a flexible disk drive for a flexible disk, a main frame defines a receiving portion for receiving the flexible disk. The main frame has a principal surface which faces the receiving portion and...
7227718 Front shutter attaching structure and flexible disk drive having the same  
A front shutter ( 13′ ) comprises arm portions ( 132, 133 ) formed at both ends of an upper side of a door member ( 131 ). While one shaft portion ( 136 ) is formed on one of the arm portions (...
7151646 Flexible disk drive  
A flexible disk drive includes a case and a disk holder provided in the case. A flexible disk is mounted on the disk holder. A part of the disk holder abuts against an inner face of the case....
7136259 Frame structure and flexible disk drive having the same  
In order to provide a positioning mechanism that can be processed easily and accurately by press forming and a frame structure having the same, especially a main frame and a method of manufacturing...
7100174 CD drive which will not damage an optical disk  
A CD drive includes an upper cover, a disk tray, a clamp, a push piece, and a guiding rod. The upper cover includes a guiding track and the disk tray is installed below the upper cover in a...
6947254 Interchangeable cartridge data storage system for devices performing diverse functions  
A system for exchanging digital data among a plurality of hand-held computer devices. Digital signals are written by a first hand-held device to a mini-cartridge that mini-cartridge is...
6922839 Cartridge for protecting optical recording media  
There is provided an optical recording media cartridge, which is provided with a case that accommodates the optical recording media and that has an opening, and a shutter that is attached to the...
6906891 Flexible disk drive having a frame structure comprising a main frame and a sub-frame of a lower cover  
A main frame has a size where only high precision parts are mounted thereon and has structure where a front portion of a frame is deleted. A lower cover, which covers a lower surface of the main...
6901650 Adjusting method for an optical disc apparatus  
A relative adjustment between an optical disc rotating mechanism and an optical pickup is adjusted by rotating a rotary member against a biasing force of an engaging projection. As the rotary...
6876516 Disk drive having a reinforcing arrangement against an external stress applied thereto  
In a disk drive for using a disk cartridge including a magnetic disk, a reinforcing arrangement is coupled to a main frame, a main board fixed to the main frame, and a head assembly which is...
6868049 Method and system for accessing multiple rows of media objects in an automated storage library using a single track robotic mechanism  
A method and system for accessing media objects in an automated storage library using a robotic mechanism included mounting the robotic mechanism to a horizontally arranged track arranged in the...
6845415 Computing system capable of controlling disk loading and disk unloading operations of an optical disk drive  
A computing system is adapted for use with an optical disk drive, and includes a motherboard and a control key. The motherboard is adapted to be coupled electrically to the optical disk drive. The...
6807026 Disk drive having a structure for preventing a front shutter from coming off from a main frame  
A projecting portion is formed on an edge, which provides a notch for an eject button, of a front shutter of an FDD. The projecting portion projects toward the eject button. The eject button...
6804082 Disk drive having a front shutter attaching structure capable of preventing a front shutter from coming off from a main frame  
A front shutter attaching structure comprises flanges formed on peripheral surfaces of coaxial pivots of a front shutter and hooks formed at a cover for covering an upper side of a main frame. The...
6738221 Magnetic recording unit with lid  
A disk drive motor ( 5 ) for driving and rotating a recording medium (disk), a head ( 57 ) for recording or playing back information to/from this disk, and a head drive mechanism for driving the...
6690574 Electronic apparatus  
An electronic apparatus includes a moving support member moving in a back-and-forth direction of the electronic apparatus, an upper-end support member for supporting an upper end of a front panel...
6667941 Apparatus for loading and ejecting recording medium  
A recording medium loading apparatus having a carrier unit 70 for transferring the disc 11, 12 or disc cartridge 13 between an eject position and a loaded position by moving within a holder ...
6654335 Optical drive loader with a manual disk ejecting mechanism  
The invention presents an optical drive loader with a manual disk ejecting mechanism comprising a frame, a disk receiving apparatus, a speed reduction apparatus, a driving apparatus, and a disk...
6628476 Disk drive which prevents misthreading  
A threader prevents misthreading of a flexible magnetic media when it is inserted into a disk drive. The threader is situated in the disk drive such that it has a height greater than a height of a...
6621785 Cartridge loading mechanism for optical storage device  
Disclosed herein is a storage device including a turntable assembly movable between a raised position and a lowered position, a load plate adapted to move from a first position to a second position...
6594110 Removable disk drive  
To provide a removable disk drive which can discharge static electricity with which a recording disk is charged, which does not produce noise and metal powder when a spindle motor shaft is rotated,...
6570737 Disk drive apparatus  
To perform ejection of a disk cartridge and head loading (landing) and/or unloading (takeoff) with a single driving source and prevent damage to a disk upon head landing and takeoff. A cam...
6560067 Flexible disc apparatus having a mechanism for restricting the distance a recording medium is discharged therefrom  
A flexible disc apparatus comprising a frame having a recording medium loading portion, a carriage portion, and a recording medium unloading mechanism portion, which comprises a medium holding...
6556373 Disk apparatus, method of accessing head thereof to disk-like recording medium, and method of retracting the same  
A disk storage apparatus has a magnetic head ( 8 ) that is completely retracted outside of a disk cartridge, except upon a reading/writing operation. The magnetic head ( 8 ) is inserted into the...
6522615 Disk player  
A disk player has a disk cartridge for being loaded thereon, and accommodating a disk-type recording medium. The disk cartridge has a shutter arranged thereon, for performing slide-opening/closing...
6507453 Thin floppy disk drive capable of preventing an eject lever from erroneously operating  
In a thin floppy disk drive comprises a disk shutter arm ( 26 ), rotatably mounted on a disk holder ( 22 ), for opening and closing a shutter ( 43 ) of a floppy disk ( 40 ) and an eject lever ( 25...
6456456 Removable cartridge disk drive with a receiver for receiving a cartridge housing a hard disk  
A disk drive 100 capable of receiving a cartridge 20 having a disk 42 with a diameter of about 3.5 inches which can contain at least 105 megabytes of data includes an operating mechanism 112...
6437940 Floppy disk drive which prevents contact between a disk cartridge and magnetic heads until the disk cartridge is loaded from a loading portion to a recording/reproducing portion  
A cam plate member 24 is provided such that it is supported by a lower chassis 8 so as to rotate freely and rotates in accordance with the inserting/ejecting operation of a disk cartridge 5 ....
6421310 Door open-close device having translating pivot  
The device has a door for opening and closing an insertion opening defined in an apparatus casing to receive an object. The door is pivotally supported by the apparatus casing. The device includes...
6411467 Large-capacity flexible disk and high-density type disk drive used therefor  
A high-density flexible disk capable of accessing a large-capacity flexible disk is provided with a large-capacity detecting switch. The large-capacity flexible disk has a case accommodating a...
6385155 Positioning system for use in an information recording/reproducing apparatus  
A positioning system is provided for use in an information recording/reproducing apparatus for positioning a cartridge containing an information recording medium on a chassis mounting information...
6377451 Door mechanism having spring that urges first and second door panels toward closed positions  
A door mechanism comprises a frame having an insertion port and first and second door panels. The first and second door panels have respective pivot shafts rotatably connected to the frame. These...
6369979 Disk device  
Disclosed is a disk device in which slide pieces slidable along an edge portion of a slide hole formed in a chassis are formed at the central part of both ends of a holder. The forward end of...
6324147 Electronic equipment  
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for a recording medium such as a magneto-optical disk or the like includes an apparatus body and a lid body. An apparatus body has an opening portion used...
6320724 Floppy disk drive unit with contact preventing mechanism  
To provide a floppy disk drive unit in which a magnetic head is prevented from being broken. This floppy disk drive unit 1 includes an upper magnetic head 10a and a lower magnetic head 10b which...
6295180 Disk drive capable of preventing ejection of magnetic recording medium even upon erroneous depression of eject button during work  
A disk drive comprising an upper head holder with has an arm portion extending laterally and placed on an upper plate, a carriage has a carriage lock for stopping longitudinal movements of the...
6239946 Magnetic disk drive  
A magnetic disk drive having an elastic member on any one of a cartridge holder and a slide plate, and engaging portions on the other one, in order that the elastic member engaged with the engaging...
RE37170 Disc loading mechanism in a disc player for positioning a disc and an optical pickup while reducing mechanical shocks to the disc tray  
A loading mechanism of a disc tray onto which recording medium discs such as compact discs, laser discs, or the like are set and which moves between a pull-out position at which the disc tray was...
6222291 Electric motor having axially centered ball bearings  
A bearing design for a rotatable assembly includes two freely rotating balls mounted on the axis of rotation of the assembly and axially separated, one near each axial end of the assembly. Each...
6181511 Platform forward latch with locking feature  
A movable platform is mounted on opposing guide rails within a disk drive. A head actuator and spindle motor are mounted on the movable platform. The platform moves on the guide rails from a...
6172846 Disk drive  
A disk drive capable of preventing an incorrectly inserted cartridge from further advancing in the earliest possible stage of insertion and securing the longest possible stroke of automatic...
6172845 Flexible disc apparatus having unloading amount restricting spring portion  
A flexible disc apparatus includes a frame having a recording medium loading portion, a carriage portion, a recording medium unloading mechanism portion and a magnet portion for attracting a metal...
6151190 Removable disk storage apparatus and device for accessing the recording medium supported therein  
In a removable disk storage apparatus, a reading/writing head can be stably and reliably moved so as to correspond to an information recording medium. A rotation supporting member for supporting...
6122140 Cover opening and closing mechanism of a recording and reproducing apparatus  
A cover is moved to an opened position or a closed position at a back side of an opening of a cabinet. A gap in which the cover can lie down is provided between an upper inner wall of the cabinet...
6118618 Disk cartridge loading device for recording and/or reproducing apparatus  
A disc cartridge loading device for a recording medium utilizes a cartridge holder for holding a disc cartridge used as a recording medium for information signals. The cartridge holder performs a...
6097129 Electronically commutated motor  
An electronically commutated external rotor motor has an external rotor having a cup-shaped housing and a radially magnetized permanent magnet connected in the cup-shaped housing. An interior...
6064549 Flexible magnetic disc apparatus having an elastic loading mechanism portion  
A flexible magnetic disc apparatus comprising a magnetic head portion for recording and reproducing a disc-shaped recording medium and a loading mechanism portion for loading and unloading the...
6064548 Eject system for ejecting a disk cartridge from a disk drive  
An improved disk drive includes an improved operating system, an improved eject system, an improved head retract system and an improved motor loading system. In a preferred embodiment of the...
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