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7375924 Recording medium loading device having rotation cam which drives door opening/closing device  
If a cartridge moves to a complete loading position which is inward of a device by a loading device, a sliding plate moves in Y 2 direction in accordance with the loading device. At this moment,...
7342744 Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus having eject lever contact portion movable from an insertion operation level to a different level at the ejecting operation  
Disclosed herein is a disk recording and/or reproduction apparatus including, a chassis, a recording and/or reproduction means provided on the chassis so as to perform recording and/or reproduction...
7254819 Recording medium drive unit  
A recording medium drive unit includes an insertion opening through which a recording medium is inserted, a holder receiving the recording medium inserted through the insertion opening, a...
7251099 Hard disk drive tray structure with flex circuit extending between exposed sides and connected to metal pad and indicator  
A HDD tray structure is disclosed. The HDD tray structure includes a tray housing, a flexible printed circuit board (FPC) installed on the tray housing, and at least one indicator, wherein one end...
7227744 Data recording device and memory cartridge of data recording device  
A data recording device and a memory cartridge of a data recording device that improve the manipulation of attaching and detaching the memory cartridge and the portability of the memory cartridge....
7213119 Inhibiting access to a portable storage device  
There is provided a portable storage device which makes it possible to largely reduce time that is taken to remove the storage cartridge that is inserted and cannot be handled. A removable hard...
7187542 Disk drive/player positioning structure  
A disk drive/player positioning structure includes a bracket, a sliding bottom plate coupled and movable forwards/backwards relative to the bracket, two sliding side plates coupled between the...
7184264 Connectable memory devices to provide expandable memory  
A memory device is described that is capable of expanding an amount of storage capacity available to a host computer without requiring a user to purchase a new, higher capacity memory device that...
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...
7088643 Magneto optical disc drive having insertion restricting and locking portions  
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing signals on and/or from a recording medium includes a recording and/or reproducing portion for recording and/or reproducing...
7023656 Disk device preventing mechanism locking  
A disk device having a disk loading mechanism including an elastic body retracting space which is formed by cutting away a corner portion of a support portion of a first selector lever that is...
6990727 Method of making disk drives using a frame array with a plurality of disk drive base portions  
An aspect of the invention can be regarded as a method of making disk drives. The method includes providing a frame array. The frame array includes a frame, a plurality of disk drive base portions,...
6985329 Magnetic disk cartridge  
A magnetic disk cartridge for use in a disk drive having both a slot and a guide portion. The magnetic disk cartridge comprises a generally disk-shaped housing in which a magnetic disk is rotatably...
6982933 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus and recording medium cartridge holder  
A recording and/or reproducing apparatus for recording and/or reproducing signals on and/or from a recording medium includes a recording and/or reproducing portion for recording and/or reproducing...
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...
6934119 Disk drive  
A disk drive apparatus according to the present invention includes a horizontal guide mechanism and a vertical guide mechanism, which are disposed between a frame ( 10 ) and a slider ( 60 ) for...
6928557 Method and apparatus for ejecting a recording medium from a storage unit detachable from host equipment  
A detachable storage unit is connected to host equipment in a computer system and holds an ejectable storage medium. The storage unit has a connection detector that detects whether or not the...
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...
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...
6865060 Disk drive device having a lifting plate configured to lift a magnetic head supporting member  
A disc drive device for driving a disc accommodated in a cartridge comprises: a magnetic head; a magnetic head supporting member for supporting the magnetic head to contact the disc and to be...
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...
6829120 Data cartridge load/unload mechanism for disk drive  
A disk drive includes a housing, a cartridge tray, and a cam plate. The cartridge tray is adapted to hold a cartridge that includes a data storage disk. The housing has a pair of vertical cartridge...
6772424 Locking and ejection mechanism for disk drive  
A disk drive has a tray with a chassis secured to the tray, the tray and the chassis being housed inside a housing. The disk drive includes a slide mechanism that is positioned between the chassis...
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...
6717769 Eject button for disk drive with light pipe  
A removable disk cartridge drive has an eject member that moves from a forward position to a rearward position upon insertion of the cartridge from the drive. A coupling member extends between an...
6710970 Ejection mechanism for use in a tape drive that has an adjustable ejection amount  
In an ejection mechanism ( 30 ) mounted on one side surface ( 11 c ) of a drive ( 10 ) in order to eject a cartridge ( 20 ) from the drive, a damping member ( 32, 33 ) for braking movement of an...
6707638 Slider impedance mechanism to prevent cartridge ejection during operation  
A disk drive has a cartridge eject mechanism for ejecting the cartridge from the drive. An impedance lever is added to the eject mechanism to prevent cartridge ejection when the read/write heads of...
6643242 Disk cartridge shutter door opener  
An opener for opening the shutter door of a disk cartridge. The opener includes an opener beam having a slot section and a pin that passes through the slot section of the opener beam to be fastened...
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...
6597533 Recording medium loading device  
A recording medium loading device includes a holder into which a cartridge containing a disk-like recording medium is inserted from a predetermined side, a cartridge retraction mechanism that...
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,...
6583951 Shuttle motion mechanism  
A method and an apparatus to provide controlled horizontal and vertical movements of a disk shuttle inside a disk drive, and also to open/close an access door on the shuttle for accessing one or...
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...
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...
6552873 Recording and/or reproducing apparatus  
An ejection mechanism for a recording and/or reproducing apparatus by which a recording medium cartridge is to be improved in tractability and reliability in the recording medium cartridge ejecting...
6542329 Holder mounting structure  
A holder is pivoted to a chassis upwardly and downwardly movably. A lateral shift restraining piece is positioned on the chassis at a small distance away from an inner side surface of the holder,...
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...
6504809 Driving apparatus and method for recording medium  
A driving apparatus for a recording medium, wherein the recording medium is accommodated within a case, the case is adapted so that slanting sections are constructed at both end sections in a front...
6493033 Electronic apparatus adapted to receive a memory card  
An electronic apparatus for receiving a memory card. A card connector is disposed in an opening of an exterior wall of the electronic apparatus. A door connected to the electronic apparatus pivots...
6487159 Disc player  
A loading mechanism part for feeding a disc cartridge into a drive unit comprises a swing arm to be rotated by the drive of a rotation driving system, a loading arm provided in the drive unit to be...
6480354 Disk cartridge, its door opening and closing mechanism and disk drive  
A door 20 is rotatably attached to a disk cartridge 1 . In mounting the disk cartridge 1 , an opening and closing pin 224 moving along a groove 223 is engaged with the door 20 and the...
6480352 Drive system equipped with an autoloader mechanism, and autoloading device  
In order to achieve a drive system having a simple structure in which a cartridge having therein a wound magnetic tape can be supplied or replaced in small installation space, a carrier unit...
6469865 Disk apparatus  
A disk apparatus to which a cartridge accommodating a disk for recording or reproducing information thereon is loaded, the cartridge having a shutter capable of opening so as to expose the disk is...
6468020 Apparatus for transferring a movable body  
An apparatus for transferring a movable body comprises a rack having flexibility, a pinion for driving the rack and a guide device for guiding the rack. The guide device has a curved portion. The...
6466399 Cartridge latch and release system  
A system secures a cartridge inserted into a data storage device. The system includes a slidable member with a recess positioned therein; a toggle pivotably mounted in the recess, the toggle having...
6456457 Information recording/reproducing device  
An information recording and reproduction apparatus has an eject slider 9 which is moved by the operation from the outside. An eject plate 2 as a mechanical driving means for constituting a...
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...
6452741 Magnetic recording device with deformation-proof element  
A frame plate ( 19 ) is mounted to the inside of a case ( 4 ) of a magnetic recording device. ( 1 ), and a disk drive motor and a head body ( 5 ) are mounted to the frame plate ( 19 ). A member (...
6434101 Optical storage device and cartridge holding mechanism  
An optical storage device adapted to accept a cartridge composed of a cartridge case and an optical recording medium accommodated in the cartridge case. The optical storage device includes a base,...
6407881 Disk apparatus having a shock absorbing member for a read/write head  
A disk apparatus includes a disk loading device which loads a disk from an insert/eject position to a read/write position, the disk having a first surface and a second surface. A head device...
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