| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7555763 |
Disk cartridge |
June 30, 2009 |
| A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge in which is housed an optical disc includes a main cartridge body unit, rotatably housing an optical disc, and having an aperture for a head part for exposing a part of the optical disc to outside across the inner and outer rims of the |
| 7540007 |
Disk cartridge with shutter locking member |
May 26, 2009 |
| Disclosed herein is a disk cartridge including a disk; a cartridge body in which the disk is rotatably accommodated, the cartridge body having a recording and/or reproducing window for exposing a part of the disk; a shutter mounted on the cartridge body so as to be movable between a |
| 7533394 |
Disk recording and/or reproduction apparatus |
May 12, 2009 |
| A recording and/or reproduction apparatus includes a chassis, a recording and/or reproduction device provided on the chassis so as to perform recording and/or reproduction on a disk cartridge, a cartridge holder for holding the disk cartridge, the cartridge holder being supported to be |
| 7496934 |
Chassis and cartridge holder with ejection mechanism for ejecting a cartridge from a disk appara |
February 24, 2009 |
| The present invention provides lock release means that allows spring constant of the lock release means to be set to any desired value without regard to a material used for a cartridge holder. A disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes: recording and/or reproducing means |
| 7493635 |
Recording medium drive device, electronic equipment having the recording medium drive device, an |
February 17, 2009 |
| To prevent erroneous insertion of a recording medium cartridge into a holder in a recording medium drive device simply and without causing a sharp rise of price of the recording medium drive device.A shutter opening piece (32c) for sliding a shutter (110) supported upon a case (101) |
| 7492547 |
Cartridge device with an ejection slider having a projection insertable into a positioning reces |
February 17, 2009 |
| A cartridge device has a recording and reproducing unit for recording an information signal on and/or reproducing an information signal from a recording medium of a recording medium cartridge, the case having a positioning hole. A chassis of the device has a base and a projection pro |
| 7475410 |
Disc recording and/or playback apparatus |
January 6, 2009 |
| A disc cartridge can be loaded stably in the disc recorder/player, whether it is provided with a shutter member or not. The present invention provides a disc recording and/or playback apparatus including a cartridge holder in which there is to be held a first disc cartridge including a |
| 7441255 |
Disk recording/reproducing apparatus with cartridge drop preventing mechanism having elastic fla |
October 21, 2008 |
| A disk recording/reproducing apparatus includes a chassis rotatably supporting a holder for storing a disk cartridge; an eject lever movably disposed in the chassis in an insertion/removal direction of the disk cartridge and movably in a direction toward or away from the chassis. The |
| 7428740 |
Recording medium drive apparatus and electronic equipment including the recording medium drive a |
September 23, 2008 |
| Disclosed herein is a recording medium drive apparatus adapted to use a recording medium cartridge. The recording medium drive apparatus includes a holder for holding the recording medium cartridge inserted, an eject lever supported to one of a pair of side plate portions of the holder s |
| 7356827 |
Disk cartridge |
April 8, 2008 |
| A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge includes an optical disc and a main cartridge body unit rotatably housing the optical disc. A lateral surface of the main cartridge body unit as an inserting end of the main cartridge body unit into the recording and/or reproducing app |
| 7342744 |
Disk recording and/or reproducing apparatus having eject lever contact portion movable from an i |
March 11, 2008 |
| 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 on a disk cartridge, a cartridge holder movably provided on the chassis to be movable |
| 7263708 |
Cartridge type recording medium, associated apparatus and methodology of disc detection |
August 28, 2007 |
| A recording medium is provided wherein type determination and writing possibility determination is enabled for various types of disks. Opening and closing structure functions to open and close a detection hole of a cartridge. The structure forms a plane substantially horizontal level |
| 7224656 |
Disc detection device and associated method |
May 29, 2007 |
| A disc drive apparatus is provided which determines a recording medium enabling type and recordability for various types of discs. The discs are housed in a cartridge and each cartridge has at least a first and second detection hole formed therein. The second detection hole (H1) is varia |
| 7188351 |
Disc cartridge |
March 6, 2007 |
| A disc cartridge includes a cartridge body unit having an optical disc (2) rotatably housed in it and provided with a recording and/or reproducing aperture (13) for exposing a part of the disc to outside, and a shutter member (15) slidably carried by the cartridge body member (5). A shut |
| 7107599 |
Recording medium driving device |
September 12, 2006 |
| A driving device includes a holder movably carried by a chassis and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge that the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder. The driving device |
| 7100179 |
Recording medium driving device |
August 29, 2006 |
| A disc drive device for driving a disc held in a cartridge having a movable shutter includes a readout head radially movable on the disc and mounted on a chassis that also mounts a cartridge holder, a disc table on which the disc is loaded, a shutter mechanism for operating the shutter, |
| 7010799 |
Recording and/or reproducing apparatus |
March 7, 2006 |
| A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a holder for holding an inserted recording medium, a recording and/or reproducing section for performing recording on or reproduction from the recording medium, a chassis in which the recording and/or reproducing section is provided, |
| 7003786 |
Recording medium driving device |
February 21, 2006 |
| A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder (16). The driv |
| 7003785 |
Recording medium driving device |
February 21, 2006 |
| A recording medium driving device includes a loading unit with a disc loaded on it, a head movement mechanism for moving the recording head toward and away from the disc, an ejection mechanism for ejecting a loaded disc, a driving gear rotated by a drive motor, a joint lever moved by |
| 6993778 |
Recording medium driving device |
January 31, 2006 |
| A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder (16). The driv |
| 6978468 |
Recording medium driving device |
December 20, 2005 |
| A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder (16). The driv |
| 6973661 |
Recording medium driving device |
December 6, 2005 |
| A driving device includes a holder (16) movably carried by a chassis (5) and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever (39) for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder (16). The driv |
| 6934957 |
Recording medium driving device |
August 23, 2005 |
| A driving device includes a holder movably carried by a chassis and adapted for transporting a disc cartridge that the holder holds between an insertion/ejection position and a loading position, and an ejection lever for ejecting the disc cartridge from the holder. The driving device als |
