Patents Examined by Allen Y. Cao
  • Disk cartridge loading apparatus and disk storage apparatus including such disk cartridge loading apparatus
    Patent number: 6268977
    Abstract: A door operable in unison with a cartridge holder is provided at the entrance of the apparatus, whereby a movement amount of a cartridge holder (23) is set to be an amount made smaller than a thickness of a disk cartridge (1) and also to be an amount in which the disk cartridge (1) can be prevented from interfering with a spindle motor (3) when the disk cartridge (1) is loaded and unloaded. The thickness of the disk storage apparatus can be reduced, and hence the whole of the disk storage apparatus can be reduced in thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2001
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Yamada, Kazuyuki Yamamoto, Kazuo Takahashi, Toshio Mamiya