Optical Storage Medium Support (i.e., Turntable Or Spindle Motor) Patents (Class 720/695)
  • Patent number: 11511892
    Abstract: The present invention provides a central shaft mechanism, which is arranged on the base of a winding machine, including a central shaft component, a central shaft is arranged in the central part of the central shaft component, the central shaft component is also provided with a bearing support structure and a plurality of first limiting structures, and the central shaft component is fixed and limited in the base of the winding machine through the first limiting structures. The central shaft mechanism of the present invention has stable position, stable and reliable operation, and can reduce the working noise and noise during operation. In addition, it can be packed separately from the base during transportation, and can be quickly installed on site, which can not only provide more stable support, but also reduce the height of the turntable of the height winding machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Hangzhou Youngsun Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Bangyi Luo, Jianmin Lin, Caiqin Zhang
  • Patent number: 9778014
    Abstract: A method and position sensor assembly for determining a mutual position between a first object and a second object. The position sensor assembly includes a first body, a coil, a control unit, and a sensor circuit, the first body being reciprocally displaceable in the axial direction in relation to the coil. The sensor circuit includes in turn a comparator connected to a first branch including the coil, a power switch, and a measuring resistance coupled in series with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: FREEVALVE AB
    Inventor: Anders Hoglund
  • Patent number: 9460888
    Abstract: Provided may include an electron beam generator, an image apparatus including the same, and an optical apparatus. The optical apparatus includes a first and second laser apparatuses providing a first and second laser beams on a substrate, and a first optical system provided between the first and second laser apparatuses and the substrate to focus the first and second laser beams. The first and second laser beams overlap with each other generating an interference beam, thereby decreasing a spot size of the interference beam to be smaller than a wavelength of each of the first and second laser beams at a focal point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Moon Youn Jung, Dong Hoon Song, Jin Sun Kim
  • Patent number: 9087544
    Abstract: A space for accommodating therein a portion of an optical pickup mechanism is arranged below a disk loading portion of a turn table member of a chucking mechanism of the present invention. The space is arranged axially below a disk mounting surface. Since such space is provided, a recording/reproducing portion will be allowed to move closer to a brushless motor, and therefore a second lens arranged further away from the brushless motor will be allowed to move radially inward of a recording/reproducing area of an optical disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Haruhiko Ito, Toshihide Sonoda, Takuya Yamane
  • Publication number: 20150143388
    Abstract: A spindle motor is provided, the motor comprising: a base plate, a PCB on the base plate, a bearing assembly arranged on the base plate, a stator coupled to a periphery of the bearing assembly, a rotor rotationally coupled to the bearing assembly, the rotor including a yoke and a magnet, and a rotation shaft rotationally coupled to the bearing assembly. The base plate includes a planar portion and a protruding portion arranged along with a periphery of the yoke, the protruding portion being apart from the yoke. The base plate is partially covered with the PCB in a region where the stator is arranged. And, a height from the planar portion to an upper surface of the protruding portion is smaller than a height from the planar portion to a lower surface of the periphery of the yoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventor: Hoeop Yoon
  • Patent number: 8867165
    Abstract: A spindle motor includes a stationary portion defined by a base portion, a stator core arranged on the side of an upper surface of the base portion, and a coil attached to the stator core. A rotating portion includes a magnet arranged on a radially inner side of the stator core, a first supporting surface which is in contact with a lower surface of a disk, and a disk supporting portion arranged on a radially outer side than the magnet. The stator core includes a ring-shaped core back, and a plurality of teeth. The disk supporting portion is positioned radially outward from a radially inner end portion of the teeth and radially inward from the coil. The radially inner end portion of the teeth, the disk supporting portion, and the coil overlap in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventor: Masaki Isono
  • Publication number: 20140250495
    Abstract: An optical disc drive (ODD) includes a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader. The reader includes a circuit and a coil antenna which has a rotational symmetry with respect to a rotation axis of a motor, shaft and turntable of the ODD. The coil antenna can be secured to a wall of a housing of the ODD or around the motor and/or shaft. The reader can read an RFID tag on an optical disc. The RFID tag includes a circuit and a coil antenna which has a rotational symmetry with respect to the disc. As a result, the RFID tag can be read while the disc is rotating. A magnetic insulating material such as a ferrite polymer composite film is used to magnetically insulate the coil antenna. An authentication code can be read from the RFID tag to control access to content of the optical disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alireza Mahanfar, Benjamin Shewan, Remy Carole, Mark Casebolt, Tse-Ching Yu, Jeffrey Griffis, Javier Rodriguez De Luis
  • Patent number: 8826309
    Abstract: There is provided an optical pickup including a light source, an objective lens configured to focus light from the light source onto one signal face of an optical disc, the optical disc including two or more signal faces, each of the signal faces having a groove formed therein, a photodetector configured to receive returning rays from the optical disc, the photodetector having a light receiving face divided into four light receiving regions by a dividing line that is substantially parallel to a track direction of the optical disc and by a dividing line that is substantially perpendicular to the track direction, and a shading unit disposed at an incident side of the photodetector and configured to block, of returning rays from a signal face other than the one signal face of the optical disc, at least a diffracted ray that is diffracted by the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiro Saito, Takashi Nakao, Yutaka Tentaku
  • Publication number: 20140137138
    Abstract: An optical data storage device includes an optical storage tape having one or more optical storage layers. A plurality of optical pickup units reads and/or writes data to the optical storage tape. A feed reel provides the optical storage tape to the optical pickup units. A guiding wheel that guides the optical storage tape when the optical storage tape is in the vicinity of the optical pickup units during read and/or write operations. Finally, a take-up reel receives the optical storage tape from the guiding wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventor: Clark M. Janssen
  • Patent number: 8707338
    Abstract: An apparatus for enhancing media playback on a turntable, such as an audio record turntable, includes an illumination apparatus. The illumination apparatus is generally placed on the turntable's platter, beneath a record to be played. The record may be transparent or semi-transparent. The illumination apparatus includes a light source that projects light up through the record for producing a visual effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Inventor: Joseph Ward
  • Publication number: 20140109117
    Abstract: The laser light source, the PBS, and the reference light mirror are arranged in such a manner as to simultaneously satisfy Lsig+LBS?s (Lld/m) (s: positive integer, m: positive integer), Lref+LBS?t (Lld/m) (t: positive integer), and u(Lld/m)?(?L/2)?Lsig?Lref?u(Lld/m)+(?L/2) (u: integer), where Lld represents an in-vacuum internal resonator length of the laser light source, LBS represents an in-vacuum-converted optical path length of a laser beam between the emission end surface of the laser light source and the PBS, Lsig represents an in-vacuum-converted optical path length of signal light between the PBS, Lsig and the reflecting unit of the optical disk, Lref represents an in-vacuum-converted optical path length of reference light between the PBS and the reference light mirror, and ?L represents an interference permissible optical path length of the laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyotaka Ito, Yasumori Hino
  • Patent number: 8701132
    Abstract: The present invention provides a movement mechanism that is capable of easily releasing a bite-in state of a feed screw and a rack without increasing the size or the cost of an apparatus and without breaking the movement mechanism. A movement mechanism according to the present invention linearly moves a movement object, and includes: a feed screw; a drive motor for rotating the feed screw; a drive section for supplying a drive pulse to the drive motor; a movement member for linearly moving the movement object along with the rotation of the feed screw by the drive motor, the movement member being engaged with the feed screw; a detection section for detecting a situation in which the movement object is not moving; and a control section for, when the detection section has detected a situation in which the movement object is not moving, causing the drive section to output a drive pulse that causes the drive motor to rotate and vibrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Toru Kawabata
  • Publication number: 20140068642
    Abstract: There is provided an optical pickup including a light source, an objective lens configured to focus light from the light source onto one signal face of an optical disc, the optical disc including two or more signal faces, each of the signal faces having a groove formed therein, a photodetector configured to receive returning rays from the optical disc, the photodetector having a light receiving face divided into four light receiving regions by a dividing line that is substantially parallel to a track direction of the optical disc and by a dividing line that is substantially perpendicular to the track direction, and a shading unit disposed at an incident side of the photodetector and configured to block, of returning rays from a signal face other than the one signal face of the optical disc, at least a diffracted ray that is diffracted by the groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Kimihiro Saito, Takashi Nakao, Yutaka Tentaku
  • Publication number: 20140007145
    Abstract: A tape cartridge is provided with a reel mounted for rotation in a housing. Tape with a length, a width and a thickness, is wound upon the reel in a length direction of the tape. A leader is mounted to a free end of the tape. The leader has at least one portion with a width greater than the tape width to clean a tape path, such as a guide and/or a lens. Another tape cartridge is provided with a reel mounted for rotation in a housing. Tape is wound upon the reel in a length direction of the tape. A leader is mounted to a free end of the tape. A brush is mounted to a portion of the leader for cleaning a tape path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel W. Underkofler, Steven Suttle, Scott D. Wilson
  • Publication number: 20130332944
    Abstract: The present invention provides a movement mechanism that is capable of easily releasing a bite-in state of a feed screw and a rack without increasing the size or the cost of an apparatus and without breaking the movement mechanism. A movement mechanism according to the present invention linearly moves a movement object, and includes: a feed screw; a drive motor for rotating the feed screw; a drive section for supplying a drive pulse to the drive motor; a movement member for linearly moving the movement object along with the rotation of the feed screw by the drive motor, the movement member being engaged with the feed screw; a detection section for detecting a situation in which the movement object is not moving; and a control section for, when the detection section has detected a situation in which the movement object is not moving, causing the drive section to output a drive pulse that causes the drive motor to rotate and vibrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Toru Kawabata
  • Patent number: 8607257
    Abstract: Disclosed is a spindle motor, the spindle motor including a turntable coupled to a rotating shaft and supporting the rotating shaft and a disc, a centering unit fitted over the rotating shaft and supporting an inner circumference of the disc, and a coil spring interposed between the turntable and the centering unit to elastically support the centering unit, wherein a first end of the coil spring is brought into contact with a spring hanging portion protruding from a side surface of the centering unit, and a second end opposite to the first end of the coil spring is supported by a spring support portion formed in the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongjoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8607256
    Abstract: Disclosed is a spindle motor, the spindle motor including a rotating shaft, a turntable including a body into which a through hole is formed for coupling with the rotating shaft and which supports an optical disk and rotates along with the rotating shaft, and a centering unit which is fitted over the rotating shall, moves in an axial direction of the rotating shaft, and aligns a rotating center of the optical disk with a rotating center of the rotating shaft, wherein the turntable includes a reinforcing part that protrudes from the body along a periphery of the rotating shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yongjoo Kim
  • Patent number: 8510766
    Abstract: Various embodiments herein include utilities that facilitate the substantially flat and aligned mounting of optical tape segments on testing drums to increase testing accuracy of the tape segments. In this regard, a drum for testing optical tape media is disclosed having a substantially planar portion onto which first and second ends of an optical tape segment may be mounted to thereby secure the entire tape segment around an outer testing surface of the drum. Also disclosed is fixture that may be used to precisely mount and secure the tape segment over the outer mounting surface of a drum in a manner that reduces axial run-out and wrinkling of the optical tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Faramarz Mahnad, Scott D. Wilson, Steve Ray, Charles R. Watt, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8495665
    Abstract: A holding mechanism is operable to hold a top medium from a plurality of plate-shaped media accommodated in a stacker in a stacked manner. A transport arm supports the holding mechanism. When the lift mechanism lifts down the transport arm, one of a first elastic pressing force and a second elastic pressing force greater than the first elastic pressing force is selectively applied from the holding mechanism to an upper surface of the top medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Ryo Honma
  • Patent number: 8466387
    Abstract: In a laser processing method, a workpiece is set with respect to a jig having a laser passage hole and a relative position of the jig and the workpiece is determined so that the laser passage hole can face toward a target processing point on the workpiece. Then, laser light is irradiated on the target processing point through the laser passage hole while creating a stream of an inert gas flowing from a peripheral area of the target processing point toward the target processing point and flowing away from the workpiece through the laser passage hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeki Fukuda, Katsutoshi Hamada, Takayuki Okada
  • Patent number: 8468554
    Abstract: A spindle motor includes a shaft, a cone, a turntable provide with a disk support portion, a cylindrical closed-top rotor holder, a rotor magnet, a stator, and a bearing mechanism. The cone includes a disk holding surface inclined radially outward and downward. The turntable further includes a resin-made table body having a disk support portion and an annular groove portion depressed upward at a lower side of the disk support portion, a plurality of balls rotatably arranged within the annular groove portion, an annular closure portion arranged between the table body and the rotor holder to close a lower opening of the annular groove portion, and a disc-shaped portion arranged radially inward of the annular groove portion of the table body, the disc-shaped portion having an upper surface bonded to the table body by an adhesive agent and a lower surface bonded to the rotor holder by the adhesive agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Yamane, Haruhiko Ito, Takahiro Kikuichi, Akira Sakauchi
  • Patent number: 8448200
    Abstract: A transferred medium is provided. In one exemplary embodiment a transferred medium includes a projection part projected in a transferring direction of the transferred medium from a front end part of the medium such that the projection part traverses the front end part of the medium. The thickness of a part of the projection part can be configured to be greater than the thickness of the front end part, the width of the projection part in a direction perpendicular to the transferring direction can be narrower than the width of the front part in that same direction, and the urging force by the urging member can act on the projection part and the front end part during transfer of the transferred medium. A recording apparatus system that includes a transferred medium is also provided, as are other embodiments of a transferred medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Sanshiro Takeshita
  • Patent number: 8448199
    Abstract: A spindle motor includes a rotor made of metal including a substantially circular top surface section and a tubular skirt section arranged at a predetermined space from an outer periphery of the top surface section and a disk table of synthetic resin outsert-molded in the rotor and including a table main body section located on an outer surface side of the rotor and a rotor-inner-surface superimposing section located on an inner surface side of the rotor. First resin lead-in holes are provided in the tubular skirt section and an inner surface of the table main body section located on the outer surface side of the rotor is connected to the rotor-inner-surface superimposing section located on the inner surface side of the rotor through the first resin lead-in holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mikinori Matsuda, Kazuhito Kurita, Masaki Shinotsuka, Yudai Kato
  • Patent number: 8432422
    Abstract: A transferred medium is provided. In one exemplary embodiment a transferred medium includes a projection part projected in a transferring direction. The projection part can be integrally formed at a front end of the transferred medium. The transferred medium can have a plate shape that can be nipped between a feed driving roller that is rotationally driven and a feed driven roller that is rotationally driven in contact with the feed driving roller. The transferred medium can also be configured to be transferred in the transferring direction with the rotation of the feed driving roller. Further, the transferred medium can include a plurality of the projection parts at its front end in a direction perpendicular to the transferring direction of the transferred medium with a predetermined pitch. Other embodiments of a transferred medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventor: Sanshiro Takeshita
  • Publication number: 20130047173
    Abstract: An optical disk drive including a housing, a top cover, a spindle motor and a supporting element is provided. The housing has an accommodating space. The top cover covers the accommodating space. The spindle motor is disposed within the accommodating space and has a shaft. The supporting element is disposed between an end of the shaft and the top cover. When the top cover is deformed, the shaft props up the top cover through the supporting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Applicant: PHILIPS & LITE-ON DIGITAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Hu, Sz-Shian He, Shih-Ming Hsu, Yung-Han Wu, Sheng-Fa Hou, Ho-Ting Hsieh, In-Shuen Lee
  • Patent number: 8370867
    Abstract: An optical disk drive including a housing, a top cover, a spindle motor and a supporting element is provided. The housing has an accommodating space. The top cover covers the accommodating space. The spindle motor is disposed within the accommodating space and has a shaft. The supporting element is disposed between an end of the shaft and the top cover. When the top cover is deformed, the shaft props up the top cover through the supporting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Wei-Chieh Hu, Sz-Shian He, Shih-Ming Hsu, Yung-Han Wu, Sheng-Fa Hou, Ho-Ting Hsieh, In-Shuen Lee
  • Patent number: 8302119
    Abstract: The recording/reproducing quality of a multilayer optical information recording medium deteriorate not only due to interference from other layers caused by light converging on other information layers but also due to stray light converging on the surface of a protective layer and stray light that does not converge on other information layers but rather returns to an optical head through the same optical path as the reproducing signal. The thickness composition of intermediate layers (106, 107, and 108) and the protective layer (109) in a four-layer optical information recording medium are set so as to eliminate the influence of interference caused by stray light from other layers reflected up to three times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiko Tsukuda, Morio Tomiyama, Kenji Narumi, Joji Anzai, Yuuko Tomekawa, Haruhiko Habuta
  • Publication number: 20120254905
    Abstract: A spindle motor includes a shaft, a cone, a turntable provide with a disk support portion, a cylindrical closed-top rotor holder, a rotor magnet, a stator, and a bearing mechanism. The cone includes a disk holding surface inclined radially outward and downward. The turntable further includes a resin-made table body having a disk support portion and an annular groove portion depressed upward at a lower side of the disk support portion, a plurality of balls rotatably arranged within the annular groove portion, an annular closure portion arranged between the table body and the rotor holder to close a lower opening of the annular groove portion, and a disc-shaped portion arranged radially inward of the annular groove portion of the table body, the disc-shaped portion having an upper surface bonded to the table body by an adhesive agent and a lower surface bonded to the rotor holder by the adhesive agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: NIDEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takuya Yamane, Haruhiko Ito, Takahiro Kikuichi, Akira Sakauchi
  • Publication number: 20120246666
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet 1 for an optical data recording medium D1 from which a signal with a mark length shorter than the resolution limit of an optical system of a reproducing device is capable of being reproduced by reproduction light emitted during reproducing, the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet 1 having an adhesive transparent resin layer 11 to be disposed on an data recording layer 3 of the optical data recording medium D1, the transparent resin layer 11 having a (meth)acrylate copolymer containing no acidic group as a main component, the transparent resin layer 11 having a storage elastic modulus at 23° C. of 1.5×105 Pa or less and a gel fraction of 68 wt % or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicants: SHARP CORPORATION, LINTEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naoki Taya, Takehito Nakayama, Hideharu Tajima, Yasuhiro Harada, Masaki Yamamoto, Hirohisa Yamada
  • Publication number: 20120240136
    Abstract: An optical pickup includes a lens holder; an objective lens provided on the lens holder and having an effective region for collecting light from a light source and an edge located outer to the effective region; and a lens protector provided on the lens holder. The lens protector protrudes toward an optical disc more than the objective lens. The edge of the objective lens includes a convexed portion protruding toward the optical disc. An apex of the effective region of the objective lens protrudes toward the optical disc more than the convexed portion of the edge. A straight line connecting a part of the edge of the objective lens and a part of the lens protector is closer to the optical disc than the apex of the effective region of the objective lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Noriaki TERAHARA, Shinsuke HATANAKA, Toshiyasu TANAKA, Takeshi OHTA, Fumitomo YAMASAKI
  • Publication number: 20120207006
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a rotation driving portion that rotates and drives an optical disc master; and a recording portion that performs an information recording on the optical disc master, by performing a laser beam irradiation on the optical disc master, based on a recording waveform which has a land pulse of a first power, a recording waveform portion having a recording pulse of a second power higher than the first power, and a cooling pulse which has a third power lower than the first power and is inserted between the land pulse and the recording waveform portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicants: SONY DADC CORPORATION, SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinobu Hayashi, Akiya Saito
  • Publication number: 20120204200
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical pickup device and a method of manufacturing the optical pickup device that allows an optical device to come to be held after one principal surface of a housing is covered with a covering plate. Most of the principal surface of the optical pickup device provided with the objective lens is covered with the cover. A hole is provided by partially removing the cover at a portion corresponding to the position where a light emitting device is to be disposed. In this manner, even after the housing is covered with the cover, the optical device can be touched through the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Taishi Okazaki
  • Publication number: 20120198486
    Abstract: A media processing device does not execute a media transportation process if the height of media stacked in a media storage unit is at an over capacity level, and reliably prevents problems such as damage to the media transportation mechanism caused by collision with the stacked media. If in the media processing device 200 the height of media stacked in a media storage unit 121, 122 is at a full stack level or over capacity level (step S33 returns yes or step S35 returns yes), an appropriate warning is output (step S34 or step S36) and collision accidents of the media transportation mechanism 131 can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazuya Toshima
  • Publication number: 20120185884
    Abstract: A disk device includes a disk rotation driving unit 7 provided movably in the direction of the Y axis to a chassis 10 and immovably in the direction of the X axis thereto, a guide rail 1 supported parallel to the X axis by the chassis, and an optical pickup 2 supported by the guide rail 1 and reciprocating in a radial direction of a disk which is rotation-driven by the disk rotation driving unit 7, wherein a positioning part 8 performing the positioning of a rotation center of the disk rotation driving unit 7 by making contact with a rotor unit 7a of the disk rotation driving unit 7 is provided on the optical pickup 2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventor: Yuichiro Suzui
  • Patent number: 8225340
    Abstract: An optical disc drive for an electronic device is provided. The optical disc drive includes a rotating member, a spindle, a reading member and a controlling module. The rotating member includes a connecting member, and a first end fixed to a housing of the electronic device. The spindle is connected to a second end of the connecting member for rotating an optical disc arranged on the spindle. The reading member is fixed to the connecting member to read the optical disc. When a switch of the electronic device is actuated, a processing unit of the electronic device outputs a signal to the controlling module. The controlling module controls the rotating member to rotate. The connecting member moves the spindle and the reading member out of the housing, further controls the spindle to rotate the optical disc, and the reading member to read the optical disc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignees: Fu Tai Hua Industry (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Zhong Xu
  • Patent number: 8212459
    Abstract: A motor is disclosed. The motor can include: a rotor equipped with a shaft; a base, in which a housing hole is formed and which includes a housing support portion protruding along a periphery of the housing hole; a housing, which may be inserted in the housing hole to be supported by the housing support portion and in which a through-hole is formed so that the shaft may be inserted in one side of the through-hole; and a rotor support, which may be inserted into the other side of the through-hole and in which a support indentation is formed to rotatably support the shaft. This motor can be manufactured by a simple process at a low manufacturing cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Viatcheslav Smirnov, Ho-Jun Yoo, Nam-Seok Kim
  • Publication number: 20120151507
    Abstract: When power is supplied to an ODD used by being externally attached to a PC via a USB port, it is desirable not to cause an error to occur owing to occurrence of a power-on reset even when the power supplying ability of the PC is insufficient. After the ODD has been connected with the PC and started, the ODD executes an operation of large current consumption for a predetermined period of time and judges whether a power-on reset occurs or not while the operation is being executed. When the power-on reset does not occur, the ODD is set to operate on the basis of the highest specification. When the power-on reset has occurred, the specification is set lower so as to operate the ODD with reduced current consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventor: Seiji INABA
  • Publication number: 20120151508
    Abstract: When information is recorded or reproduced on or from an optical information medium having three or more recording layers using blue light, interference by another layer light is reduced and, when information is reproduced from an optical information medium using red light, an S/N ratio is held excellently high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Komma, Joji Anzai, Yasumori Hino, Kousei Sano, Hideki Nakata, Keisuke Fujimoto, Takeharu Yamamoto, Takeshi Shimamoto
  • Publication number: 20120117580
    Abstract: According to the present invention, a tracking error signal can be obtained with good stability by the three-beam differential push-pull method even if the track guide groove direction of the optical disc changes as viewed from the objective lens. An optical pickup 30 according to the present invention includes: a grating element 110 for splitting light emitted from a light source 121 into multiple light beams including zero-order, ?first-order and +first-order diffracted light beams; an objective lens 118 for condensing the zero-order and ±first-order diffracted light beams, which have come from the grating element 110, onto an optical disc; and a photosensor 101 with multiple photodetectors for receiving respectively the three diffracted light beams reflected from the optical disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Jun-ichi Asada, Hiroaki Matsumiya, Kazuo Momoo
  • Publication number: 20120110605
    Abstract: An optical disc drive is provided to comprise a main circuit board; an optical pickup head, electrically connected to the main circuit board for reading data from an optical disc and for writing a label side of the optical disc; an spindle motor module, electrically connected to the main circuit board through a first flexible flat cable for supporting and rotating the optical; and a spoke detecting module, electrically connected to the main circuit board through a second flexible flat cable for detecting a spoke pattern formed on inner radius of the label side of the optical disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: LITE-ON IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: In Shuen Lee, Yuan-Yu Lee, Hui Chung Leu
  • Publication number: 20120110606
    Abstract: Disclosed is a spindle motor, the spindle motor including a turntable coupled to a rotating shaft and supporting the rotating shaft and a disc, a centering unit fitted over the rotating shaft and supporting an inner circumference of the disc, and a coil spring interposed between the turntable and the centering unit to elastically support the centering unit, wherein a first end of the coil spring is brought into contact with a spring hanging portion protruding from a side surface of the centering unit, and a second end opposite to the first end of the coil spring is supported by a spring support portion formed in the turntable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicant: LG Innotek Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: YONGJOO KIM
  • Patent number: 8156513
    Abstract: A motor includes a bearing mechanism, a stationary unit including a stator arranged radially outwards of the bearing mechanism, and a rotary unit supported by the bearing mechanism at the upper side of the stationary unit for rotation about a center axis with respect to the stationary unit. The rotary unit includes a substantially cylindrical closed-top rotor yoke having a cover portion arranged to cover the stator. The bearing mechanism includes a substantially cylindrical closed-bottom bush formed by a press work, a sleeve fixed inside the bush and provided with an upper portion protruding beyond the bush and a shaft inserted into the sleeve. An upper end of the bush is lower than or flush with an upper end of the stator in a direction parallel to the center axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Nidec Corporation
    Inventors: Hidehiko Hidaka, Shigeo Hayashi, Hiroyuki Ichizaki, Akihiro Nakagawa, Tatsuya Tatara, Harushige Osawa, Atsushi Inoue, Kazuya Ichimura
  • Publication number: 20120079511
    Abstract: There are provided a motor capable of preventing scratches from occurring on an outer surface of a rotor case thereof, a method for manufacturing the same, and an optical disk drive using the same. The motor includes a shaft rotatably inserted into a bearing assembly; and a rotor case fixedly fastened to the shaft and rotating together with the shaft, wherein the rotor case is provided with a chamfered part along the outer peripheral edge of the bottom surface thereof. The rotor case includes a rotor hub fastened to anone end of the shaft; an extending part extending in an outer-diameter direction from the rotor hub; and a vertical extending part formed to be vertically extended downwardly in a shaft direction from anthe outer peripheral edge of the extending part and having the chamfered part formed on the bottom end surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Dong Yeon Shin, Dae Lyun Kang
  • Patent number: 8136132
    Abstract: An optical disk drive includes a bracket, and a mecha module installed on the bracket. The mecha module includes a mounting plate fixed on the bracket, an optical pick-up head installed on the mounting plate in a slidable manner for reading or writing data in an optical disk, and a spindle motor installed on the mounting plate for rotating the optical disk. The optical disk drive further includes a rotary mechanism connected to the bracket and a base for driving the bracket to rotate into or out of an opening on a housing relative to the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Wistron Corporation
    Inventor: Chih-Chiang Lee
  • Publication number: 20120047523
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is provided a spindle motor and a disk driver having the same. There is provided a spindle motor including: a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft; a bush combined with the top portion of the shaft to be rotated together with the shaft; a rotor case including a cylindrical wall part combined with the outer peripheral surface of the bush; an air flow spreading part formed on the axial bottom part of the bush and spreading the air flow generated between the shaft and the sleeve to the radial outer side when the shaft is rotated; and a sealing part formed on the axial bottom portion of the bush and formed between the cylindrical wall part and the air flow spreading part to seal oil when the shaft is rotated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 23, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Viatcheslav Smirnov, Ho Jun Yoo, Yeol Choi, Nam Seok Kim
  • Patent number: 8116892
    Abstract: A sound effect sensing turntable for a digital music broadcaster includes a capacitive charge sensing plate able to independently detect the variation of charge. A signal transmission unit is disposed between the sensing plate and a control plate for transmitting signals and thus, on receiving a signal, the control plate will produce relative sound effect to be output. In operating, when a DJ's fingers slightly touch the turntable, the sensing plate will sense charge variation on the turntable and actuate the control plate to control corresponding sound effect. By detecting the variation of charge on the turntable for controlling sound effect, the mode of touching the turntable of this invention for producing sound effect is like that of conventionally controlling a vinyl record for controlling sound effect, getting rid of conventional defect of producing wrong sound effect due to assembly errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Ya Horng Electronic Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jin Yi Huang
  • Publication number: 20120023513
    Abstract: There is provided a motor having an improved coupling structure between a circuit board and a base plate, and an optical disc drive using the same. The motor includes: a base plate; and a circuit board coupled to a surface of the base plate and having insulating layers formed on both surfaces thereof, wherein the insulating layers formed on both surfaces of the circuit board have different thicknesses. In particular, an insulating layer formed on one surface of the circuit board attached to the base plate may be thicker than an insulating layer formed on the other surface thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jin Sun Min, Sang Kyu Lee, Byung Hoon Lee
  • Publication number: 20120023514
    Abstract: A compound objective lens, an optical head device, an optical information device, and an information processing device that can inhibit the occurrence of aberration even when a light beam source wavelength shifts from the designed value. A diffraction structure having a sawtooth or stepwise cross section is formed in the region (R10) and region (R20). The height of the sawtooth or stepwise cross section formed in the region (R10) provides a light beam, which has a predetermined wavelength, with a difference in optical path length of N times the predetermined wavelength, as compared with a case of propagation in air. The height of the sawtooth or stepwise cross section formed in the region (R20) provides the light beam, which has the predetermined wavelength, with a difference in optical path length of J times the predetermined wavelength, as compared with a case of propagation in air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: PANASONIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Komma, Katsuhiko Hayashi, Fumitomo Yamasaki, Michihiro Yamagata
  • Publication number: 20120017226
    Abstract: There is provided a motor with an improved sleeve holder and base plate combining structure and an optical disc drive using the same. The motor according to the present invention includes a base plate having a plate shape; a sleeve holder including a cylindrical body part having a sleeve fastened thereinto and a flange part formed to be horizontally protruded in an outer-diameter direction from the lower end portion of the body part to surface-contact the upper surface of the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Viatcheslav Smirnov, Dong Yeon Shin, Pyo Kim
  • Publication number: 20120017225
    Abstract: There are provided a motor in which a coupling structure between a sleeve holder and a base plate is improved to thereby reduce manufacturing costs and manufacturing process of the motor, and to an optical disc drive using the same. The motor may include a base plate including at least one protrusion supporting part formed therein; and a sleeve holder including a cylindrical shaped body part to which a sleeve is fastened in an inside of the sleeve holder, an extension part protruded such that an outer diameter is extended along an outer circumferential surface of the body part, and a flange part vertically protruded in an outer diameter direction from a lower end portion of the extension part so as to make surface contact with an upper surface of the base plate, wherein the sleeve holder is fastened to the base plate while an outer circumferential surface of the protrusion supporting part is brought into contact with an inner circumferential surface of the extension part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Viatcheslav Smirnov, Kyung Su Park, Jae Yoon Kim