Patents by Inventor Mitsuru Iba

Mitsuru Iba has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Disc drive apparatus and electronic apparatus
    Patent number: 8141109
    Abstract: A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Optiarc Inc.
    Inventors: Hisashi Negoro, Keiji Jitsukawa, Mitsuru Iba, Shunsuke Nirei, Tomoyasu Takaoka
  • DISC DRIVE APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
    Publication number: 20110061067
    Abstract: A disc drive apparatus includes: an outer casing; a disc drive unit that includes a disc table on which a disc-like recording medium is mounted, a spindle motor, an optical pickup, and a pickup base; a slider that includes a main body and a rack gear, is movable in a first direction as an insertion direction and a second direction as an ejection direction, and moves in the second direction during loading and moved in the first direction during ejection; a drive motor functioning as a drive source of the slider; a deceleration gear group that intermeshes with the rack gear; an eject lever that is rotated to press the recording medium during the ejection; and a link member coupled with the eject lever, the slider including a lock plate and a slide plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Optiarc Inc.
    Inventors: Hisashi Negoro, Keiji Jitsukawa, Mitsuru Iba, Shunsuke Nirei, Tomoyasu Takaoka