Having Disc Identification (e.g., Write Protect Hole Or Tab) Patents (Class 720/729)
  • Patent number: 9396754
    Abstract: A data storage library is described that essentially provides a write once and read many (WORM) conversion device integrated with a picker device all of which are inside of the data storage library. One embodiment contemplates that after receiving a request to store data in a WORM arrangement on a tape cartridge in the data storage library a tape cartridge selected from a scratch pool of tape cartridges can be converted to a WORM tape cartridge via the picker device, during the normal activity of using a picker device to grasp the selected tape cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Spectra Logic
    Inventor: Walter Wong
  • Publication number: 20140075461
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a medium processing method includes first reading, second reading, and determining. The first reading is configured to read first medium identification information and cassette identification information which are stored in a first medium contained in a cassette. The second reading is configured to read cassette information from the cassette. The determining is configured to determine a cassette contained medium formed of the cassette and the medium as authentic, when the cassette information includes the first medium identification information and the cassette identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Sumio Kuroda, Kazuhito Shimomura, Yuji Sakai, Kenichiro Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20140068641
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, the cassette is provided with an outer shell, a plurality of trays, a shutter, and a lock mechanism. The outer shell has an upper wall and a lower wall each including a square shape and a circular shape, a side wall between edges of the square shapes, and an opening portion between edges of the circular shapes. A tray is an annular shape having a concave portion in which an optical disk is placed. The shutter is a semicircular shape, includes a gear on an outer peripheral wall and a plurality of shelves to support each of the trays on an inner peripheral wall, and rotates from a first position for closing an opening portion to a second position for opening the opening portion. The lock mechanism locks the shutter in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Sumio Kuroda, Kazuhito Shimomura, Yuji Sakai, Kenichiro Suzuki
  • Patent number: 8307387
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a disk case capable of easily determining a disk without changing hardware of a drive unit. A disk case of the present invention includes a case body in which a disk is held, an opening through which a portion of the disk is exposed, a shutter for opening and closing the opening, and a bridge portion located at an outer periphery of the disk and at the opening, wherein a dent having a diameter greater than an inner peripheral diameter of the bridge portion is formed at a position of a pickup moving path of the bridge portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventor: Koji Miyata
  • Patent number: 8291443
    Abstract: A disk cartridge includes, between a recordable position and an unrecordable position, a first guide surface that gradually increases an elastic force of an elastic arm of a tab member and a second guide surface that gradually decreases the elastic force of the elastic arm, and a guide wall (guide portion) on which the guide surfaces are formed continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Daiki Kobayashi, Isao Watanabe, Yasuyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 7594241
    Abstract: In information recording medium of the present invention, a medium unit on which information signals are recorded is placed in an inner space of a main-body case, and an inherent marking for representing specific data for the medium unit is provided on the medium unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: Hitachi Maxell, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Ota
  • Patent number: 7424554
    Abstract: An apparatus for setting an enclosure address in a computer system having a plurality of enclosures includes at least one enclosure address control device including input means for changing the enclosure address of an associated enclosure of the plurality of enclosures, a display device for indicating the enclosure address assigned to the associated enclosure, a controller for receiving an enclosure address change input from the input means and a logic device for resetting devices within the associated enclosure. The apparatus further includes a register device for receiving the enclosure address from the controller a predetermined period of time after the controller receives the enclosure address change input from the input means. After the predetermined period of time expires, the controller issues a command to the logic device for resetting the devices within the associated enclosure, to assign the changed enclosure address to the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2008
    Assignee: EMC Corporation
    Inventors: Steven D. Sardella, Mickey S. Felton, Bernard Warnakulasooriya
  • Patent number: 7408634
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a system and method for providing an automated imaging system comprising an illumination source, a phosphorescent imaging target, and an optical imaging sensor for receiving luminance information emitted from the phosphorescent imaging target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
    Inventors: Richard Lynn Gardner, Jr., Paul C Coffin, Michael J. Chaloner
  • Patent number: 7343611
    Abstract: A disc cartridge including a disc medium which is loaded into a drive device and into/from which information can be recorded/reproduced; a case that houses the disc medium rotatably; a disc opening from which the disc medium provided into the case can be taken out; and a disc taking-out history detecting portion that can be deformed recognizably and irreversibly according to an operation for firstly taking out the disc medium from the case, is provided to judge whether a disc medium is taken out of the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2008
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kengo Oishi
  • Patent number: 7263707
    Abstract: An information processing medium includes a substrate, a single layered or multilayered thin film layer formed on the substrate, and a thin protective film formed to cover at least one surface of the thin film layer. The thin protective film is mainly comprised of a synthetic resin. At least either one of a Young's modulus and a linear expansion coefficient of the thin protective film has a value compensating a radial skew variation of the substrate caused by a change in ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Takamori, Hideharu Tajima, Akira Takahashi
  • Patent number: 7263708
    Abstract: 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 with a reference plane of the cartridge at a position of a detection hole when the detection hole is in a closed state. The cartridge has at least a first detection hole and a second detection hole formed therein. The second detection hole (H1) is opened and closed by the opening and closing structure, and the first detection hole (H0) is in an open state at all times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mikinori Matsuda, Tokio Kanada, Kazuhito Kurita, Minoru Tobita, Akihiro Noda, Yoshiro Arikawa, Shinichi Nakao
  • Patent number: 7178156
    Abstract: A disk cartridge has a reflection portion to identify a kind of a disk in the disk cartridge. A disk drive apparatus has an optical detector to identify the kind of the disk by irradiating a beam to the reflection portion and detecting the reflected beam. The disk cartridge and the disk drive apparatus provide identification marks for identifying the kind of the disk by varying the angle and amount of a beam reflected from the reflection portions on the disk cartridge. Therefore, the kind of a disk and the type of a disk format are identified as well as the storage capacity of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-kook Choi, Sun-mo Kim, Yong-hoon Lee, Chong-sam Chung, Seok-jung Kim
  • Patent number: 7103901
    Abstract: A disc cartridge includes a cartridge body, first and second shutters, and a rotational member. The cartridge body includes a disc storage portion to store a disc in a rotatable state, a chucking hole provided on the bottom of the disc storage portion so as to get the disc chucked externally, and a head access window provided on the bottom of the disc storage portion so as to allow a head, which reads and/or writes data from/on the disc, to access the disc. The first and second shutters are provided so as to expose or cover the head access window by rotating in the disc storage portion. The rotational member is provided so as to rotate in the disc storage portion, too. The first and second shutters are interlocked with the rotational member so as to rotate in mutually opposite directions and at respectively different velocities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Teruyuki Takizawa, Yoshito Saji, Hironori Okazawa, Kuniko Nakata
  • Patent number: 7085212
    Abstract: A disk cartridge and a disk drive apparatus. The disk cartridge has a reflector to identify the type of disk, and the disk drive apparatus has an optical emitter/detector to irradiate light on the reflector and detect light reflected from the reflector to identify the type of disk. A large number of identification marks can be provided by changing the angle of reflection and the amount of light reflected from the reflector. Accordingly, disks of various capacities, products and formats can be individually identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-kook Choi, Yong-hoon Lee, Seok-jung Kim
  • Patent number: 7043744
    Abstract: A disk cartridge has a reflection portion to identify a kind of a disk in the disk cartridge. A disk drive apparatus has an optical detector to identify the kind of the disk by irradiating a beam to the reflection portion and detecting the reflected beam. The disk cartridge and the disk drive apparatus provide identification marks for identifying the kind of the disk by varying the angle and amount of a beam reflected from the reflection portions on the disk cartridge. Therefore, the kind of a disk and the type of a disk format are identified as well as the storage capacity of the disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Han-kook Choi, Sun-mo Kim, Yong-hoon Lee, Chong-sam Chung, Seok-jung Kim
  • Patent number: 7020887
    Abstract: In a disc cartridge and a disc drive apparatus, a disc cartridge has an identification opening where an identification plate is installed to be capable of sliding. A probing portion is installed at the disc drive apparatus and is turned on or off by interference with the identification opening. Thus, the type of a disc can be identified by the on/off actions, that is, by interference with the identification plate and probing portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sun-mo Kim, Han-kook Choi
  • Patent number: 7017169
    Abstract: A disk cartridge 20 for a larger diameter, a disk cartridge 25 for a medium disk diameter, and a disk cartridge 30 for a smaller diameter contains a magneto-optical disk for a larger diameter, a magneto-optical disk for a medium diameter, and a magneto-optical disk for a smaller diameter having different disk diameters, respectively. Each cartridge: the disk cartridge 20 for a larger diameter and the disk cartridge 25 for a medium disk diameter, is provided with at least one sensor hole 6 to recognize a relation in size of a disk diameter with other disk cartridge having a different disk diameter. This makes it possible to provide a disk cartridge and a disk recording and reproducing apparatus which can realize recording and reproducing with high reliability by a single apparatus with respect to disk cartridges, each of which contains a disk-shaped recording medium having a different diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Tomoyuki Miyake
  • Patent number: 6967817
    Abstract: A recording medium cartridge is provided with a cartridge medium and cartridge memory in a cartridge case composed by being divided into two halves, in which the cartridge memory has a fragile part partially formed therein, one side bordered on the fragile part is firmly fixed to one of the two halves, and the other side is firmly fixed to the other of the two halves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takahisa Izumida
  • Patent number: 6961952
    Abstract: A disk cartridge having a small size and a sufficient portability. The disk cartridge has a size of 58 mm (L1)×54 mm (L2)×4 mm (L3), a thickness less than 5 mm and a small area less than a square of 65 mm. The disk cartridge has a notch 10 formed on the insertion side and having a width of 2 mm (L6) and a length of 27.5 mm (i.e., a taper portion of 6 mm (L4)+a straight portion of 21.5 mm (L5)).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Takamori, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Mitsunobu Yoshida, Nobuyuki Usui, Tomoyuki Miyake, Toshiharu Inui, Hideharu Tajima, Akira Takahashi, Toshihiro Tamura
  • Patent number: 6839900
    Abstract: A disk cartridge which allows for the user to know what contents are recorded in which disk cartridge without the need of reproducing the disk cartridge, a method of manufacturing the same and a recording/reproducing system using the same have been provided, in which the disk cartridge is accomplished by incorporating the optical disk in a case, a recording surface of the optical disk is comprised of an annular inner area, a clamping area, a transition area, an information recording area and a rim area, which are arranged from inside to outside in radial directions of the optical disk, and disk cartridge identification information is recorded in the transition area of the optical disk, and also the disk cartridge identification information recorded in the optical disk is provided discernibly from outside the case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Manabu Obata, Mitsunori Matsumura
  • Patent number: 6820275
    Abstract: A disc cartridge having a shutter which can open/close an opening for access to a disc-shaped disc medium, which opening is formed in at least one surface of a case which rotatably accommodates the disc medium. A visual recognition means which enables visual recognition of recorded/unrecorded regions is provided at a disc medium recording surface side of the case. A push portion for fingers at a time of loading the disc cartridge into a drive device is provided at a rear surface of the case. An urging means for urging in a closing/opening direction is provided at the shutter which opens/closes the opening. The disc cartridge is provided in which an unrecorded amount of the disc medium can be visually recognized from an exterior, operation of the shutter is smooth, and loading of the disc cartridge into the drive device can be carried out smoothly and stably.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Oishi, Kazuo Hiraguchi
  • Patent number: 6772430
    Abstract: A disk cartridge has a write protect portion for switching between a write-allowed state and a write-inhibited state. The write protect portion is equipped with two prisms having reflection faces different in reflectivity which are rotatably supported therein. In a drive device in which the disk cartridge is loaded, an amount of light, which is irradiated to the write protect portion and then reaches a photodetecting portion of the drive device, is varied by rotating a shaft. On the basis of the amount of the light reaching the photodetecting portion, the drive device judges whether the disk cartridge is in a write-inhibited state. According to the disk cartridge, dust-proof performance is not lost, and occurrence of mis-detection due to deformation of the disk cartridge can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Oishi, Kazuo Hiraguchi
  • Publication number: 20040107433
    Abstract: A recording medium cartridge is provided with a cartridge medium and cartridge memory in a cartridge case composed by being divided into two halves, in which the cartridge memory has a fragile part partially formed therein, one side bordered on the fragile part is firmly fixed to the other side of one of the two halves, and the other side is firmly fixed to the other of the two halves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Publication date: June 3, 2004
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takahisa Izumida