Abstract: An optical disc drive including a housing, a fixing part, a flexible flat cable and an electronic component is provided. The fixing part is disposed in the housing. The flexible flat cable is disposed in the housing and includes a first and a second portions. The first portion has a component-disposed region whose backside is in contact with the fixing part. The second portion has a conductive surface, and the second portion is connected with and opposite to the first portion. The component-disposed region is located between the fixing part and the conductive surface. Additionally, the first optical disc drive is disposed on the component-disposed region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tray used in an optical disc drive. At least two aligning means arranged in the tray for marking an aligning line at a front side and a back side of the tray, respectively. The aligning line is used determining the dimensional accuracy of each component located on the front side and back side of the tray, respectively.

Abstract: A disk device tray includes a first support component, a second support component and a step component. The first support component has a first support face with a first disk supporting area that supports an outer edge portion of a lower face of a first disk. The second support component has a second support face with a second disk supporting area that supports an outer edge portion of a lower face of a second disk. The step component has an inner side portion protruding upward with respect to an outer side portion. The inner side portion has a top face that is located lower than the second support face and a first inner peripheral face that extends upward from the first support face to the top face and restricts movement of the first disk in a radial direction of the first disk.

Abstract: In a prior art slim-type high speed rotation optical disk apparatus, the side wall of the bottom chassis is bent at a bending point toward the side of the optical disk according to the configuration of the corner air window section of the chassis. According to the present invention, this bent side wall is formed so as to have a first vertical wall which is adjacent to the bending point and a second vertical wall which is adjacent to and lower than the first vertical wall. This constitutes an L-shaped vertical wall in the air window section of the bottom chassis, resulting in reduced noise.

Abstract: A optical disc drive is disclosed. The optical disc drive includes a housing and a tray configured to accommodate a disc therein. The optical disc drive also includes an automatic return-type eject switch, a drive controller, and an eject controller. Mounted in the housing, the automatic return-type eject switch is configured to generate an eject signal. In response to the eject signal, the drive controller ejects the tray. In response to the eject signal, the eject controller supplies an electric power to the optical disc drive, and transmits a pseudo eject signal to the drive controller to eject the tray by way of a line through which the eject signal has been transferred after a predetermined time period from the supply of the electric power has lapsed.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus, comprising an optical disk drive having an eject button for opening/closing a disk tray and a first controller for controlling the eject button. A tray open/close button controls the disk tray. A second controller controls the disk tray. A mechanism for operating the eject button of the optical disk drive, is disposed within a housing of the electronic apparatus and is operated from outside of the housing.

Abstract: A disk apparatus includes a chassis, a disk tray and a tray panel unit. The tray panel unit includes a panel main body and a spring body. The spring body has a coil part, a pair of end attachment parts and a middle attachment part. An axial direction of the coil part is aligned with a width direction of the tray panel unit. The pair of end attachment parts extends from both axial ends of the coil part, respectively. The end attachment parts are fixedly coupled to one of the panel main body and a front end part of the disk tray. The middle attachment part is provided to an axial middle portion of the coil part. The middle attachment part is fixedly coupled to the other of the panel main body and the front end part of the disk tray.

Abstract: A relative-moving-side projection is formed on a front surface and a fixed-side groove that can engage with a fixed-side projection is formed on a rear surface of a tray. The fixed-side projection is formed on a bottom surface of a chassis. A relative-moving-side groove that can engage with the relative-moving-side projection is formed on a ceiling surface of an upper case. When the tray is moved from a disk loading position to a disk reproducing position, a state where the relative-moving-side projection and the fixed-side projection respectively engage with the relative-moving-side groove and the fixed-side groove is maintained. The relative-moving-side projection moves with respect to the fixed-side projection while the tray is moved.

Abstract: In accordance with the invention, an automatic disc loader and unloader is integrated into an optical disc recorder having a labeling facility. In one embodiment, a supply stack of discs is positioned generally directly above an extended delivery tray of the system. Thus, a relatively small footprint is required. Also in the preferred embodiment, a disc take-up facility is located below the extended tray, so as not to extend substantially beyond the recorder/labeler with the tray in its extended condition. The loading of discs into the tray and the unloading of discs from the tray may be accomplished by a coordinated mechanism driven by a single motor.

Abstract: There is provided a disc player which does not require any mechanism for guiding a disc to the center inside a main body and any dedicated mechanism for preventing double insertion of discs, and can surely detect the disc diameter of not only general discs, but also partially-transparent discs. In order to attain this object, a disc player for loading a disc inserted in an insertion port into the inside of the main body to reproduce the disc is provided with a pair of gate members 59 which are disposed so as to be allocated to both the sides of the insertion port substantially with respect to the center of the insertion port and evacuated in the side direction of the insertion port in contact with the outer peripheral portion of the inserted disc.

Abstract: An optical disk drive, which includes a main frame, an upper case coupled to an upper portion of the main frame, a tray slidably installed on the main frame, having a door, and adapted to carry a disk, and a front panel coupled to a front end portion of the main frame and having an aperture through which the tray passes, including an air discharging passage between the main frame and the front panel to discharge air and dust introduced into the optical disk drive through a gap between the door and the front panel to an outside of the optical disk drive.

Abstract: An optical disc device capable of sensing exactly whether or not a disc is present is provided. In an optical disc device includes a main body having a disc slot, and a carrying roller for carrying a disc between the disc slot and a disc loading position of the main body, a swinging lever whose base end is supported turnably in an inside of the main body by a supporting shaft and to which a disc arriving switch is fixed, and a sensing lever whose base end is supported turnably by the supporting shaft and whose top end contacts the outer periphery of the disc, which is loaded in the disc loading position, to operate the disc arriving switch are provided.

Abstract: There is provided a disc drive by which the fluid loss of a disc is reduced and the electric power consumption of a spindle motor can be decreased. In the disc drive according to the present invention, a rotation load reducing member is provided between a top cover and the disc. The rotation load reducing member is movably supported by a clearance adjustment member. While the disc is rotating, the rotation load reducing member is moved in the direction approaching the disc. Thereby, the thickness of an air layer on the upper surface of the disc is decreased.