Lite-on It Corporation

Lite-on Corporation

Cheng-Fu Lee

Tsung-Jung Kuo

In-Shuen Lee

Cheng-Chung Hsu

Chih-Hao Chen

Chun-Ting Wu

Tsung Jung Kuo

Te-Hsiung Lai

Wu-Jen Lo

Ming-Hsing Lu

A coupling mechanism for securing an audio/video player onto a flat panel display includes a casing, a hanger assembly and a connection member. The casing is used for supporting the audio/video player in an upright manner. The hanger assembly is attachable to the flat panel display. The connection member rotatably couples the casing to the hanger assembly so that an orientation of the audio/video player relative to the flat panel display is adjustable.

Coupling mechanism for securing audio/video player onto flat panel display

An apparatus for clamping a disk comprises a clamper and a turntable. The clamper having a first cushion member is disposed on a bottom side of the clamper. The turntable is movably disposed relative to the clamper thereby clamping the disk between the turntable and the clamper. When the turntable is moved toward the bottom side of the clamper, one of the turntable and the disk touches the first cushion member first and then the clamper attaches to the turntable tightly for clamping the disk between the clamper and the turntable, therefore a striking force generated from the impact of one of the turntable and the disk on the clamper is reduced by the first cushion member.

Disk clamper with a cushion member

A visualized indicator is applied to a slot-in optical reproducing apparatus. By providing a display window on the housing of the apparatus and a visualized indicator inside the housing, a first portion or a second portion of the visualized indicator can be alternatively shown through the display window to tell if a disk is inside the apparatus or not.

Slot-in optical reproducing apparatus with a visualized indicator

A springing device including a moveable piece and an elastic object is provided. The moveable piece is disposed between the aperture and the tray and is able to swing. The first end of the moveable piece is pivotally connected to the internal of the casing and the pivotal connection is used as a supporting point of swinging, the second end of the moveable piece is pivotally connected to the baffler. The elastic object is connected to the moveable piece. When the tray is disposed within the optical disc drive, the elastic object sustains the moveable piece and the baffler, enabling the baffler to close the aperture. When the tray moves towards the aperture until touching the moveable piece, the moveable piece, which receives a force and swings, will apply a force onto the elastic object and move the baffler to slide, enabling the baffler to open the aperture.

Springing device which facilitates opening and closing the aperture of an optical disc drive

An emergent disc-ejection device applied in a disc player having a bottom casing and a disc accessing body is provided. The bottom casing has a via hole, while the disc accessing body is disposed on the bottom casing. The emergent disc-ejection device includes a tray, an active element and a connecting rod. The tray carries a disc to enter and leave the disc accessing body. The active element is coupled to the tray for carrying the tray to be ejected from the disc accessing body. The connecting rod and the disc accessing body are connected via a pin joint. By inserting a probe into the via hole along a first direction to provide an applying force to the force receiving portion, the force applying portion will push the active element along a second direction, enabling the active element to carry the tray to be ejected from the disc accessing body.

Emergency ejection device

A disk drive structure with an adjustable bearing structure for guide bars therein. The disk drive includes a base, a spindle motor, a main guide bar located aside the spindle motor, a secondary guide bar located also aside the spindle motor but opposing to the main guide bar, an optical pickup head riding at the main guide bar and the secondary guide bar, and four bearing structures to sustain ends of the main guide bar and the secondary guide bar. The disk drive includes at least one of the four bearing structures is an adjustable bearing structure. The adjustable bearing structure includes a housing, a through hole, a spring arm, and a cam pillar pivotally mounted under the housing and sent into the through hole. By providing the cam pillar and the spring arm to hold the end of the respective guide bar, the position of the guide bar can be adjusted by turning the cam pillar.

Disk drive structure with an adjustable bearing structure for guide bars

An adjustment mechanism is used in an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus for fixing the position of a tray. A slider moved along left-right direction in the optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus is corresponding the tray moved along front-back direction. The adjustment mechanism comprises a L-shaped chute located on the tray, and comprises a guide member and an arm located on the slider. When the tray get into the optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus, the guide member slides into the L-shaped chute. Then the arm contacts the outside surface of the L-shaped chute. Whereby, the tray be fixed on a suitable position.

Adjustment mechanism used in an optical recording and/or reproducing apparatus

A disk drive structure with an adjustable bearing structure for guide bars therein is introduced. The disk drive includes a base, a spindle motor, a main guide bar located aside the spindle motor, a secondary guide bar located also aside the spindle motor but opposing to the main guide bar, an optical pickup head riding at the main guide bar and the secondary guide bar, and four bearing structures to sustain ends of the main guide bar and the secondary guide bar. The disk drive is characterized in that at least one of the four bearing structures is an adjustable bearing structure. The adjustable bearing structure includes a housing, a through hole, a spring arm, and a cam pillar pivotally mounted under the housing and sent into the through hole. By providing the cam pillar and the spring arm to hold the end of the respective guide bar, the position of the guide bar can be adjusted by turning the cam pillar.

An optical disk player has a clamping device which includes a substrate, a support frame that is pivotably coupled to the substrate, a gripping plate carried on the support frame and extending into the opening, and a slider coupled for slidable movement on the substrate. The slider has a block with an angled surface along which a projecting tab on the support frame travels when the slider is moved. The slider also has a pressing tab that presses the gripping plate through the opening to fix a disk on to a turntable of the disk player.

Clamping device for an optical disk player

An optical disk player has a carrier having an accomodation space provided along a side edge thereof, and a modular deceleration device that is coupled to the accomodation space. The deceleration device has a module case body that is formed in one piece, and a plurality of gears, all of which are attached to the module case body.

Optical disk player with modularized deceleration device

A disc loading device for an optical disc drive that discriminates between standard sized optical discs and other objects. In the disc-loading device, two one-degree-of-freedom detecting arms are disposed near the slot of the optical disc drive. An edge sensor including an emitting component and a receiving component is disposed between two detecting arms. A control unit receives data from the detecting arms and the edge sensor when the edge sensor detects the periphery of an object inserted into the optical disc drive. The data is used to calculate the size of the inserted object. By comparing the measured size with the standard sizes of optical discs, the disc loading device can determine whether or not the inserted object is an optical disc or another object. If the control unit determines that the inserted object is not an optical disc, the object is unloaded.

Optical disc loading using two detecting arms and an edge sensor

A disk reading device operates in both a suction mode and a cover-lifting mode. The device has a lower cover having a wall with an elongated opening provided in the wall, an upper cover that is connected for pivoting movement with respect to the lower cover, and a disk receiving space between the lower and upper covers. The disk receiving space is accessible via the elongated opening in a suction mode and by opening the upper cover with respect to the lower cover in a cover-lifting mode. A disk is drawn via the elongated opening into the disk receiving space, or a disk can be manually placed in the disk receiving space by opening the upper cover with respect to the lower cover. The device also includes a switch that switches operation of the disk reading device from the suction mode to the cover-lifting mode.

Optical disk reading device having two ways to load a disk

A disc detection apparatus for a slot-in optical disc drive. The apparatus includes a body, a light emitting device, a rolling unit, and a light receiving device. The light emitting device is disposed on the body, as is the rolling unit. The light receiving device is disposed on the rolling unit, wherein the light receiving device and the rolling unit are integral, conserving considerable deployment space.

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Cheng-Fu Lee