Sony Corporation

Sony Optiarc Inc.

Kiyoaki Tsuji

Hiroyuki Suzuki

Yuji Suzuki

Takashi Aoyama

Kiyoshi Omori

Hidekazu Seto

Hirohiko Shimizu

Hitoshi Saito

Yoshiteru Taka

A disk drive device includes: a device body having a front surface that forms a disk insertion and ejection opening; a pair of arms supported at proximal end portions thereof pivotally from the front surface of the device body to a downstream side in a disk insertion direction; transport rollers respectively rotatably supported at distal ends of the arms and transporting the disk to an inside or outside of the device body by being brought into contact with a side surface of a disk; an urging member urging the arms so that the transport rollers supported respectively by the arms approach each other; and a transport roller rotation mechanism driving at least one of the transport rollers, supported respectively by the arms, for rotation, wherein the arms synchronously pivot the transport rollers in such a manner that the pivotally supported proximal end portions are coupled to each other.

Disk drive device and electronic apparatus

There is provided a disk drive including first and second sliding members () made to slide in synchronization with each other, a sliding-member movement driving mechanism () to move the first sliding member () and have the second sliding member () slide in synchronization with the sliding of the first sliding member (), and a shock absorbing mechanism () interposed between the first and second sliding members (). The shock absorbing mechanism () includes a shock absorbing member () to absorb a difference in movement between the first and second sliding members (), caused by an external force to the optical disk brought into or to outside a housing () through a disk slot () in a direction opposite to the direction in which the optical disk () is loaded or ejected when the first sliding member () is moved by the sliding-member movement driving mechanism ().

Disk drive

To promote reduction of the size and thickness of an auto-eject device for a disc player, an auto-eject device for a disc player in which a cassette holder 34 and a slide plate 45 are mounted on a chassis 21 is characterized in that an auto-eject motor is constructed to have a generally square top shape and is flat, and in that the auto-eject motor 55 is screwed to the chassis 21 such that its output cam 61 is arranged normal to a driven plate 49 of the slide plate 45.

Auto-eject device for disc players having compact twin cam motor unit

A disc drive includes a cartridge holder formed of a single piece of sheet metal which cooperates with a slide plate which is similarly formed of a single piece of sheet metal. The sides of inclined guide slots formed in side walls of the slide plate are parallel and serve to guide horizontally projecting flange-like guide members of the cartridge holder. A single piece disc shutter control arm is pivotally mounted in the cartridge holder and motivated by the force which moves the disc cartridge into the disc holder in a manner which opens the disc cartridge shutter. The chuck yoke of the turntable is provided with an inertia increasing annular member. A head is mounted on a pivotal head arm which is operatively connected with the cartridge holder in a manner to be pivoted up and down therewith. A head carriage is released and operatively connected with a motor upon the cartridge holder being lowered past the level whereat the disc hub of the disc in the disc cartridge is placed on the chuck yoke and the head is placed on the upper surface of the disc.

Disc cartridge holder having a shutter control arm disposed in a

A disc drive includes a cartridge holder formed of a single piece of sheet metal which cooperates with a slide plate which is similarly formed of a single piece of sheet metal. The inclined guide slots formed in side walls of the slide plate are parallel and serve to guide horizontally projecting flange-like guide members of the cartridge holder. A single piece disc shutter control arm is pivotally mounted in the cartridge holder and motivated by the force which moves the disc cartridge into the disc holder in a manner which opens the disc cartridge shutter. The chuck yoke of the turntable is provided with an inertia increasing annular member. A head is mounted on a pivotal head arm which is operatively connected with the cartridge holder in a manner to be pivoted up and down therewith. A head carriage is released and operatively connected with a motor upon the cartridge holder being lowered past the level whereat the disc hub of the disc in the disc cartridge is placed on the chuck yoke and the head is placed on the upper surface of the disc.

Unitarily formed sheet metal cartridge holder

An electronic device such as an external floppy disk drive is accommodated in a housing which has lower and upper cabinets and a door flap. The lower cabinet has at least a pair of first engaging teeth attached to respective side walls thereof, and a pair of spaced lugs mounted on respective side edges of an end thereof. The upper cabinet has at least a pair of second engaging teeth attached to the side walls, respectively, and a pair of spaced side flaps mounted on respective side edges of an end thereof. The first and second cabinets are superposed on each other with the first engaging teeth slidingly engaging the second engaging teeth, respectively. A pair of bushings is inserted in registered holes defined in the lugs and the side flaps. A door flap is angularly movably supported on the first and second cabinets by the bushings.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Kiyoaki Tsuji