Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation

Myung-ryul Choi

Young-won Lee

Jae-soo Lee

Soon-kyo Hong

Suk-il Oh

Yong-bom Jon

Seung-Woo Lee

Eun-Hyoung Cho

Cheol-woong Ahn

Jong-Seon Kim

Jun-Hyung Souk

Won-ik Cho

Nag-eui Choi

Sang-Yun Lee

Byung-hoon Chung

Jae-won Ha

Chang-Gi Ahn

Byung-Hoon Chung

Provided are a hybrid optical disk drive, a method of driving the hybrid optical disk drive, and an electronic system including the hybrid optical disk drive. The hybrid optical disk drive may include an optical disk drive unit for recording/storing data in an optical disk and a solid-state drive (SSD) unit having a storage capacity that is equal to or greater than a maximum storage capacity of the optical disk, which is compatible with the hybrid optical disk drive.

Hybrid optical disk drive, method of operating the same, and electronic system adopting the hybrid optical disk drive

An optical recording/reproducing apparatus includes an optical disc drive unit for recording/reproducing information with respect to a recording surface of an optical disc, a label printer module for printing a label on a label surface of the optical disc, and an optical disc support apparatus separated from the optical disc during recording/reproduction of the information, and supporting the optical disc to allow the label surface of the optical disc to be located at a printable position with respect to the label printer module during printing of the label.

Optical recording/reproducing apparatus with label printing feature

The present invention relates to a digital data transceiver circuit applicable to a flat panel display such as an LCD to be placed between graphic signal generation module and liquid crystal display module or between timing control IC and data driver IC, etc. A digital data transceiver circuit of the present invention has a first current source and a second current source, and the second current source is controlled to supply a current or not depending on the status of the lower bit of input data. A transmitter is connected to a node, on which the first and second current sources combine, and the transmission paths of currents from the two current sources are determined depending on the status of the upper bit of input data. A signal of the transmitter is transmitted through a transmission line, and a termination resistor is connected to the transmission line. A receiver detects output data according to a voltage applied to the termination resistor. The digital data transceiver circuit of the present invention can transmit 2-bit or 3-bit data during one clock period, and it is resistible to the noise better than the voltage transmission method and effective to long distance transmission.

Flat panel display including transceiver circuit for digital interface

An optical disk drive which includes a main frame, an upper case coupled to an upper portion of the main frame, and a tray slidably installed on the main frame to carry a disk. The optical disk drive also includes a plurality of projections arranged on at least a top surface of the tray to remove dust contained in air flowing inside the optical disk drive, and a dust adsorbing filter is attached to a surface of each of the projections to adsorb and/or collect dust contained in air passing through an area where the projections are arranged.

Optical disk drive comprising dust removing apparatus

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.

An optical disc drive including a main frame in which a turntable is provided; a tray on which the optical disc is mounted and which is slidable in the main frame; a cover, which covers a top surface of the main frame and includes a clamper to fix the optical disc in the turntable; and a noise reducer, which is disposed in the cover and causes air generated by rotation of the optical disc circulate from an inner circumference to an outer circumference of the optical disc and from the outer circumference to the inner circumference thereof, thereby reducing noise.

Optical disc drive using noise reducing unit

A disc drive includes a frame in which a spindle motor and an optical pickup are installed, and at least one helmholtz resonator that is installed in the frame to reduce noise of a particular frequency determined by a volume of a resonating tube and a length and diameter of a neck of the resonator, where the helmholtz resonator may be constructed to be united with the frame.

Disc drive with resonator

A disk drive reducing noise, including a disk tray sliding in and out of the disk drive and on which a disk is placed. A disk driving portion rotates the disk at a predetermined speed. A disk chucking apparatus holds the disk on the disk tray. A data recording/reproducing unit records data on the disk or reproduces data from the disk. An air guide plate is installed between an upper surface of the disk tray and an upper cover plate of the disk drive, parallel to the disk tray, and separates an air flow area. Air flow above the disk generated by the rotation of the disk is divided into turbulence under the air guide plate and turbulence above the air guide plate. Thus, the flow of turbulence is controlled by the air guide plate so that it does not collide with a front side portion of the disk drive. Also, because the velocity of turbulence of a free flow layer under the air guide plate that collides with the front side portion decreases, noise transmitted to the front side portion is reduced.

Disk drive for reducing noise

An optical pickup assembly having: a pickup base; an actuator installed in the pickup base, and having a blade, on which an objective lens to radiate light onto a disc is mounted; a cover, installed to surround the actuator, and regulating a range of movement of the blade; and an attenuator protruding from an inside of the cover, splitting an eddy current occurring during rotation of the disc into a plurality of small eddy currents, and attenuating a disturbance acting on the blade.

Eddy attenuating apparatus for an optical pickup assembly and disc drive adopting the same

A disk tray for a disk drive that slides in and out of the disk drive, one or more resonators mounted on a lower surface of the disk tray to selectively reduce noise of a predetermined frequency band. According to the present invention, the dominant resonance noise frequency band, which occurs at the peak sound pressure level, is reduced or removed from the noise generated in the disk drive. Also, by filling a resonance container of the resonator with a porous member, the high frequency noise band and the overall noise level can be reduced.

Disk tray for disk drive adopting resonator and disk drive having the same

A disc tray of an optical disc drive includes a tray body having a seating surface on which an optical disc is to be seated. The tray body is installed in the optical disc drive to slide in and out of the optical disc drive. The disc tray also includes a window bored through the disc tray so that an optical pickup to record or read data accesses the optical disc, and a vortex restraint unit which spatially restrains a vortex generated by a rotation of the optical disc.

Disc tray for decreasing vibration and noise in optical disc drive, and optical disc drive using the same

An optical disk drive includes a case, a tray which is slidably provided to the case and receives an optical disk, and a ground member which is electrically connected to the case and contacts one side of the optical disk as the tray slides in or out of the case. In the optical disk drive, by removing a static electricity remaining on the optical disk through the ground member, where the tray is loaded, foreign materials such as dust can be prevented from adhering to the optical disk. Accordingly, a stable and accurate optical signal processing can be guaranteed, thereby improving the reliability of the optical disk drive and the optical disk.

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Seoul, South Korea

Myung-ryul Choi