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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Doug Mayne, Ogden, UT (US);
Assignee:
Iomega Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/704 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/704 ;
Abstract
A disk drive has a cartridge eject mechanism for ejecting the cartridge from the drive. An impedance lever is added to the eject mechanism to prevent cartridge ejection when the read/write heads of the drive are reading or writing data. The impedance lever has an impedance projection, a rotation spring and an actuator follower projection which interacts with the sliding lever of the eject mechanism to prevent untimely ejection of the disk cartridge.