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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:
Apr. 27, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Elizabeth B. Diaz, Woodside, CA (US);
Peter K. Lee, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/302 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 3/302 ;
Abstract
The present invention is directed to an optical light pipe assembly for an optical drive which can accommodate optical drives from various manufacturers. The light pipe assembly is particularly useful in a tower configuration computer case. Advantageously, various optical drives, such as CD ROMs, DVDs, DVD-ROMs, CDRWs, DVDRWs, etc. can be purchased from different manufacturers having different LED locations yet the optical drive can be covered but the light emitted by the LED is visible.