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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:
Aug. 17, 2004
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/703 ; G11B 1/704 ; G11B 3/302 ; G11B 2/108 ; G11B 7/085 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/703 ; G11B 1/704 ; G11B 3/302 ; G11B 2/108 ; G11B 7/085 ;
Abstract
An optical disc changer includes a main body, a tray installed in the main body to be capable of sliding, a roulette rotatably installed at the tray and where a plurality of optical discs are accommodated, an optical pickup device to selectively reproduce one of the optical discs accommodated on the roulette, a drive gear member installed at the main body, rotated by being connected to a drive unit, and selectively engaged with a rack gear member formed on the bottom surface of the tray, and a tray gear unit installed adjacent to the drive gear member and having a tray gears selectively engaged with the rack gear member and the drive gear member.