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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:
Nov. 30, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Micro-Star Int'l Co., Ltd., Chung-Ho, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/703 ; G11B 3/314 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 1/703 ; G11B 3/314 ;
Abstract
An optical compact disk drive includes a housing and a mounting seat with a disk-supporting tray that has opposite front and rear peripheral portions and that is formed with a recess between the front and rear peripheral portions and an elongated opening extending from a center of the recess to the rear peripheral portion. A pair of front air-communicating openings are formed in the front peripheral portion, and at least a rear air-communicating opening is formed in the rear peripheral portion. Air is permitted to flow from a bottom side to a top side of the disk-supporting tray through the front and rear air-communicating openings.