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US 2005/0097582 A1Published application
Optical disc drive and method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeung-hoon Kim, Young-woo Huh, Chung-ung Kim, Pil-ie Cho, Young-sun Jung, Sung-hun Lee, Kyu-hyeong Lee
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Abstract
An optical disc drive includes a main body at which a spindle motor is installed. A tray installed at the main body is loadable/unloadable into/from the main body, and a disc holder is rotatable by the spindle motor when the tray is in a loaded position, and is joinable to a clamping hole of a disc so as to fix the disc.
Claims28
An optical disc drive for a disc, comprising:
- a main body;
- a spindle motor attached to the main body;
- a tray attached to the main body so as to be loadable/unloadable into/from the main body;
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- a disc holder rotatable by the spindle motor when the tray is in a loaded position, and joinable to a clamping hole of the disc so as to fix the disc.
2 more elements
An optical disc drive for a disc, comprising:
- a tray with a circular through opening;
- a spindle motor;
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- a disc holder joined to the opening, and magnetically joined to the spindle motor and rotated by the spindle motor when the tray is loaded, wherein the disc holder comprises:
- a first member and a second member, and
- a fixing member having hooks elastically joinable to the clamping hole of the disc so as to fix the disc to the disc holder.
3 more elements
An optical disc drive for a disc, comprising:
- a tray with a circular through opening;
- a spindle motor;
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- a disc holder joined to the opening, and magnetically joined to the spindle motor and rotated by the spindle motor when the tray is loaded, wherein the disc holder comprises:
- a first member and a second member joinable to each other to form an engagement groove which is movably joinable to the circular through opening, and
- a fixing member having a plurality of elastically deformable arms with hooks to hook edge portions of the disc.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.