Positioning mechanism of slot-in optical disk drive
OwnerHeng-Min Huinventor
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Abstract
A positioning mechanism of a slot-in optical disk drive includes a base chassis, a driving mechanism, a sliding member, a sliding plate and a push rod. The base chassis is used for disposition of the driving mechanism, the sliding member and the push rod. When an optical disk enters the disk drive, the optical disk pushes the push rod to rotate so as to activate the driving mechanism for driving the sliding member to move. The rotation angle of the push rod depends on the diameters of optical disks. A sliding post of the push rod slides inside a first locating slot or a second locating slot on the sliding plate so as to guide the push rod to drive optical disks with different diameters into the position of rotation for retrieving data therein.
Claims16
A positioning mechanism of a slot-in optical disk drive comprising:
- a base chassis;
- a sliding member disposed on the base chassis and capable of moving upwards and downwards;
- a driving mechanism arranged on the base chassis for driving the sliding member to move;
- a sliding plate disposed on the lower part of the sliding member and having a first locating slot and a second locating slot that connect with each other;
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- a push rod arranged on the base chassis with a sliding post inserting through the first locating slot and the second locating slot;
- when the sliding plate moves along with the movement of the sliding member, the push rod is moved by an optical disk entering the disk drive;
- optical disks with different diameters push the push rod to rotate at different angles so that the sliding post slides inside the first locating slot or the second locating slot and then the push rod drives optical disks with different diameters into the position of rotation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.