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US 2010/0157748 A1Published application
Disk player and driving method thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsJun-tae Park, Young-yun Seol
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Abstract
A disk player includes a body, a tray having a first seating recess and a second seating recess to load disks of a first size and a second size and slidably inserted into or ejected from a replay unit of the body, a single sensor disposed in the body to detect loading or unloading of a disk on the tray, size of the loaded disk, and insertion or ejection of the tray, and a plurality of slits penetratingly formed on the tray with different lengths to correspond to the sensor when the tray is inserted or ejected.
Claims20
A disk player, comprising:
- a body;
- a tray having a first seating recess and a second seating recess to load disks of a first size and a second size and to be slidably inserted into or ejected from a replay unit of the body;
- a single sensor disposed in the body to detect a loading or unloading of a disk on the tray, a size of the loaded disk, and insertion or ejection of the tray;
- and
- a plurality of slits penetratingly formed on the tray with different lengths to correspond to the sensor when the tray is inserted or ejected.
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A driving method of a disk player, comprising:
- ejecting a tray;
- seating a disk on one of a first seating recess and a second seating recess of the tray having a size corresponding to the disk;
- loading the tray on which the disk is seated on a replay unit;
- using a single sensor to sequentially detect slits of different lengths formed on the tray according to insertion or ejection of the tray to determine presence or absence of a disk, size of the disk, and location of the tray;
- and
- replaying the loaded disk.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.