Ejection device for ejecting an optical disk and related method
AssigneeQuanta Storage Inc.
InventorsJen-Chen Wu, Ko-Han Huang
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Abstract
The invention provides a method for ejecting an optical disk and a related ejection device for a slot-in disk drive. The ejection device includes a block disposed on a contact end of an unloading bar. The block stretches out of the contact end of the unloading bar along a longitudinal direction of the unloading bar for pushing a small size optical disk so that a distance between a center of the small size optical disk and a contact end of a loading bar exceeds a predetermined distance. When the small size optical disk is unloaded, the unloading bar backs to an initial position, the slot-in disk drive idles to load and unload the small size optical disk continuously for pushing the small size optical disk outwardly further.
Claims11
An ejection device for a slot-in disk drive, the slot-in disk drive comprising a driving motor for rotating a gear set, the ejection device comprising:
- a sliding component, the sliding component driven by the gear set moving forward and backward inside the slot-in disk drive;
- a loading bar driven by the sliding component for pushing an optical disk;
- an unloading bar, driven by the sliding component for pushing the optical disk with the loading bar;
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- a block disposed on a contact end of the unloading bar for pushing the optical disk so that a distance between a center of a small size optical disk and a contact end of the loading bar exceeds a predetermined distance being over half a radius of a central hole of the small size optical disk when the unloading bar pushes the small size optical disk outwardly.
A method for ejecting an optical disk out of a slot-in disk drive, comprising:
- starting an unloading process;
- detecting whether the unloaded optical disk is a small size optical disk;
- executing the corresponding unloading process according to a result of detecting whether the unloaded optical disk is the small size optical disk;
- unloading the optical disk and driving a unloading bar of the slot-in disk drive back to an initial position when the unloaded optical disk is the small size optical disk;
- loading and unloading the optical disk continuously after the unloading bar backs to the initial position;
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- completing the unloading process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.