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US 2011/0258649 A1Published application
Disc mounting in optical disc drives
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorPaul J. Wehrenberg
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InventorPaul J. Wehrenberg
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The embodiments herein describe an apparatus and method for a reduced Z stack slot loading optical disc drive (ODD). In one embodiment a reduced Z stack height slot loading optical disc drive (ODD) is described. The reduced Z stack height ODD includes at least a hub/turntable arrangement having a hub portion and a turntable portion, the turntable portion arranged to support an optical disc secured thereto by way of the hub such that when a rotational motive force is applied to the hub/combination, the optical disc rotates about a hub/turntable axis of rotation, and a rotational motor adjacent to the hub/turntable arrangement, the rotational motor being arranged to provide the rotational motive force to the hub/turntable arrangement, the rotational motor being located in such a way that a rotational motor axis of rotation is translated in a direction perpendicular to the hub/turntable axis of rotation and wherein a Z height of the hub/turntable arrangement and a Z height of the rotational motor are not cumulative.
A reduced Z stack height slot loading optical disc drive (ODD), comprising:
A method of mounting and rotating an optical disc on the hub/turntable arrangement of an ODD comprising the steps of:
A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing a computer program, the computer program executed by a processor for controlling the operation of an ODD comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.