Information recording/reproduction apparatus having hard disk device incorporated therein
AssigneeFunai Electric Co., Ltd.
InventorShinji Yoshida
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Abstract
A DVD recorder includes a control portion operating in response to a signal received from a monitor portion of a hard disk device and indicating how many times writing a data signal is retried. If the current retry count is at least a predetermined number of times the control portion turns on a cooling fan device. If the current retry count is smaller than the predetermined number of times the control portion turns off the cooling fan device. As a signal output from the hard disk device can be utilized to control the cooling fan device, the apparatus can be less costly than that provided with a separate, dedicated temperature sensor, as conventional.
Claims6
An information recording/reproduction apparatus employing an optical disk and an incorporated hard disk device to record/reproduce information, said hard disk device including, a magnetic disk, a first write/read portion writing/reading a data signal to/from said magnetic disk, a temperature sensor sensing temperature in a casing of said hard disk device, and a monitor portion outputting a first signal indicating how many times writing said data signal is retried and a second signal indicating a result of sensing by said temperature sensor, the information recording/reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a second write/read portion writing/reading a data signal to/from said optical disk;
- a cooling fan device for cooling an interior of a casing of the information recording/reproduction apparatus;
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- a control portion receiving said first and second signals output from said hard disk device to drive said cooling fan device when said second signal indicates a temperature exceeding a predetermined temperature after said first signal indicates that writing said data signal is retried more than a predetermined number of times.
An information recording/reproduction apparatus employing an exchangeable storage medium and an incorporated hard disk device to record/reproduce information, said hard disk device outputting a first signal indicating how many times writing said data signal is retried, the information recording/reproduction apparatus comprising:
- a cooling fan device for cooling an interior of a casing of the information recording/reproduction apparatus;
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- a control portion controlling said cooling fan device in response to said first signal output from said hard disk device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.