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US 8,205,219 B2Granted
Disk player including a multifunctional sensor 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.
Claims22
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, and insertion or ejection of the tray;
- and
- a plurality of slits which is penetratingly formed on the tray in line in an opening direction of the tray and comprises at least one slit for detecting the loading or unloading of the disk and at least one slit for detecting the insertion or ejection of the tray.
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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 a plurality of 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.