US 8,555,300 B1Granted

Optical disc driver

AssigneeGetac Technology Corporation

InventorChin-Jung Chang

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Abstract

The disclosure provides an optical disc driver for loading or loading/writing an optical disc and accessing at least one memory card. The optical disc driver includes a housing and a rectangular body. The rectangular body formed mainly for loading an optical disk includes a front panel disposed at a front side of the rectangular body; a main space for loading or loading/writing the optical disk, and an optical loading device is disposed in the main space; and a spare space for accessing the at least one memory card, and a plurality of electrical pins disposed in the spare space. The rectangular body moves in relative to the housing along a left-right direction of the front panel, the main space and the spare space are formed downward from a same plane, and the spare space is a small section extending from one of two sides of the front panel.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An optical disc driver for loading or loading/writing an optical disc and accessing at least one memory card, the optical disc driver comprising:

a housing;
and
a rectangular body comprising:
a front panel disposed at a front side of the rectangular body;
a main space, wherein an optical loading device configured to received the optical disk is disposed in the main space;
and
a spare space extending inwardly from the front panel and configured to receive the at least one memory card, wherein a plurality of electrical pins are disposed in the spare space;
wherein the rectangular body is arranged to move relative to the housing between a first position in which the main space and the spare space are located within the housing and the front panel is adjacent to the housing, and a second position in which the front panel is moved apart from the housing, the main space is located outside of the housing so as to expose the optical loading device, and the spare space is also located outside of the housing.

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