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Article: Japanese Inventors Develop Tray Drive Mechanism

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March 27, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 27 -- Tomohiro Shirakawa, Hiroyuki Arase, Tetsuo Nishidate, Takeshi Kurita, Masaharu Shibata and Hideki Kume, all from Osaka, Japan, have developed a tray device mechanism for optical disc apparatus.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tray drive mechanism has a simple structure, and yet both an optical disc clamping operation and a tray opening and closing operation can be driven by one feed motor.The tray drive mechanism comprises: a feed gear and a tray drive gear that are rotated by a feed motor; a rack member to mesh with the feed gear so as to be driven in direction to inner circumference of the optical disc; a plate trigger driven by the ...

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