Article: Taiwanese Inventor Develops Disk Drive Tray Opening, Closing Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 28 -- Yu-Chih Liu of Taipei, Taiwan, has developed a disk drive tray opening, closing system.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for opening/closing a disk tray of a disk drive. The method includes the steps of when a first event occurs, sending a load/unload command to the disk drive, to which the disk drive responds with a second or third event, and resends the load/unload command to the disk drive when the disk drive responds to the previous load/unload command with the second event."

The inventor was issued U.S. Patent No. 7,355,930 on April 8.

The patent has been assigned to Ulead Systems Inc., Taipei.

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