Disk apparatus

Details Disk apparatus Disk apparatus

1998-08-18

1999-06-29

Cao, Allen T.

Dynamic information storage or retrieval

Information location or remote operator actuated control

Selective addressing of storage medium

369 752, G11B 1722, G11B 3302

Patent

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059177853

ABSTRACT:
A disc apparatus has a cartridge loading/unloading mechanism to perform a loading operation for attaching an optical disc enclosed in a cartridge inserted from an outside to a rotary shaft of a spindle motor and an unloading operation for removing the optical disc from the rotary shaft of the spindle motor and for ejecting the cartridge to the outside. The loading operation of the cartridge loading/unloading mechanism is executed by the rotation of one direction of a load motor. The unloading operation of the cartridge loading/unloading mechanism is executed by the rotation in the reverse direction of the load motor. A drive current of the load motor is turned on or off at a short period, thereby adjusting so as to optimize a drive torque. When an exchangeable optical disc is loaded, a motor is activated, an initialization control is executed during the acceleration, and after a motor rotational speed reached a specific speed, the apparatus enables the writing/reading operations to be executed. When a voice coil motor is driven simultaneously with the spindle motor during the initialization adjustment, the drive current of the spindle motor is limited.

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