Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Assigned Nine Patents

Optical disc drive having tray with guide supports and main circuit board
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,245,574) developed by Lee, Hyun-woo, Suwon-si, Korea, Hag-Ryeol, Yongin-si, Korea, Roh, Min-shik, Seoul, Korea, and , Young-woo, Suwon-si, Korea, for a “optical disc drive having a tray with guide supports and main circuit board.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An optical disk drive including: a housing, a tray installed in the housing, an optical pickup unit mounted in the tray, and a guide shaft mounted in the tray such that the optical pickup unit and the guide shaft are configured such that the optical pickup unit is reciprocally movable along the guide shaft.“

The patent application was filed on December 19, 2011 (13/329,539).

Selective interfacing
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,235,351) developed by Jeong, Soon-gyu, Suwon-si, Korea, Lim, Dong-hwan, Yongin-si, Korea, Kim, Hyung-kyoon, Suwon-si, Korea, Lee, Dong-jin, Seongnam-si, Korea, Kim, Chang-heon, and,Won, Suwon-si, Korea, for a “selective interfacing apparatus and method.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An optical disc drive, and a method of driving the optical disc drive are provided. Where the optical disc drive has a connectivity or a compatibility with a host that is incompatible with the optical disc drive, a file system and device information accepted by the host are provided. The host may have a compatibility with limited external medium devices and a specific command set for data exchange. The optical disc drive and the method of driving the optical disc drive may transmit compatible information to the host and select the specific command set accepted by the host, so that the optical disc drive is compatible with the host.“

The patent application was filed on June 24, 2010 (12/822,969).

Objective lens driving unit and optical pickup device
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,196,287) developed by Lee, Young-bin, Suwon-si, Korea, for a “objective lens driving unit and optical pickup device adopting the same.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An objective lens driving unit including a moving structure to which an objective lens and a driving coil are operatively installed, a static structure which includes a magnetic circuit corresponding to the driving coil, a plurality of suspension wires each of which has a first end and a second end, the first end being operatively connected to the static structure, and the second end being operatively connected to the moving structure, and circuit boards operatively installed to the moving structure, the circuit boards including a plurality of wiring layers, wherein the wiring layers include first terminals to which the driving coil is connected and second terminals to which the second end of each of the plurality of is connected.“

The patent application was filed on September 23, 2011 (13/243,384).

Focus controlling and optical disk drive using the focus controlling
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,177,591) developed by Chun, Kwan-ho, Seoul, Korea, for a “focus controlling method and optical disk drive using the focus controlling.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An apparatus and method control a disk drive servo, and more particularly, an apparatus and method control a servo when moving between layers of a disk in a multi-layered disk drive. A focus controlling method, as an example of the servo controlling method, includes the operations of performing aberration correction according to a change of a recording layer of a disk from a currently accessed recording layer to a recording layer desired to be accessed, and changing the value of a parameter set that determines characteristics of signals for use in servo control of an optical disk drive, according to an aberration correction amount that is used during the aberration correction.“

The patent application was filed on August 29, 2008 (12/230,535).

Optical pickup and optical information storage system
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,147,426) developed by Kim, Ki-bok, Suwon-si, Korea, Ahn, Ji-sun, Seoul, Korea, Im, Ju-hee, Suwon-si, Korea, Jeong, Jin-ho, Seoul, Korea, and Han, Seung-man, Suwon-si, Korea, for a “optical pickup and optical information storage system including the same.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided are an optical pickup and an optical information storage system including the same. The optical pickup includes a diffracting element that splits incident light into main light and a plurality of sub light. The diffracting element has at least three regions including first through third regions. A second region is disposed between a first region and a third region and has a phase difference from the first and third regions. The optical pickup detects a tracking error signal by using light diffracted by the diffracting element.“

The patent application was filed on February 25, 2014 (14/188,853).

Optical pickup and optical information storage system
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,142,243) developed by Kim, Ki-bok, Suwon-si, Korea, Jeong, Jin-ho, Seoul, Korea, Kim, Eun-goo, Oh, Jung-bae, and Han, Seung-man, Suwon-si, Korea, for a “optical pickup and optical information storage system including the same.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided are an optical pickup and an optical information storage system including the same. The optical pickup includes a photodetector that receives a main light beam and a plurality of sub-light beams reflected from an information storage medium and diffracted by a diffracting element. The photo detector detects a tracking error signal using zeroth-order light as the main light beam and using one of first-order light and third-order light as the sub-light beam based on a type of an optical information storage medium.“

The patent application was filed on February 24, 2014 (14/187,579).

Disc loading device and optical disc drive
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,129,637) developed by Choi, Un-jin, Suwon-si, Korea, Ko, Joung-sug, Seoul, Korea, Baek, Sang-yun, Seongnam-si, Korea, and Ahn, Cheol-woong, Seoul, Korea, for a “disc loading device and optical disc drive including the same.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided is a disc loading device and optical disc drive using the same. The disc loading device includes a loading roller for loading a disc in a main frame, an eject lever for discharging the disc out of the main frame, and a main slider operating the eject lever, and moving in a direction by a disc emergency ejection pin inserted from outside of the main frame.“

The patent application was filed on November 21, 2012 (13/682,947).

Tilt adjusting apparatus and optical disc drive
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,129,615) developed by Park, Seong-yeon, Suwon-si, Korea, for a “tilt adjusting apparatus and optical disc drive using the same.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Provided is a tilt adjusting apparatus of an optical disc drive for adjusting a tilt of an optical pickup unit. The tilt adjusting apparatus includes an optical pickup unit moving in a radial direction of the disc, along first and second guide shafts. The tilt adjusting unit also includes a fixing support unit that fixes the first guide shaft and an adjustment supporting unit that supports the second guide shaft and enables the height of both ends of the second guide shaft to be adjusted.“

The patent application was filed on February 24, 2014 (14/187,721).

Disk drive including noise reduction unit and reducing noise by using disk drive
Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Korea Corporation, Suwon-Si, Korea, has been assigned a patent (9,123,388) developed by Roh, Min-shik, Kim, Se-yoon, Seoul, Korea, Hwang, Bo-won, Park, Byung-yeob, Suwon-si, Korea, Jung, Dong-ha, Jung, Ji-won, Yongin-si, Korea, and Ha, Min-seok, Seoul, Korea, for a “disk drive including a noise reduction unit and method of reducing noise by using the disk drive.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A disk drive that includes a noise reduction unit, and a method of reducing noise by using the disk drive. The disk drive includes a main chassis, a tray operatively coupled to the main chassis such that the tray is slidable relative to the main chassis, the tray including a disk accommodation portion configured to accommodate a storage medium such that the storage medium is rotatable relative to the disk accommodation portion, and a noise reduction unit configured to reduce a pressure concentration on an end portion of the storage medium as the storage medium rotates to reduce noise.“

The patent application was filed on October 20, 2011 (13/277,332).