Wistron Assigned Patent

Wistron Corporation, New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (10,141,030) developed by Shiu, Meng-Chian, Lo, Chi-Jen, Chen, Jhih-Ming, and Hsueh, Chia-Hsiung, New Taipei, Taiwan, for an “unloading mechanism assembly.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “An unloading mechanism assembly adapted to unload an optical disk drive from a housing of an electronic device includes a guiding component, a push rod and a driving module. The guiding component is disposed at a side of the optical disk drive along a first direction and has a first position limiting slot extending along a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction. The push rod is disposed in parallel with the guiding component along the first direction. The driving module is coupled between the guiding component and the push rod and includes a driving rod movably disposed through the first position limiting slot along a third direction, respectively perpendicular to the first and the second directions. The push rod is adapted to drive the driving module to pivotally rotate with respect to the guiding component.”

The patent application was filed on August 10, 2017 (15/673,421).