Hard disc device

• US 20060007794A1
• Filed: 07/07/2005
• Published: 01/12/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/09/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Matsui, Tsutomu
• Granted Patent: US 7,251,088 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 369/30.10
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/2009 Turntables, hubs and motors for disk drives; Mounting of motors in the drive means for clamping of disk to turntable G11B17/022 and subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/0318 Containers with incorporated transducing heads
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 5/5569 details of specially adapted mobile parts, e.g. electromechanical control devices motors in general H02K
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 9/062 characterised by the form, e.g. comprising mechanical protection elements

Abstract

A portable hard disc device which is read by a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, including: a disc for recording and/or reproducing; a head slider for recording and/or reproducing the disc; an arm mechanism for moving the head slider to a predetermined position; a voice coil motor type coil for driving the arm mechanism by being driven by an external magnetic field generated by magnets provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus and a current supplied from a power circuit; a spindle for rotating the disc after the disc is fixed; and a power circuit for supplying a current to the voice coil motor type coil.

Claims

1. A portable read-only hard disc device which is read by a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, comprising:

a disc on which information is recorded by recess and projection formed by nano-imprinting;

a read-only head slider;

a secondary coil constituting a transformer together with a primary coil provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus;

a power circuit having a rechargeable battery which accumulates power supplied from the secondary coil;

an arm mechanism for moving the head slider to a predetermined position;

a voice coil motor type coil for driving the arm mechanism after being driven by a current supplied from the power circuit and magnets provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus;

a spindle which is driven without contact by a spindle motor provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus, after the disc is fixed; and

a communication unit for transmitting and receiving reproducing signals and servo signals from the disc, and driving signals bound for the voice coil motor type coil to and from the recording and/or reproducing apparatus.

2. A portable hard disc device which is read by a recording and/or reproducing apparatus, comprising:

a disc for recording and/or reproducing;

a head slider for recording and/or reproducing the disc;

an arm mechanism for moving the head slider to a predetermined position;

a voice coil motor type coil for driving the arm mechanism by being driven by an external magnetic field generated by magnets provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus and a current supplied from a power circuit;

a spindle for rotating the disc after the disc is fixed; and

a power circuit for supplying a current to the voice coil motor type coil.

3. The hard disc device according to claim 2,

wherein the spindle is driven without contact by a spindle motor provided in the recording and/or reproducing apparatus.

4. The hard disc device according to claim 2, further comprising

a communication unit for transmitting and receiving reproducing signals and servo signals from the disc, and driving signals bound for the voice coil motor type coil to and from the recording and/or reproducing apparatus,

wherein the power circuit receives power supply from the recording and/or reproducing apparatus without contact.

5. The hard disc device according to claim 2,

wherein the disc is used as a reproducing-only ROM.

6. The hard disc device according to claim 2,

wherein the disc includes a ROM area to be used as a read-only ROM, and an area to be used as a readable and writable RAM area.