Patent ID: 6583951
Filing Date: 2003-06-24
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
A shuttle motion assembly, positioned in a disk drive to load and unload a shuttle that holds a disk with recording media comprising:a base plate; a plurality of circular cams positioned on the base plate whose rotations control movements of the shuttle; a hook positioned above the base plate and mechanically driven by the circular cams to remove from a cartridge the shuttle contained therein; a horizontal motion assembly positioned on the base plate to receive the shuttle from the hook and mechanically coupled to the circular cams to create horizontal movement of the shuttle within the disk drive; a vertical motion assembly positioned on the base plate and mechanically coupled to the circular cams to create vertical movement of the shuttle for mounting the disk contained in the shuttle on a spinning motor; and a shuttle-door accessing mechanism positioned above and mechanically coupled to the plurality of the circular cams to open a door on the shuttle for accessing the recording media inside the shuttle.