Patent ID: 7100178

Claim:
A loading and unloading module for optical disk drives to transport an optical disc into or out of an optical disk drive, comprising: a track plate having a front end and a rear end, two guiding tracks located symmetrically on two sides of the front end and a rear track located on the rear end thereof; a moving plate movably located above the track plate having a bottom track on a rear end thereof corresponding to the rear track and two moving tracks symmetrically located on two sides corresponding to the guiding tracks; a guiding plate fixedly located above the moving plate having two transverse tracks located horizontally on two sides of a front end thereof; an elastic mechanism connecting to the moving plate and the guiding plate to allow the moving plate and the guiding plate to move elastically and reciprocally relative to each other; two front rollers movably coupled with the guiding tracks of the track plate, the moving tracks of the moving plate and the transverse tracks of the guiding plate; a rear roller movably coupled with the rear track of the track plate and the bottom track of the moving plate; and a guiding arm located above the guiding plate being movably and pivotally engaged with the moving plate, and having a rear end track to couple with the rear roller and a front end to couple with the front rollers.