US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Sept. 29 for "Optical disc drive with conveyor and centering mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,506, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Optical disc drive with conveyor and centering mechanism" was invented by Jun Sakamoto (Tokyo) and Kazuto Nakagawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an optical disc drive that can guide the center of an optical disc to the position of a spindle motor, while allowing the number of components to be reduced. A base frame includes a stopper portion that comes into contact with an outer edge of the optical disc having reached the position of a spindle motor and that restricts backward movement of the optical disc. A swit...