JP5669131B2 - Information processing device - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus.

  As a conventional information processing apparatus, for example, a display housing with a built-in display panel and a main body having a display section for displaying information signals on the display panel are pivotally supported so that they can be inserted into and removed from the main body. There is known a notebook personal computer including a disk drive device having a tray on which a possible information medium such as a CD and a DVD is placed (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2000-148291 A

  Incidentally, the conventional information processing apparatus is configured such that the tray can be pulled out horizontally from the main body. The tray included in the drive built in the information processing apparatus has a window for transmitting / receiving a desired information signal by irradiating an information medium placed on the tray with an optical pickup from below the tray drawn into the drive. In general, it is provided with a notch provided on the tray in order to reduce the weight of the information processing apparatus itself as much as possible. For this reason, when pulling out the tray from the main body, the tray comes into contact with articles on the surface on which the main body is placed, and the light irradiation side substrate in the information medium placed on the tray is damaged, or the main body In some cases, the tray could not be pulled out.

  As a method for solving this problem, the problem can be solved by increasing the height of the tray placed inside the main body, and separating the tray and the article on the surface on which the main body is placed. Since the thickness of the computer increases, it becomes a configuration that conflicts with the recent demand for miniaturization and thinning, and is not realistic, and for example, the information processing device is operated on a desk that is normally operated with a writing instrument or the like. In this case, the height of the input unit such as a keyboard disposed on the upper surface of the housing of the main body is increased, so that the operability is lowered, and as a result, for example, the fatigue of the operator who presses the key input unit is promoted. It will be.

  In addition, there is a demand for downsizing and thinning in recent years not only in the above notebook personal computer but also in information processing devices such as a recorder for recording television images and the like, and an external storage device of the computer. The problem arises.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems. When the tray is ejected from the main body, the possibility of the tray coming into contact with an article on the surface on which the main body is placed is reduced, and the tray is ejected. An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus capable of reducing the thickness of a main body in which a drive to be inserted is arranged.

In order to solve the above-described problem, an information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a main body housing having a top surface, a bottom surface facing the top surface, and a front surface that is continuous with the top surface and the bottom surface and has an opening. A tray having a media placement section on which a front end portion is disposed in the main body casing so as to face the opening and on which a disk-shaped information medium is placed; and the media placement section is stored in the main body casing. A moving mechanism for reversibly moving between the stored storage position and the take-out position where at least a part of the media placement section is exposed through the opening, and discharging and inserting the tray into the main body housing; reading of information by irradiation of light on the information layer in which the information medium comprises and or a pickup unit for writing, and a drive unit comprising, plane direction substantially the same side of the take-out position and the storage position The tray is discharged from the rear end toward the front end, and when the main body casing is placed on the surface, the upper surface of the main body casing is lowered from the rear end toward the front end. And the direction from the storage position toward the extraction position is higher from the storage position toward the extraction position with respect to the bottom surface of the main body casing and the surface on which the main body casing is placed. It is inclined to.

According to this configuration, it is possible to reduce the thickness of the information processing apparatus that can reduce the possibility of the tray coming into contact with an article on the surface on which the main body housing is placed when the tray is discharged from the main body housing. be able to. In addition, since the front part of the main body casing is relatively thinner than the rear part, the possibility of contact between the tray and the article on the main body casing placement surface is increased, and the appearance of the tray on the main body casing placement surface is increased. The upper inclination angle can be made small. Therefore, the tray tilting effect of the present invention becomes more prominent.

  The inclination angle of the tray discharge and insertion direction with respect to the bottom surface of the main body housing may be 1 degree or more and 8 degrees or less.

  According to this configuration, when the inclination angle is 8 degrees or less, the operator does not feel uncomfortable with the inclination of the tray or that it is difficult to place the information medium on the medium placement portion. The said effect is acquired more suitably as the said inclination-angle is 1 degree or more.

  The drive unit may be an optical drive configured to be able to read information on an information medium having a pickup-side substrate layer thickness of less than 0.2 mm.

  According to this configuration, it is possible to reduce the possibility that the substrate on the pickup side of the information medium placed on the tray and the article on the surface on which the main body housing is placed are brought into contact. The possibility of damaging the information layer by breaking through the substrate on the information media pickup side can be reduced.

  When the information medium is a Blu-ray disc, the possibility that the substrate on the pickup side of the Blu-ray disc placed on the tray and the article on the surface on which the main body housing is placed can be reduced, The possibility that the article damages the substrate on the pickup side of the Blu-ray disc or breaks the substrate and damages the information layer can be reduced.

  The information processing apparatus is a computer that further includes a recorder, an external storage device, or an input unit for inputting information provided on an upper surface of the main body housing and a processing unit for processing the input information. There may be.

  According to this configuration, the information processing apparatus can be used as a computer, a recorder, or an external storage device.

  The present invention is configured as described above, and an information processing apparatus that reduces the possibility of a tray coming into contact with an article on a surface on which the main body housing is placed when the tray is ejected from the main body housing. There is an effect that the thickness can be reduced.

It is a perspective view which shows the structure of the information processing apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a side view which shows the structure of the information processing apparatus of FIG. It is a perspective view which shows the structure of the information processing apparatus which concerns on Embodiment 2 of this invention.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In the following description, the same or corresponding elements are denoted by the same reference numerals throughout all the drawings, and redundant description thereof is omitted.

(Embodiment 1)
FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the information processing apparatus 100 according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a side view showing the configuration of the information processing apparatus 100 of FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 1, an information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment is an information processing apparatus called a so-called laptop personal computer or notebook personal computer. Hereinafter, the side on which the operator of the information processing apparatus 100 is located is referred to as the front, the right side and the left side as viewed from the operator of the information processing apparatus 100 are referred to as the right and left, respectively, The side to do is called the back.

  The information processing apparatus 100 includes a main body portion 1 and a display portion 2 that is rotatably attached around a central axis of a hinge portion 10 provided at the rear end portion of the main body portion 1. The display unit 2 is connected to a circuit board (not shown) provided inside the main body unit 1. In addition, the display part 2 may be provided away from the main-body part 1, and in this case, the hinge part 10 becomes unnecessary.

  The main body 1 includes a main body housing 12 and a drive unit 20.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the main body housing 12 is a flat box-shaped body, and has a top surface 12a, a bottom surface 12b facing the top surface 12a, and side surfaces continuous to the top surface 12a and the bottom surface 12b. Of these side surfaces, the side surface connected to the front end portion of the upper surface 12a and the front end portion of the bottom surface 12b is the front surface 12c. An opening 13 (see FIG. 1) is formed, for example, on the right side of the front surface 12c. The main body housing 12 accommodates various electrical components such as a circuit board constituting an information processing unit (not shown). In addition, an external connection connector (not shown), a status display unit that indicates an operation state, and the like are provided on the side surface of the main body housing 12.

  As shown in FIG. 1, a keyboard 14 and a touch pad 15 (input unit) for inputting information are provided on the upper surface 12a. The keyboard 14 and the touch pad 15 are connected to the above-described circuit board provided inside the main body housing 12.

  As shown in FIG. 2, for example, the height H1 of the front end portion of the upper surface 12a from the placement surface A of the main body case 12 is the main body case of the rear end portion (that is, the hinge portion 10 side) of the upper surface 12a. The height 12 from the mounting surface A of 12 is formed lower. That is, the upper surface 12a on which the keyboard 14 and the touch pad 15 are provided is configured to face the operator in the viewing direction. Accordingly, the upper surface 12a is inclined in a direction in which the operator's hand side is lowered, so that the operability of the keyboard 14 and the touch pad 15 can be improved. However, the presence or absence of the inclination of the upper surface 12a is not particularly limited.

  The bottom surface 12b is formed flat, for example, as shown in FIG.

  The drive unit 20 is information recorded on a disc-shaped information medium in which a central hole is formed in the center of a CD (Compact Disc), a DVD (Digital Versatile Disc), a Blu-ray Disc (registered trademark), or the like. Is read out and written into the information medium, and is connected to the circuit board provided inside the main body housing 12. The disk-shaped information medium means that the outer shape of the medium itself is a disk shape, and does not include, for example, a cartridge type information medium in which the disk-shaped information medium is housed in a case. Therefore, the flexible disk is not included in the disk-shaped information medium.

  The drive unit 20 includes a flat box-shaped drive unit housing 25 having an opening formed on the front surface.

  The drive unit housing 25 is disposed inside the main body housing 12, and the opening of the drive unit housing 25 is disposed facing the opening 13 of the main body housing 12.

  A tray 21 on which an information medium is placed is provided inside the drive unit housing 25. As shown in FIG. 1, the tray 21 has a circular recess at the center of the upper surface, and the recess constitutes a media placement unit 30 on which an information medium is placed. However, strictly speaking, in this embodiment, the turntable 34 is configured to be slightly higher and parallel to the medium placement unit 30 and the information medium is placed on the turntable 34 (described later). The placement unit 30 will be described below as being provided in the tray 20. In the present embodiment, the medium mounting portion 30 is formed to have a maximum diameter of about 12 centimeters (for example, a small diameter information medium of 6 centimeters can be placed), and a CD, DVD, and 12 centimeters in diameter. A Blu-ray disc can be placed. Therefore, the information medium can be easily positioned on the medium placement unit 30 by placing the information medium in the circular depression. Further, the tray 21 may be provided with a configuration having a notch 31 on the right side, for example, for weight reduction.

  Further, a cover 23 is provided at the front end of the tray 21 so as to be able to close the opening of the drive unit housing 25 and prevent dust and the like from entering the drive unit housing 25. A takeout button 24 for taking out the tray 21 from the drive unit housing 25 is provided on the outer surface of the cover 23. Note that the cover 23 may be omitted, and instead, for example, a shutter that opens and closes the opening may be provided at the edge of the opening of the main body housing 12 or the drive unit housing 25.

  A rotating shaft 22 that is rotated by a motor (not shown) is provided at the center of the tray 21. A turntable 34 is formed around the rotating shaft 22, and the information medium is accurately placed on the turntable 34 as described above. The rotating shaft 22 includes a chucking portion (not shown) that fits by chucking with a central hole of the information medium placed on the media placement portion 30. Thereby, the rotating shaft 22 is configured to rotate together with the information medium. And since the notch part 31 is formed as above-mentioned, the edge part of the information media fitted with the rotating shaft 22 is exposed outside without being interrupted by the side wall of the media mounting part 30. As a result, the edge of the information medium can be pushed up, and the information medium can be easily removed from the chucking portion provided in the rotating shaft 22.

  A hole 32 is formed in the media placement portion 30 so as to extend radially outward from the rotation shaft 22. In the hole 32, an objective lens (not shown) reciprocates in the direction in which the hole 32 extends to read information recorded on the information medium placed on the medium placement part 30 and write information to the information medium. A pickup 33 (pickup unit) is provided.

  The tray 21 is taken out from the main body casing 12 through the storage position inserted into the drive unit 20 by the driving force of the driving section 26 (moving mechanism) together with the rotary shaft 22 and the pickup 33 and the opening 13 of the main body casing 12. It is configured to be reversibly movable in a linear direction by being guided by a guide unit (not shown) between positions. Then, by placing the tray 21 at the take-out position, the media placement unit 30 is exposed, and the information medium is placed on the media placement unit 30 or the information medium is removed from the media placement unit 30. Can do. The take-out position is, for example, a position where the tray 21 protrudes 6 to 12 cm from the main body housing 12, that is, a position between a position where the central hole of the information medium is exposed and a position where all of the information medium is exposed.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the drive unit 20 is mounted such that the height of the front end 20a from the mounting surface A of the main body housing 12 is higher than the height of the rear end 20b from the mounting surface A. Inclined with respect to the mounting surface A. That is, the discharge and insertion directions of the tray 21 are inclined so as to increase from the storage position toward the extraction position with respect to the bottom surface 12b. In FIG. 2, the pick-up 33 and the spindle motor that rotates the media are omitted because they are complicated.

  The inclination angle (inclination angle in the tray 21 ejection and insertion direction) θ of the drive unit 20 is set to an angle inclined, for example, from 1 degree to 8 degrees with respect to the bottom surface 12b. If it is 1 degree or more, the possibility that the tray 21 will come into contact with the article placed on the placement surface A of the main body housing 12 can be suitably reduced. Further, when the angle is 8 degrees or less, the operator does not feel uncomfortable with the inclination of the tray 21 or feels that it is difficult to place the information medium on the medium placement unit 30. Note that the inclination angle θ in the discharge and insertion direction of the tray 21 is specifically defined as the inclination angle of the media placement surface 30 (equivalent to the surface formed by the turntable 34) on which the information medium is placed with respect to the bottom surface 12b. Is done. In the present embodiment, the inclination angle θ of the media placement unit 30 with respect to the bottom surface 11b is 3 degrees.

  As described above, according to the information processing apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment, the discharge and insertion directions of the tray 21 are inclined so as to increase from the storage position toward the extraction position with respect to the bottom surface 12b. Therefore, the mounting surface A of the main body housing 12 and the tray 21 that moves toward the take-out position can be separated. Thereby, the possibility that the tray 21 that moves toward the take-out position comes into contact with the article placed on the placement surface A of the main body housing 12 can be reduced.

  Further, the distance between the information medium placed on the tray 21 and the placement surface A can be increased, and the article placed on the placement surface A is, for example, a notch 31 on the substrate on the information medium pickup 33 side. Alternatively, it is possible to prevent contact through the hole 32 and break through the hole 32 to damage the information layer, or damage the substrate on the light irradiation side to change the optical characteristics. This is especially true when the drive unit 20 has a substrate layer thickness of less than 0.2 mm, such as a Blu-ray disc, so that the amount of information that can be stored per disc is CD or DVD. This is effective when the information of the optical disc can be read out significantly higher.

(Embodiment 2)
FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing the configuration of the information processing apparatus 200 according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the information processing apparatus 200 according to the present embodiment is an external storage device that is used by being connected to a personal computer. The information processing apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment does not include the display unit 2, the keyboard 14, and the touch pad 15, exchanges information with a personal computer (not shown) via the signal line 201, and reads information from the information medium. And / or write. Further, the information processing apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment is different from the configuration in which the information medium is placed on the turntable 34 and chucked by the rotating shaft 22 having a chucking unit (not shown). The information processing apparatus 100 places an information medium on the medium placement unit 30 included in the tray 21, and when the tray 21 is inserted into the information processing apparatus 200, it is chucked by a chucking member (not shown) from above. To do. The rest is basically the same as in the first embodiment. Further, the information processing apparatus 200 may be a recorder that records a television video or the like such as a so-called Blu-ray disc recorder.

  From the foregoing description, many modifications and other embodiments of the present invention are obvious to one skilled in the art. Accordingly, the foregoing description should be construed as illustrative only and is provided for the purpose of teaching those skilled in the art the best mode of carrying out the invention. The details of the structure and / or function may be substantially changed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

  The information processing apparatus of the present invention is useful as an information processing apparatus such as a laptop personal computer or a notebook personal computer.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body part 2 Display part 10 Hinge part 12 Main body housing | casing 12a (Main body housing) Top surface 12b (Main body housing) Bottom surface 12c (Main body housing) Front surface 14 Keyboard 15 Touchpad 20 Drive unit 21 Tray 22 Rotating shaft 23 Cover 24 Eject button 25 Drive unit housing 26 Drive unit 30 Media placement unit 31 Notch portion 32 Hole portion 33 Pickup 34 Turntable 100 Information processing device

Claims (5)

A main body housing having an upper surface, a bottom surface facing the upper surface, and a front surface continuous with the upper surface and the bottom surface and having an opening formed therein;
A tray having a media placement section on which a front end portion is disposed in the main body casing so as to face the opening and on which a disc-shaped information medium is placed, and the media placement section is housed in the main body casing. A moving mechanism for reversibly moving between the storage position and the take-out position where at least a part of the media placement portion is exposed through the opening, and discharging and inserting the tray into and from the main body housing; A drive unit including a pickup unit that reads and / or writes information by irradiating light to an information layer included in the information medium,
The surface direction of the storage position and the extraction position are substantially the same direction,
The discharge direction of the tray is a direction from the rear end toward the front end,
When the main body casing is placed on the surface, the upper surface of the main body casing is inclined so as to become lower from the rear end toward the front end,
In addition, the direction from the storage position toward the take-out position is inclined with respect to the bottom surface of the main body housing and the surface on which the main body housing is placed so as to increase from the storage position toward the take-out position. Information processing device.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an inclination angle of the tray discharge and insertion direction with respect to a bottom surface of the main body housing is 1 degree or more and 8 degrees or less.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the drive unit is an optical drive configured to be able to read information on an information medium having a substrate layer thickness of less than 0.2 mm on the pickup unit side.   The information processing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the information medium is a Blu-ray disc. The information processing apparatus is a computer that further includes a recorder, an external storage device, or an input unit for inputting information provided on an upper surface of the main body housing and a processing unit for processing the input information. The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 4 .

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