DEVICE FOR STORING AND/OR READING INFORMATION FROM OPTICAL DISK Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: information storage devices. SUBSTANCE: device has housing which length, width and height is not greater than 112 mm, 89 mm and 31 mm correspondingly. In addition device has unit for load of cassette, unit for driving rotation of optical cassette, which is located in disk cassette, optical receiving unit, which moves across inner and outer edges of optical disk, which rotation is driven by mechanism for disk rotation for storing or reading information signals from optical disk, magnetic head unit for generation of outer magnetic field on basis of recorded information signals, unit for loading disk cassette to unit for load of cassette and for load of optical disk, which is located in disk cassette, towards disk drive, unit for storing cassette stacks. Outer side of housing has unit for representation of information signals, which are read by optical head, and unit for storing information signals to optical disk, which is located in disk cassette, by means of optical head and magnetic head, and several buttons for setting modes of device operations. EFFECT: increased functional capabilities. 14 cl, 12 dwg