Patent 7089570 was granted and assigned to Samsung on August, 2006 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An optical disc changer having a main body, a tray slidably installed in the main body, a roulette rotatably installed at the tray to accommodate a plurality of optical discs, an optical pickup device to selectively reproduce one of the optical discs accommodated on the roulette, and a damping unit to absorb shock when the tray is loaded in and unloaded from the main body to prevent defective reproduction of data from the optical disc.