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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7908615 | Telescopic compactable memory disc adapter A compactable disc adapter having a substrate capable of effectively extending the diameter of a disc having a compacted position and an extended position. The diameter of the compacted substrate is less than the diameter of the disc whereas the diameter of the expa... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7373649 | Disk cartridge According to the present invention, there is provided a disk cartridge capable of being made compact although the disc cartridge has double structure, which cartridge is improved in light blocking effect and dustproof property, and is particularly suitable for use a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7363634 | Storage device assembly incorporating ejecting mechanism with safety latch A storage device assembly includes a storage device (40), a cover (30), a button (10) and a bracket (20). The storage device includes a tray (44). The cover defines a button slot (34) and a pair of apertures (38) ther... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360982 | Structure for holding recording tape cartridge and method of manufacturing said structure Various types of recording cartridges, each of which has a case which rotatably accommodates a reel on which a recording tape is wound, are provided with grasped portions with concave portions at side walls of the case and which a grasping device of a same, external... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7342747 | Recording disk cartridge A recording disk cartridge includes a plurality of flexible recording disk media integrally rotatably housed within a cartridge case including: a lower plate for configuring a lower wall; at least one inner plate partitioning the recording disk media; and an upper p... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343611 | Disc cartridge having disc taking-out history detecting portion A disc cartridge including a disc medium which is loaded into a drive device and into/from which information can be recorded/reproduced; a case that houses the disc medium rotatably; a disc opening from which the disc medium provided into the case can be taken out; ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337449 | Disk drive for minimizing jamming during disk positioning A disk drive including a tray having a seating portion in which a disk or disk cartridge is seated, and an opening hole, and further having a disk cartridge holder installed on the tray to be capable of sliding, the disk cartridge holder fixing the disk cartridge to... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7308696 | Data storage apparatus A CD Card for packaging card like information and digital information in the basic dimensions (length and width) of a business, credit or collectors card. The CD Card is made up of one, two, or three major components. The first component is a small compact disc with... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7294036 | Flying disc A circular planform wing includes a contiguous thin central plate having top and bottom surfaces. An outer annular rim encompasses the central plate. The rim has a lower edge defining a lower plane of the wing, and the central plate has an upper zone defining an upp... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286322 | Information field integrally formed by diskette housing to be receptive to handwritten indicia A method of presenting a data storage diskette to a user is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing the diskette and promoting that handwritten indicia be deposited directly onto an information field in labeling the diskette. In this regard, the disket... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7263705 | Disc drive cartridge and disc drive apparatus to prevent scratching of a disc when the disc is loaded into a disc drive A disc cartridge and a disc drive apparatus. The disc cartridge includes an upper case and a lower case which form an internal space to accommodate a disc, and a pair of elastic protrusions formed at both sidewalls of the lower cases, which are elastically biased to... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7213749 | Interactive multimedia smart affinity card A multimedia card, including, a multimedia portion, a multimedia card holder portion, and a multimedia cover portion, and wherein the multimedia cover portion and the multimedia card holder portion releasably cover the multimedia card portion in between the multimed... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7191460 | Disk protection casing and drive for receiving the same The disc protection casing includes a disc protection casing body having a disc receiving space therein. A disc holder, insertable into the interior of the disc protection casing body, has an elastic member formed at one end of the same for supporting a disc. When t... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7191459 | Adapter for non-circular disc An adapter A1 made of a synthetic resin includes an annular frame 1 having an outside diameter of 12 cm, a disk receiving section 2 provided continuously on a lower portion of an inner edge of the frame 1, and a pair of disk pressing sect... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7185814 | Layer structure and method of manufacture for optical memory strip (OMS) This invention discloses an optical memory strip and a data card that has at least an optical memory strip as a cutoff piece bonding and attaching to the data card for storing data accessible with an optical read/write head. The data card can further includes at lea... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7188350 | Promotional article and method for assembling the article A promotional article and a method for assembling the promotional article is disclosed. The promotional article includes a product, a flexible data carrier placed over the product, and a cover which secures the flexible data carrier to the product. The promotional a... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7168149 | Apparatus for closing a hinged molded part An apparatus and method for folding a hinged molded part in a molding machine. As a part-removal apparatus, preferably a swing arm mechanism, grips one of the lid portion or the base portion of the molded part and moves the molded part out of the mold, a deflector c... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7100180 | CD business card with container and/or adapter A CD Card for packaging card like information and digital information in the basic dimensions (length and width) of a business, credit or collectors card. The CD Card is made up of one, two, or three major components. The first component is a small compact disc with... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7073186 | Cartridge type recording medium and disk-shaped recording medium including a hole for centering each thereof, cartridge, driving unit and driving method The object of the present invention is to provide a technology which has high compatibility and can provide users with conveniences. A new system recording medium 100 has a center hole 112 formed on a recording disk 110 and a center hole 121 | 07/04/2006 |
| 7028321 | Media cartridge having a small-sized storage medium attachment unit A disk drive system having a disk-shaped disk storage medium and a disk drive for accessing the disk storage medium including a media cartridge of the same shape as that of the disk storage medium to which not less than one small-sized storage medium is attachable, ... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7021540 | Storage medium mounting/dismounting mechanism and information processing apparatus A storage medium can be mounted at and dismounted from an information processing apparatus without having to dismount a storage medium adapter from the information processing apparatus, and one of the storage medium and the storage medium adapter can be selectively ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017169 | Disk cartridge and disk recording and reproducing apparatus A disk cartridge 20 for a larger diameter, a disk cartridge 25 for a medium disk diameter, and a disk cartridge 30 for a smaller diameter contains a magneto-optical disk for a larger diameter, a magneto-optical disk for a medium diameter, and a ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6976264 | Adaptor for optical disk An optical disk adapter can position a deformed CD at a predetermined position in a disk-transferring tray by a very simple operation, and is simple in structure and easy in manufacture. At the central portion of an adapter main body (1a) having an ext... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6951024 | Optical disk reproducing apparatus and reproducing method An optical disk reproducing apparatus of a front loading type including an optical disk insertion assembly, which has a disk insertion port into which optical disks such as CDs and DVDs are inserted, and a disk transfer assembly which transfers the optical disks to ... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6944874 | Thin film data storage carrier A thin film data storage carrier (e.g., a flexible thin film compact disc) is described. The thin film data storage carrier (e.g., 111 of FIG. 8) has a cruciform aperture (114) therein, which is defined in part by two pairs of opposed arcuate si... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6922838 | Optical disc drive with memory medium accessing module An optical disc drive with a memory medium accessing module to access an optical disc and a memory medium. The optical disc drive includes a main body, a tray, a memory medium transformer and a connector. The tray is disposed on the main body. The tray supports the ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6874158 | Holder for an optically readable information disc A holder for holding at least one compact disc includes structure that releasably engages part of a peripheral edge of the disc, such that a continuous, flush, and planar upper surface is formed when the holder is engaged with the disc. ... | 03/29/2005 |
| 6871354 | Disc cartridge, optical disk device, and method for information recording and reproducing A disk cartridge includes a case, substantially rectangular in shape, provided with a disk-shaped rotatable recording medium therein, the case including a plurality of windows through which the recording medium is exposed and a recording or reproducing head is inser... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6807674 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge accommodating a disk includes a case receiving the disk and having openings. A shutter opens and/or closes the openings, where the openings deviate a predetermined distance from a middle position of the case toward one side. ... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6779193 | Digital data storage assembly with particular hub adaptor A digital data storage assembly (2), e.g., a flexible thin film compact disc, is described. Digital data storage assembly (2) includes, (a) a thin film data storage carrier (11), having substantially opposed first (14) and second (17 | 08/17/2004 |
| 6612762 | Printer The present invention is intended to provide an economical printer which is simple in structure and uses a common tray but is capable of adapting itself to various recording media of different shapes. Adapters in which recording media can be firmly held c... | 09/02/2003 |
| 6081501 | Attachment system for write-protect ring for optical disk A system for attaching an adhesive backed write-protect ring to an optical disk with the center of the ring aligned to the center of the central hole in the disk. A write-protect assembly is formed from a multilayer material having an adhesive backed labe... | 06/27/2000 |
| 5867476 | Cartridge adaptor and a cartridge to be accommodated in the cartridge adaptor A cartridge adaptor accommodates a second cartridge which is smaller than a first cartridge so as to allow the second cartridge to be mounted in a disk apparatus designed to receive the first cartridge. The cartridge adaptor includes a shutter opener enga... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5715233 | Cartridge adaptor and a cartridge to be accommodated in the cartridge adaptor A cartridge adaptor accommodates a second cartridge which is smaller than a first cartridge so as to allow the second cartridge to be mounted in a disk apparatus designed to receive the first cartridge. The cartridge adaptor includes a shutter opener enga... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5610902 | Adapter cartridge and caddy combination for hubless optical disk A cartridge which comprises an adapter cartridge and a caddy is employed for containing a hubless optical disk which can be processed in a standard optical disk drive for cartridges, such as an optical disk drive for an optical disk storage library. The a... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5331627 | Cartridge adaptor An adaptor cartridge for holding a 90 mm optical disk cartridge for insertion into a 130 mm disk drive apparatus. The cartridge adaptor emulates the external dimensions and features of a 130 mm cartridge so that it can be loaded into and manipulated by th... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5293293 | Disk cartridge for exchangeably accommodating a disk-shaped recording medium A disk cartridge includes a main body of the cartridge having an opening or its major surface by which the signal recording surface of an optical disk accommodated in the main body is exposed to outside and an aperture formed on the lateral surface orthog... | 03/08/1994 |
| 5208802 | Disk adapter for disk cartridge A disk adapter for a disk cartridge is formed to fit in a disk housing section of the disk cartridge. The disk adapter includes an opening at approximately its center for rotatably accommodating a small diameter disk and a positioning element for position... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5204853 | Adaptor for a disc cartridge case An adaptor for setting a disc which is of a smaller diameter than a standard type disc, such as an 8-cm Compact Disc, in a disc playback device such as a standard type Compact Disc player is detachably mounted in a disc housing space of a disc cartridge c... | 04/20/1993 |
| 5140489 | Disk cartridge adapted for use with different disk drives A protective cartridge for a data storage disk (e.g. optical, magneto-optical and magnetic disks) has two disk-access apertures which enable the disk to be used with two different types of disk drives, i.e. those which extract the disk from the cartridge ... | 08/18/1992 |
