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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7730504 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge in which is housed an optical disc includes a main cartridge body unit, rotatably housing an optical disc, and having an aperture for a head part for exposing a part of the optical disc to outside across the inner and... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7698717 | System for recording/reproducing photosensitive recording medium A system for recording/reproducing a photosensitive recording medium, comprising: a photosensitive recording medium cartridge including a cartridge body, a shutter, and a lock mechanism as defined herein; and a recording/reproducing device including a housing, an in... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7665103 | Photosensitive recording medium, and recording and reproducing apparatus for same A photosensitive recording medium comprising a substrate in a shape of disc having a center hole in a center part, and a holographic recording layer made from a photosensitive material, said photosensitive recording medium including a clamp area provided near an edg... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7657903 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge includes: a lower housing having a window for allowing a recorder or reader to access to a read-out surface of a disc; and an upper housing coupled to the lower housing to ejectably receive the disc between the lower ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7555763 | Disk cartridge A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge in which is housed an optical disc includes a main cartridge body unit, rotatably housing an optical disc, and having an aperture for a head part for exposing a part of the optical disc to outside across the inner and... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7475413 | Data storage cartridge having a reduced thickness segment A data storage cartridge is described. The cartridge may include a housing having a top, a bottom, a front side, a back side, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side, said housing having a first media access aperture on the top of the housing; and a data sto... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7440232 | Multi-disk cartridge and disks with interlocking spacers for stacking A recording disk cartridge includes a plurality of flexible recording disk media integrally rotatably housed within a cartridge case. Each of the recording disk media is fixed to a center core which is stacked one on another through a spacer. The cartridge case incl... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7383560 | Multi-disk data cartridge The invention is directed to data cartridges including a plurality of data storage disks. The invention applies the multi-disk data cartridges to a “jukebox” system in which one of the data cartridges is inserted into a computing device that de-cartridges and po... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7383559 | Disc cartridge of reduced size A disc cartridge reduced in size and thickness and yet exhibiting sufficient strength. The disc cartridge includes a main body unit of the cartridge including upper and lower halves in which is housed an optical disc. A tubular section is formed in one of two areas ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7356827 | Disk cartridge A disc cartridge is provided. The disc cartridge includes an optical disc and a main cartridge body unit rotatably housing the optical disc. A lateral surface of the main cartridge body unit as an inserting end of the main cartridge body unit into the recording and/... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7331056 | Data storage cartridge having baffles A media cartridge for use with data storage libraries. The cartridge includes a housing having an opening through which a carrier tray can be loaded and extracted to reveal a media element. A number of baffles are included to limit exposure of the media elements to ... | 02/12/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7249364 | Methods and systems for scaling and rotating an image in a single operation A disc cartridge includes: a cartridge body including a disc storage portion storing a disc, having first and second sides, therein so that the disc is rotatable there and that the first side is exposed and chucking and head opening formed on the bottom of the stora... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7222352 | Cartridge for an information recording medium A cartridge for an information recording medium includes a cartridge case, an opening cover, detachably mounted to a rear side opening of the cartridge case, for enabling the information recording medium to be withdrawn or inserted with respect to the cartridge case... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216357 | Disc cartridge having a shutter that includes a convex portion protruding into a center hole of the disc A disc cartridge includes a cartridge body having a disc storage portion, a chucking opening and a head opening. The disc storage portion has a disc window and a bottom and stores a disc, having first and second sides, therein so that the disc is rotatable in the di... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7207052 | Recording medium cartridge and recording and reproducing device To provide a recording-medium cartridge and a recording-and-reproducing device in which a write-once area and a re-writable area can exist together. By controlling recording-and-reproducing device 11 based on the information showing the re-writable area and t... | 04/17/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7185351 | Cartridge for an information recording medium A cartridge for an information recording medium includes a cartridge case, an opening cover, detachably mounted to a rear side opening of the cartridge case, for enabling the information recording medium to be withdrawn or inserted with respect to the cartridge case... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181754 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge which includes a case having an upper wall, a lower wall, and a sidewall, which form an inner receiving space in which a disk is inserted, an opening formed in at least one of the upper wall and lower wall of the case to allow a recording/reproducin... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7173179 | Solar co-generator A solar co-generator for producing both heat energy and electricity is disclosed. A solar concentrator directs sunlight into a container lined with solar cells and filled with a thermal transfer fluid. The fluid is transparent with respect to certain wavelengths of ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7092202 | Enhanced airflow conditioning system for removable data storage cartridge A removable storage cartridge includes an air transport unit for processing airflow while the cartridge is installed in a disk drive, with the air transport unit recirculating air without interfering with the rotation of a storage disk in the cartridge or interferin... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7093271 | Disk drive A disc drive according to the present invention is adapted to a disk cartridge including: a disk; a body to contain the disk; a window provided for the body to allow a data reading and/or writing head to access the disk; a shutter for opening or closing the window; ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7069570 | Disk cartridge with disk cleaning structure A disk cartridge and a disk recording and/or reproduction apparatus including a protrusion group which is made up of a plurality of protrusions and formed within a case housing a disk or within a housing in which a disk is loaded. Accordingly, the protrusions induce... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7058000 | Information recording disc having an anti-reflection layer and information recording/reproducing apparatus An anti-reflection coating layer is formed on the surface portion of a recording medium. This enables to obtain a margin for the air gap thickness change when recording/reproducing an information signal using the “near-field technique” as well as minimize a data... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054150 | Mounting for disk drive unit and method of handling A mounting for a disk drive unit includes a carrier for carrying a disk drive unit during required movement of the disk drive unit. The carrier defines a space into which the disk drive unit can be inserted, and the carrier is adapted to be inserted with the disk dr... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055163 | Disc cartridge and disc drive A disc cartridge of the present invention has an arrangement in which a disc cover is provided so as to cover one side of a disc in a disc shape having a recording layer for recording/reproducing information. This arrangement protects a surface for recording/reprodu... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043743 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge including a recording disk medium of diameter 2 inches or less and a housing. The housing is made up of a frame and upper and lower metal shells. The frame has a plurality of recesses in the side walls thereof, and the side walls of the upper and lo... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7032233 | Cartridge housing a recording medium and drive device for recording medium A disk cartridge has a write protect portion for switching between a write-allowed state and a write-inhibited state. The write protect portion is equipped with two prisms having reflection faces different in reflectivity which are rotatably supported therein. In a ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7028322 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge includes: a cartridge body including a disc storage portion storing a disc, having first and second sides, therein so that the disc is rotatable there and that the first side is exposed and chucking and head opening formed on the bottom of the stora... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7020885 | Data storage cartridge loading system A data drive and a method of operating a data drive are provided. The data drive includes a drive base; a data transfer mechanism coupled to the drive base; a carriage assembly for receiving a cartridge containing a data storage medium; and a carriage assembly actua... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7013476 | Cartridge for miniature optical data storage disc A cartridge for an optical data storage disc includes a sheet metal sheath that is folded back on itself and a plastic insert that is inserted into the sheath. An opening is formed in the plastic insert for holding an optical data storage disc. The sheath includes t... | 03/14/2006 |
| 7007291 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge the present invention includes a cartridge body and first and second shutters. The cartridge body includes a disc storage portion, a chucking opening and a head opening. The disc storage portion has a disc window and a bottom and stores a disc, havi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7007290 | Flexible airfoil ring for safely flying CDs and DVDs An annular protective ring attachment designed to grip the outer peripheral edge of all compact discs (CDs) and digital video discs (DVDs) which, when used in combination with said CD or DVD, creates an airfoil. The airfoil ring consists of an inner periphery, which... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6967817 | Recording medium cartridge having cartridge memory with fragile portion A recording medium cartridge is provided with a cartridge medium and cartridge memory in a cartridge case composed by being divided into two halves, in which the cartridge memory has a fragile part partially formed therein, one side bordered on the fragile part is f... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6948179 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge is provided in which if the width of the disk cartridge is W1 and the outside diameter of the disk is D1, then W1 is about the same as D1. Inside the disk cartridge is a disk space in which the disk can rotate. A movement restricting portion restric... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6910219 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge includes: a cartridge body including a disc storage portion storing a disc, having first and second sides, therein so that the disc is rotatable there and that the first side is exposed and chucking and head opening formed on the bottom of the stora... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6880167 | Disk cartridge for engaging with a sensor member of a drive device The present invention relates to a disk cartridge, which can be accurately positioned with respect to a drive device for accessing a disk medium. The disk cartridge provided with a case rotatably accommodating a disk medium therein, an arcuate side wall which is dir... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6804823 | Protective cover for optically read digital disks A protective cover for protecting a read side of an optical disk, including a circumferential frame for receiving and engaging the optical disk and a shield. The frame includes a continuous end wall, an annular base extending radially inwardly from a lower edge of t... | 10/12/2004 |
