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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7921439 | Data storage means Apparatus in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present invention includes a data storage cartridge and/or a receiver configured to receive the cartridge in facilitation of data transfer to and/or from the cartridge. The cartridge and the receiver each i... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7748013 | Case member and cartridge for storing an information medium A cartridge includes a case member (500) and a shutter member (100). The case member (500) includes a upper case section (505) and a lowercase section (506). A step portion (507) is formed at a boundary (508) between ... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7647602 | Disc device A disc device includes: a casing including: a casing body that has a housing section of a disc 4 and houses a device body including a drive unit for rotating the disc 4; and a cover section rotatably supported on the casing body for closing the housing... | 01/12/2010 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7337454 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge of the present invention is provided with a protrusion section on a shutter sliding surface so as to surround at least part of an opening. Moreover, a shutter for opening and closing the opening is provided with a shielding section for covering the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334237 | Disc drive apparatus A disc drive apparatus according to the present invention has a tray formed of an optically transparent material and has disc receiving portions. The tray is movable in an ejection and a retraction direction with respect to a casing. A light source is mounted inside... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7322037 | Structure of optical disc cartridge A disc cartridge can prevent a disc from being damaged, and smoothly enable a disc rotation, by forming a protruding supporting member to have a predetermined height from an inner surface of a casing receiving the disc, and by preventing the disc from interfering wi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7290268 | Disc drive apparatus with tray formed of optically transparent material A disc drive apparatus according to the present invention has a tray formed of an optically transparent material and has disc receiving portions. The tray is movable in an ejection and a retraction direction with respect to a casing. A light source is mounted inside... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281253 | Recording or reproducing apparatus to which recording medium is detachably attached A tray for transporting a recording medium toward or away from a connector is provided with an auxiliary tray coupled thereto, and the auxiliary tray has a pusher for pressing the recording medium as placed on the tray against the connector. A chassis is provided wi... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7266831 | Insertion type compact disc case Disclosed herein is an insertion type compact disc case which is designed to simultaneously push forward opposite sides of a rear periphery of a disc, received in a case body, thereby securing safe and accurate discharge of the disc. The disc case comprises a case b... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263706 | Disk cartridge and disk player using the same A disk cartridge includes a case accommodating a disk, a cover installed at the case to be capable of being open and shut and having a hole formed thereon to be open to an outside of the cover, a shutter installed under the disk in the case to be capable of moving t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7243361 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge including lower and upper shells, a rotation wheel housed rotatably in the cartridge and which houses a disk and has formed therein a second opening, corresponding to a first read/write opening in the lower shell, through which the housed disk is ex... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7237248 | Disk cartridge A slidable rotation of the inner shell to the outer shell causes slidable rotation of the shutter members to open or close the opening portion of the outer shell, and the disk cartridge is inserted into an insertion opening of the disk drive apparatus so that the di... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7230792 | Media selection systems and methods having a coupler for slidably engaging a storage medium in a storage system Media selection systems and methods. A media selection system may comprise a coupler mounted on a plunge assembly of a cartridge retrieving device. The coupler slidably engages a storage medium as the cartridge retrieving device moves relative to the storage medium.... | 06/12/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7210156 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge storing an optical disk includes a cartridge main body including a lower shell formed with a first opening and an upper shell abutted against the lower shell, a rotation wheel rotatably stored in the cartridge main body and storing the optical disk ... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7178885 | Hand-held compact disc storage, single-hand deployment and retrieval device A hand-held disc storage, deployment and retrieval device includes a housing defining an interior cavity adapted to store a media disc therein. A manually-actuated slider is disposed within the interior cavity and movable along guide tracks formed in the housing bet... | 02/20/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7159229 | Disk cartridge Four positioning holes or grooves of the first to the fourth positioning portions are formed on a shell as positioning portions to a disk drive apparatus. When two directions perpendicular to the thickness direction of a disk-shaped recording medium are designated a... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7131131 | Disc cartridge having a disc window for viewing a disc A disc cartridge according to the present invention includes a cartridge body and a shutter. 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, having ... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127732 | Disc cartridge including an inner shell formed by severing a molded portion and a flanged thin-walled section The present invention is related to a disc cartridge in which an optical disc, an inner shell and shutter members are housed in a main cartridge body unit, formed by abutting and combining upper and lower shells and in which the inner shell is run in rotation to cau... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7124422 | Disk accommodation case having removal member To make it possible to keep a disk-like recording medium accommodated in a case under a stable state without shaking and to easily take it out, a receiving table on which a center portion of a disk is put is so formed at a base center of a main body as to protrude f... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7103898 | Method for producing inner shell for a disc cartridge A method for producing an inner shell used for a disc cartridge in which an optical disc, an inner shell and shutter members are housed in a main cartridge body unit. The inner shell provided in the main cartridge body unit includes a first molded portion, provided ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103901 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge includes a cartridge body, first and second shutters, and a rotational member. The cartridge body includes a disc storage portion to store a disc in a rotatable state, a chucking hole provided on the bottom of the disc storage portion so as to get t... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103900 | Disc cartridge with crank-shaped dust intrusion prohibiting unit The present invention is relative to a disc cartridge in which an optical disc (3), an inner shell (4) and shutter members (5a), (5b) are housed in a main cartridge body unit (2), formed by abutting and combining uppe... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7103899 | Disk cartridge which accommodates an information-recording disk A disk cartridge, which is compact, which requires a small number of parts, and which is easily assembled, is provided. The disk cartridge of the present invention comprises an upper case and a lower case. Each of the upper case and the lower case is formed to be su... | 09/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7057854 | Disk cartridge having a dust-proof shutter A disk cartridge housing in which a disk compartment is formed by combining an upper shell and a lower shell. The cartridge has an opening portion which overlaps with a shutter member to expose a part of the disk compartment. A convex rib and a concave groove arrang... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7032234 | Cartridge and drive unit for preventing erroneous insertions of the cartridge A cartridge and a drive unit that drives a cartridge and has an insertion opening into which the cartridge is inserted are provided. The drive unit includes a shutter which opens and closes the insertion opening, and a mechanism for locking a close state of the shut... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 7007292 | Disk cartridge device operative with disk cartridges of different sizes and height A disk cartridge device includes first and second disk cartridges of different sizes for housing therein disks of different disk diameters and a cassette compartment onto which the first and second disk cartridges are selectively loaded, the cassette compartment inc... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6980397 | Disk cartridge having a housing with an aperture for holding a vibration damping member In order to improve quality of recording/reproducing signals by preventing degradation of the quality of the recording/reproducing signals due to vibration transmitted from the exterior of a disk cartridge which contains a discoid medium, the disk cartridge performs... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6948180 | Disk cartridge which accommodates an information-recording disk A disk cartridge, which is compact, which requires a small number of parts, and which is easily assembled, is provided. The disk cartridge of the present invention comprises an upper case and a lower case. Each of the upper case and the lower case is formed to be su... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6940806 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge for receiving a disc includes a case which accommodates the disc and at least one centering spring which prevents deviation of the disc in the case. Thus, a gap in which the disc moves in the disc cartridge is restricted so as to reduce a length in ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6907614 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge having a shutter constructed slidable in both rightward and leftward directions. One surface of a cartridge casing is provided with a first guide groove formed between an upper surface of a front end wall of one half shell and a lower surface of a f... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6874159 | Cartridge for containing recording medium A cartridge for encasing optical discs of different diameters and thus permitting to load bare optical discs of different diameters into a disc cartridge-dedicated recorder/player. It includes a cartridge body (2) formed from an upper shell (6) having ... | 03/29/2005 |
