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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7360229 | Optical disc cartridge and apparatus having a disc fixing/releasing mechanism for recording or reproducing data Disclosed is an optical disc cartridge comprising: a casing having a disc inserting/opening part for inserting and taking out a disc at an upper surface thereof and having an access hole to which an optical pickup accesses at a lower surface thereof; a pair of shutt... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7290273 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge includes: a disc storage portion; first and second shutters provided on the bottom of the disc storage portion; and a rotational member interlocked with the shutters and having a disc supporting portion to support the disc thereon while the shutters... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7287265 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge housing an optical disk is provided, a rotation wheel is housed rotatably in a cartridge body and which houses the disk and has formed therein a second opening corresponding to a first opening and through which the housed disk is exposed to outside,... | 10/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7080731 | Disc package Packaging for an object such as a digital recording medium that is contained within a plastic molded tray that is mounted on a panel. The tray is molded with extensions from opposite edges of one surface of the tray. Each extension folds to form a peripheral wall al... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7082611 | Disk cartridge and disk drive apparatus A rotor is provided which is rotatably disposed between a first shell and a recording medium, in a containing space formed inside the first shell and a second shell. The rotor includes a first wall formed along the circumferential direction of the rotor, and a part ... | 07/25/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7051349 | Disc cartridge, disc recording medium unit and disc recorder and/or reproducer The present invention relates to a disk cartridge in which a disk-like recording medium such as an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk and a magnetic disk is accommodated within a disk compartment of a cartridge housing, a disk recording medium device in which the ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6980431 | Controlling device for controlling slot shutter A controlling device for controlling a slot shutter of a slot in a computer casing is provided for the user to operate easily and conveniently. The device includes a panel with the slot shutter, an operating button disposed on the panel and peripheral to the slot sh... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6912725 | Disc cartridge In a disc cartridge, when a shutter fitting portion disposed at the outside of a case is pressed, a shutter drawing portion is drawn to rotate an arcuate guide wall portion together with a shutter main body. The shutter drawing portion is swingable in the width dire... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6898795 | Disk drive unit A disk drive unit is provided that is capable of reasonably, smoothly opening/closing a shutter by rotation of an inner rotor. The disk drive unit is configured such that an inner rotor (4) is reasonably, smoothly rotated by sequentially engaging a shutter op... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6243356 | Screwing action playable compact disc case The case comprises two circular sections comprising a bottom portion that has a readable surface and sidewalls and a top portion that has grooves that mesh with complimentary grooves in the sidewalls of the bottom portion. Holes in the top portion of the ... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6125102 | Disc cartridge with removal protector member A disc cartridge having a casing designed to accommodate the disc and to allow the read-out and/or the recording of information while the disc is housed in the casing. The recording discs concerned may be of the type generally designated as "compact disc"... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6108299 | Disk cartridge and disk device using the same A disk cartridge system having different types of disk cartridges for use in a disk cartridge drive apparatus. A first disk cartridge includes a first case having a substantially rectangular shape with first, second, third and fourth edges, the first edge... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5768253 | Disc cartridge for accommodating recording discs A disc cartridge comprising a casing designed to accommodate the disc and to allow the read-out and/or the recording of information while the disc is housed in said casing. The recording discs concerned may be of the type generally designated as "compact ... | 06/16/1998 |
| 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 |
| 4928271 | Holder for discs of different diameters Holder has two opposed holding elements (5) with holding means (6) for holding a disc at its circumferential edge inside the holder. At least one holding element (5) can be moved out of a holding position by means of an adjusting element (4) to receive or... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4903256 | Card including rotatory system optical recording medium A card including a rotatory system optical recording medium, comprises a rotatory system optical recording medium, a case body having a holding space which holds said optical recording medium freely detachably and a protective cover which protects the sur... | 02/20/1990 |
| 4805770 | Cassette with tray ejection means Tray (1) for receiving and retaining a rigid circular information disc (4). Can be inserted into a storage cassette (28) and comprises a recess (3) and retaining means (7, 15, 16) for retaining the information disc (4) in the recess (3). The tray (1), whi... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4793480 | Storage container for a recording medium with a pivotally mounted tongue A storage container for a recording medium and related methods of manufacturing and assembling same are described. The storage container includes: a base; a recording medium holder having a compact disc clamp and being pivotally attached at a first end th... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4777631 | Loading system for a disc cartridge case housing a disc in a disc playback device In a disc playback device in which a disc cartridge case housing a disc is loaded in a disc cartridge case holder of a main body of the device and this holder is moved from a disc non-playback position to a disc playback position for playing back of the d... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4694448 | Disc case A disc case is constructed for receiving a disc on which information data are recorded and for supporting the disc rotatably in the disc case. The disc case can be set into a reproducing apparatus with the disc received in the disc case. The disc case rec... | 09/15/1987 |
