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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8108885 | Disk cartridge A disk cartridge includes: a pair of disk housing portions, housing a disk entirely when put together; a supporting base member with a disk housing rotating and supporting portion for rotating and supporting the housing portions to open or shut a window to the disk ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8010975 | Disc cartridge and photon mode optical information recording/reproducing apparatus A disc cartridge accommodating a photon mode optical information recording medium is provided with a disc case having an opening section, and a shutter movably disposed between a closing position to close the opening section and an opening position to open the openi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7673311 | Disc cartridge for storage of a disc A disc cartridge comprises a rotary member (25) that is held on first and second shutters in a disc storage unit in which a disc is stored with a first surface externally exposed from a disc opening and that is engaged with the first and second shutters so th... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7624407 | Photosensitive recording medium cartridge with movement of shutter limited by lid and step portion and method for producing the same A photosensitive recording medium cartridge comprising: a photosensitive recording medium; a cartridge body including a disc storage portion where the photosensitive recording medium is received rotatably, an opening portion formed in a side surface of the cartridge... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7603681 | Cartridge for miniature optical data storage disc A cartridge for an optical data storage disc includes a monolithic shell and a sheet metal cover plate. The shell includes lateral walls and a floor that together define a cavity that holds an optical data storage disc. The cover plate is attached to the shell, with... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7512961 | Disk cartridge, and recording and/or reproducing device A disk cartridge is provided which houses an optical disk rotatably. It includes a cartridge body having formed therein a head opening through which a part of the optical disk is exposed to outside, and a shutter member supported movably on the cartridge body to unc... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7493635 | Recording medium drive device, electronic equipment having the recording medium drive device, and recording medium cartridge To prevent erroneous insertion of a recording medium cartridge into a holder in a recording medium drive device simply and without causing a sharp rise of price of the recording medium drive device. A shutter opening piece (32c) for sliding a sh... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7444654 | Optical disc cartridge casing providing for easy disc insertion/removal An optical disc cartridge of the present invention includes: a casing provided with a disc inserting/opening part for inserting/taking out a disc thereinto/therefrom at an upper surface thereof and an access hole which an optical pickup approaches at a lower surface... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7359145 | Non-tape data storage cartridge with handling feature and associated cartridge drive A data storage cartridge including a non-tape storage medium, and a housing maintaining the non-tape storage medium. The housing defines a plurality of external handling features for interaction with at least one of a cartridge storage unit and a cartridge drive to ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7346916 | Disk cartridge and device to which disk cartridge is inserted A disk cartridge, which is easy to handle, is provided. The disk cartridge includes a cartridge main body having: an opening facing a disk; and a shutter for opening and closing the opening. A part of the cartridge main body is formed in an approximately semicircula... | 03/18/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7343612 | Disc cartridge A cartridge main body formed by aligning and bonding a pair of an upper half and a lower half rotatably contains an optical disc. The cartridge main body is provided on one of the opposite surfaces thereof with a central aperture, which is a drive aperture for recei... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343613 | Disc cartridge having disc access opening A disc cartridge is constructed so that disc access to a recording medium enclosed within the disc cartridge via an opening in the cartridge case is restricted by a disc tray and a shutter member disposed inside the cartridge case. The shutter member is rotatably at... | 03/11/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7313800 | Disk centering system A disk centering system includes: a disk mount portion having a disk mount surface on which a disk form recording medium is to be mounted, the disk mount portion being provided with a predetermined reference point; and at least three disk centering portions for pres... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7284254 | Disk cartridge and disk recording medium device having shutter members 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 ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7278151 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge consisting of an upper shell and a lower shell and an inner rotor rotatably arranged between them for housing an optical disc. The lower shell has a bottom opening that is opened and closed by shutter members, the optical disc is upwardly supported ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7251104 | Recording medium cartridge A recording medium cartridge comprises an information recording medium, an inner rotor, and a pair of shutter members that are piled and accommodated in a cartridge casing. When the inner rotor is rotated, the opening part of the cartridge casing is opened and close... | 07/31/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7237247 | Disc cartridge having deeper concave portion continuous with shutter opener/closer groove A disc cartridge includes a cartridge body, a first shutter, a second shutter, and a rotational member. 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 di... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7228554 | 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 | 06/05/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7188351 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge includes a cartridge body unit having an optical disc (2) rotatably housed in it and provided with a recording and/or reproducing aperture (13) for exposing a part of the disc to outside, and a shutter member (15) slidably carri... | 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 |
| 7146625 | Disc cartridge and disc drive using the same A disc cartridge includes a case accommodating a disc and having an aperture hole formed on a first surface of the case so that a recording/reproducing apparatus access a recording surface of the disc, and an open hole formed on a second surface to be open to an out... | 12/05/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7123446 | Removable cartridge recording device incorporating antiferromagnetically coupled rigid magnetic media A removable magnetic data storage cartridges incorporates antiferromagnetically coupled (AFC) media and may be used with a data drive to push the capacity point of removable hard platter based magnetic storage to 35 GB for a single platter 2.5″ form factor product... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7123445 | Data storage cartridge with hard drive and door A data storage cartridge including a housing, a door, and a hard drive. The housing defines an access window. The door is coupled to the housing and configured to selectively cover the access window. The hard drive is maintained within the housing and adapted to be ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114166 | Disc cartridge A disc cartridge includes a cartridge main body composed of a lower shell, in which a first opening that enables disc access for a disc-like recording medium in a housed state is formed, and an upper shell, a disc tray that is rotatably provided inside the cartridge... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7103902 | Information recording medium cartridge having a pair of movable shutter members A recording medium cartridge includes a disc, an inner rotor and a shutter in a shell. Torque is applied to the inner rotor by a coil spring to drive the shutter so as to maintain the closed state of an opening part provided in the shell. When the recording medium c... | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7031113 | Method and apparatus for protecting a magnetic disk within a cartridge from electrostatic charge An apparatus includes a removable cartridge having an information storage medium, and having a housing with the information storage medium movably supported therein. The housing is configured so that, if electrostatic charge is present on an exterior surface of the ... | 04/18/2006 |
