US 2001/0033545 A1Published application

Disc cartridge

AssigneeHitachi, Ltd.

InventorsTomomi Okamoto, Kyuichiro Nagai, Atsushi Inoue, Hiroaki Ono

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Abstract

A disc cartridge for receiving a disc-shaped recording medium therewithin which is capable of being inserted and removed from the disc cartridge. The disc cartridge has an insertion and removal port opening and closing member which is moved from the disc cartridge when taking out the recording medium. The insertion and removal port opening and closing member holds the disc-shaped recording medium and can take out the disc together with the insertion and removal port opening and closing member from a disc cartridge main body when taking out the insertion and removal port opening and closing member from the disc cartridge. The disc cartridge has a locking member and a locking cancellation preventing member which prevents said locking member from moving for canceling the locking and which serves as a portion for recognizing a history of insertion and removal of the recording medium.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A disc cartridge for receiving a disc-shaped recording medium therewithin, comprising:

said recording medium being capable of being inserted and removed from said disc cartridge, said disc cartridge having an insertion and removal port opening and closing member;
and
said disc insertion and removal port opening and closing member being moved from said disc cartridge when taking out said recording medium,
wherein said insertion and removal port opening and closing member holds said disc-shaped recording medium and can take out the disc together with said insertion and removal port opening and closing member from a disc cartridge main body when taking out said insertion and removal port opening and closing member from the disc cartridge,
wherein said disc cartridge has a locking member for locking said insertion and removal port opening and closing member,
wherein at least a part of a locking cancellation preventing member which prevents said locking member from moving for canceling the locking is arranged on a moving path along which the locking member moves in an inward direction of the disc cartridge for canceling the locking, and
wherein said locking cancellation preventing member is a portion for recognizing a history of insertion and removal of said recording medium.

4 more elements

A disc cartridge for receiving a disc-shaped recording medium therewithin, comprising:

said recording medium being capable of being inserted and removed from said disc cartridge, said disc cartridge having an insertion and removal port opening and closing member;
and
said disc insertion and removal port opening and closing member being moved from said disc cartridge when taking out said recording medium,
wherein said insertion and removal port opening and closing member has a disc holding member, said disc holding member holding said disc-shaped recording medium and capable of taking out the disc together with said insertion and removal port opening and closing member from a disc cartridge main body when taking out said insertion and removal port opening and closing member from the disc cartridge,
wherein said disc cartridge has a locking member for locking said insertion and removal port opening and closing member,
wherein at least a part of a locking cancellation preventing member which prevents said locking member from moving for canceling the locking is arranged on a moving path along which the locking member moves in an inward direction of the disc cartridge for canceling the locking, and
wherein said locking cancellation preventing member is a portion for recognizing a history of insertion and removal of said recording medium.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/881,683Filed 18 Jun 2001
Priority: JP 10-11811128 Apr 1998
Published: 25 Oct 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification2 codes

G11B 23/0317
Details: containers with interchangeable record carriers
G11B
Information storage based on relative movement between record carrier and transducer

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