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US 2002/0161948 A1Published application
Disk with disk drive
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha OPTROM
InventorsTakashi Shigetomi, Tetsuo Saito, Tsunematsu Komaki
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Abstract
The present invention provides a drive-integrated disk (an intelligent disk (ID)) having an electronic circuit controlling an external system as a peripheral. The drive-integrated disk comprises a disk block for storing information, a disk drive unit for accessing to the disk block, an electronic circuit block which connects to the disk drive unit via a bus, and a data input/output terminal group for connecting the electronic circuit block to an external apparatus, and is formed in a card shape.
Claims4
A drive-integrated disk comprises:
- a disk block for storing information;
- a disk drive unit for accessing to the disk block;
- an electronic circuit block which connects to the disk drive unit via a bus;
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- a data input/output terminal group for connecting the electronic circuit block to an external apparatus.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.