External unit for storage-medium storage device
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsHidetaka Kaneko, Osamu Omori, Yukio Katsuyama, Yoshio Kotaki
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Abstract
An external unit is externally attached to a storage-medium storage device. The external unit includes a verification unit that verifies whether a storage medium that is about to be inserted in a storage slot of the storage-medium storage device is legitimate, and an open/close unit that opens the storage slot so that the storage medium can be inserted in the storage slot only upon the verifying unit verifying that the storage medium is legitimate.
Claims5
An external unit that can be externally attached to a storage-medium storage device, wherein the storage-medium storage device includes a storage slot for inserting a storage medium and a storage mechanism for storing the storage medium inserted from the storage slot, the external unit comprising:
- a verification unit that verifies whether a storage medium that is about to be inserted in the storage slot of the storage-medium storage device is legitimate;
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- an open/close unit that opens the storage slot so that the storage medium can be inserted in the storage slot only upon the verifying unit verifying that the storage medium is legitimate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.