External storage device
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorHiroshi Iwasaki
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Abstract
An external storage device includes an external storage device main includes a thin type external storage device module formed into a package sealed on one side from a storage element containing at least one non-volatile semiconductor memory device, and a flat type external connection terminal connected to an input/output terminal of the storage element and led and exposed to a backside of the module, and an external storage device unit that includes an external storage device main detachable section for engaging, insertedly attaching, and detaching the external storage device main, a resilient contact electrically connecting to the external connection terminal of the external storage device main, and at least a part of a circuit for driving and controlling the storage element.
Claims4
An external storage device comprising:
- an external storage device main including,
- a thin type external storage device module comprising a storage element containing at least one non-volatile semiconductor memory device into which data to be stored is serially input and which serially outputs data and which is formed into a package resin sealed on one side, and
- a flat type external connection terminal connected to an input/output terminal of the storage element and led and exposed to a backside of the thin type external storage device module;
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- an external storage device unit including,
- means for engaging, insertedly and rigidly attaching and detaching the external storage device main,
- a resilient contact electrically connecting to the flat type external connection terminal of the external storage device main, and
- means for driving and controlling the storage element.
An external storage device comprising:
- an external storage device main including,
- a thin type external storage device module comprising a substrate having a first face and a second face,
- a storage element containing at least one non-volatile semiconductor memory into which data to be stored is serially input and which serially outputs data and has input/output terminals formed on the second face of the substrate, wherein the storage element is resin sealed on one side in the first face of the substrate,
- a flat type external connection terminal connected to the input/output terminals of the storage element, and
- a card shaped supporter having a surface and having a recess for placement of the thin type external storage device module so that the second face of the substrate is exposed to the surface of the supporter and so that a surface of the flat external connection terminal is substantially flush with the surface of the supporter;
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- an external storage device unit including,
- means for engaging, insertedly and rigidly attaching and detaching the external storage device main,
- a resilient contact electrically connecting to the flat type external connection terminal of the external storage device main, and
- means for driving and controlling the storage element, so that the storage element serially inputs data to be stored and serially outputs data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.