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US 6,288,869 B1Granted
Structure for preventing misinsertion of disc cartridges
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorHideaki Kumagai
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Abstract
A disc cartridge includes a shell having one side face and an opening, a shutter mounted to the shell to be slidable along the one side face between a first position where the shutter closes the opening and a second position where the shutter opens the opening, and a misinsertion preventing portion arranged with the one side face of the shell in a portion thereof out of a slide area of the shutter and having a recess for allowing introduction of a misinsertion preventing member of a drive.
Claims3
A system, comprising:
- a first cartridge with a recording medium of a first format, said first cartridge having an anti-misinsertion portion including an inclination of a corner of a front end face of said first cartridge;
- a first drive for said first cartridge, the first drive including a cartridge holder for holding and vertically moving the first cartridge between a first position and a second position;
- a second cartridge with a recording medium of a second format, the second drive including a grooved anti-misinsertion portion of a front end face of said second cartridge;
- a second drive for said first cartridge and said second cartridge, the second drive including a cartridge holder for holding and vertically moving either of the first cartridge and the second cartridge between a third position and a fourth position;
- wherein said second drive includes anti-misinsertion means for cooperating with said first anti-misinsertion portion to allow loading of said first cartridge into said second drive when said first cartridge is inserted in a normal position and for cooperating with said grooved anti-misinsertion portion of said second cartridge to allow loading of said second cartridge into said second drive when said second cartridge is inserted in a normal position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.