Disk cartridge and adapter
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshikazu Goto, Yukio Nishino, Kuniko Nakata, Shigeto Ueno, Hitoshi Higaki, Ichirou Kawamura
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Abstract
A disk cartridge of the present invention comprises a case body (101) having a disk-storage portion and an opening/closing cover (201) having a pair of disk holding members (202) that hold a disk (10) in its inplane direction. The accommodated disk (10) is loaded together with the opening/closing cover (201) into an adapter having compatibility with a large disk cartridge. Thus, information can be, for example, reproduced from the disk (10) in a drive unit designed for a large disk cartridge via the adapter. Moreover, a series of operations can be conducted without touching the disk directly.
Claims1
A disk cartridge comprising:
- a case body having an opening for ejecting a disk and a disk-storage portion provided continuously to the opening;
- an opening/closing cover having a pair of finger-like disk holding members that maintain the disk and positioning parts arranged with a predetermined distance from both surfaces of the disk for adjusting a position of the disk in a thickness direction of the disk, the positioning parts being provided at the ends of the pair of disk holding members and at a center portion of the opening/closing cover between the pair of finger-like disk holding members;
- wherein the opening/closing cover is accommodated in the disk-storage portion in a withdrawable manner, and the pair of disk holding members hold the disk in an inplane orientation when the opening/closing cover is withdrawn from the disk-storage portion;
- first locking means for fixing and holding the opening/closing cover to the case body at a position where the opening is covered by the opening/closing cover;
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- means for preventing erroneous insertion of the opening/closing cover into the case body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.