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US 6,643,125 B2Granted
Card-shaped storage medium and information processing apparatus having guide portion for the same
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHitoshi Nabetani, Yoshihiro Uchino
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus which employs a card-shaped storage medium includes guide portions having a plurality of temporarily fastening portions for temporarily fastening the card-shaped storage medium at their respective locations, one of which is a first location at which the card-shaped storage medium is electrically connected to the apparatus and another of which is a second location at which the card-shaped storage medium is not electrically connected to the information processing apparatus.
Claims5
An electronic device using a memory card recorded information thereon, comprising:
- a mounting portion in which said memory card is detachably mounted;
- a connector portion provided in said mounting portion and electrically connected to an
- electrode portion of said memory card mounted in said mounting portion;
- and
- engaging means provided in said mounting portion to elastically engage to said memory card to position at first location where said memory card is completely mounted and electrically connected to said connector portion and to position at a second location where said memory card is physically and electrically separated from said connector portion to regulate said memory card in an inserting direction and projected from said mounting portion by a predetermined amount.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.